1345 H) about the hadith ...
1345 H) about the hadith : وقد تتبع ابن عساكر طرقه في جزء فبلغ عدد الصحابة فيه نيفا عشرين وفي شرح الرسالة للشيخ جسوس رحمه الله ما نصه وحديث أنت مني بمنزلة هارون من موسى متواتر جاء عن نيف وعشرين صحابيا Ibn Asakir investigated its chains in a volume, and the number of the Sahabah who narrated it (in his research) reached more than twenty. In Sharh al-Risalah of Shaykh Jasus, may Allah be merciful to him, he states: “ And the hadith ‘You are to me of the status of Harun to Musa’ is mutawatir .
It has been narrated by more than twenty Sahabah.”[^5] So, does Shaykh Ibn Taymiyyah accept that Amir al-Muminin, ‘alaihi al-salam , was to , sallallahu ‘alaihi wa alihi , of the status of Prophet Harun, ‘alaihi al-salam , to Prophet Musa, ‘alaihi al-salam ? Of course, he does!
However, he has limited the circumstance and the scope to just a one-off event: كان النبي صلى الله عليه و سلم قال له ذلك في غزوة تبوك وكان صلى الله عليه و سلم كلما سافر في غزوة أو عمرة أو حج يستخلف على المدينة بعض الصحابة....
the hadith **) to him (i.e. ‘Ali) during the Battle of Tabuk**. Meanwhile, whenever he (the Prophet) made a journey for battle, or for ‘Umrah or Hajj , he used to make one of the Sahabah his khalifah over Madinah.... In summary, it is well-known that he (the Prophet) never left Madinah without appointing a khalifah over it . Muslims have mentioned those whom he appointed as khalifahs .
He made journeys out of Madinah during two ‘Umrahs – ‘Umrah al-Hudaybiyyah and ‘Umrah al-Qadha – and during the Farewell Hajj , as well as in more than twenty battles. On all of them (i.e.