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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Abu Talib (a.s) The Sayings of Ahlul Bayt (2) If we studied the biographies of Ahlul Bayt, we would find that each of them had confuted the accusations had been ascribed to Abu Talib. They declared the reasons behind those accusations, which distorted the faith of Abu Talib and made him one of the unbelievers.

Whenever the lies and the fabrications increased, a word of rightness came out to scatter all that confusion and a ray of truthfulness shone to clarify the darkness of that unfairness and evil wills. 1. One of those, who had heard of the lies fabricated ____________ 1 Waq'at Siffeen, p.597. 2 Ahlul Bayt: the Prophet's progeny. about the faith of Abu Talib, asked Imam Sajjad -Ali bin al-Husayn- (s) (1) about those accusations.

Imam Sajjad said: "Yes!" The asker repeated his question to be certain about the source of those accusations and to know whether they were true or not: "There are some people here pretending that Abu Talib was unbeliever!" Imam Sajjad sighed painfully and cried loudly: "How wonder! Did they accuse Abu Talib (of being unbeliever) or they accused the Prophet (s), who had been ordered by Allah not to let a believing woman keep on living with an unbelieving man as his wife in many Quranic verses?

No one doubted that Fatima bint Assad (2) was one of the first faithful women. She had been still Abu Talib's wife until he died." (3) The saying of Imam Sajjad showed that whoever thought that Abu Talib was unbeliever, accused the Prophet (s) of contradicting the orders of the holy Quran or being indifferent to apply them to his uncle.

No one at all could deny the true faithfulness of Fatima bint Assad, Abu Talib's wife and Ali's mother, and no one could say that the Prophet (s) had annulled the marriage of Abu Talib and his wife Fatima. If Abu Talib was unfaithful, then the Prophet (s) had to separate between him and his faithful wife. As long as Fatima bint Assad had been still as Abu Talib's wife until he died, so whoever said that Abu Talib was unfaithful, definitely would accuse the Prophet (s) of disobeying his God.

Hence whoever accused Abu Talib of being unfaithful would impudently accuse the heart of ____________ 1 Imam Sajjad was the fourth imam of the Shia. His full name was Ali bin al-Husayn bin Ali bin Abu Talib. 2 She was Imam Ali's mother. Bint means the daughter of.