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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Abu Talib (a.s) The Second and the Third Verses (It is not (fit) for the Prophet and those who believe that they should ask forgiveness for the polytheists, even though they should be near relatives, after it has become clear to them that they are inmates of the flaming fire) 9:113. (Surely you cannot guide whom you love, but Allah guides whom He pleases, and He knows best the followers of the right way) 28:56.

We would like first to quote the fabricated traditions that distorted the meaning of these verses then to discuss the source of the traditions and to uncover the reality of the narrators one after the other. Iss~haq bin Ibraheem said that Abdur Razaq told him from Mu'ammar from az-Zuhri from Sa'eed bin al-Mussayyab that his father had said: "When Abu Talib was dying, the Prophet (s) came to him while Abu Jahl and Abdullah bin Abu Umayya were sitting near him.

The Prophet (s) said to Abu Talib: "O uncle! Say there is no god but Allah so that I will intercede with Allah for you by it!" Abu Jahl and Abdullah bin Abu Umayya said: "O Abu Talib!

Do you deny the religion of Abdul Muttalib?" The Prophet (s) said: "I will pray Allah to forgive you as long as I am not forbidden from it." Then this verse was revealed to the Prophet (s): (It is not (fit) for the Prophet and those who believe that they should ask forgiveness for the polytheists ...)" (1) From Abul Yaman, from Shu'ayb, from az-Zuhri, from Sa'eed bin al-Mussayab from his father: "When Abu Talib was dying, the Prophet (s) came to him.

He found Abu Jahl and Abdullah bin Abu Umayya bin al-Mugheera sitting near him. The Prophet (s) said: "O uncle!

Say there is no god but Allah so that I will intercede with Allah for you by this word." Abu Jahl and Abdullah bin Abu Umayya said (to Abu Talib): "Do you deny the religion of Abdul Muttalib?" The Prophet (s) kept on asking his uncle to say that and those two men repeated their saying until Abu Talib said, and it was the last word he had said before his death: "On the religion of Abdul Muttalib" and he refused to say that that there was no god but Allah. The Prophet (s) said: "By Allah!

I will pray Allah to forgive you as long as I am not forbidden from it." Then Allah revealed to the Prophet (s): (It is not (fit) for ____________ 1 Al-Bukhari's Sahih, vol.2 p.201, vol.3 p.87. the Prophet and those who believe that they should ask forgiveness for the polytheists ...).