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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books On The Khilafah Of ‘Ali Over Abu Bakr Hadith Al-Manzilah, ‘Ali: The Wazir of Muhammad =================================================== Although Allah has informed us of several ranks which Prophet Harun, ‘alaihi al-salam , held in relation to Prophet Musa, ‘alaihi al-salam , we will be focusing exclusively on one of them only in this research: the wizarah .

Musa had supplicated to Allah in this manner, as narrated by the Qur’an: قال رب اشرح لي صدري ويسر لي أمري واحلل عقدة من لساني يفقهوا قولي واجعل لي وزيرا من أهلي هارون أخي He (Musa) said, “O my Lord! Open for me my chest, and make my assignment easy for me. And make loose the knot from my tongue, that they understand my speech.

And appoint for me a wazir from my family, Harun my brother .[^1] Expectedly, his du’a was granted: ولقد آتينا موسى الكتاب وجعلنا معه أخاه هارون وزيرا And indeed We gave Musa the Book, and We appointed his brother Harun as a wazir .[^2] Therefore, Harun was undoubtedly the wazir of Musa, by divine appointment . This obviously confirms a principle: the appointment of the wazir of each prophet was only in the Hand of Allah.

If it had been otherwise, Musa would have simply handpicked his brother for the post without making any du’a . This fact, in turn, reveals that being the wazir of a prophet was an extremely high rank in the Sight of Allah, so high that He personally chose to make the appointments. So, who was a wazir ? What were his functions? The Book of Allah has given us an example: Haman, the wazir of Fir’aun.

The Qur’an states: إن فرعون وهامان وجنودهما كانوا خاطئين Verily, Fir’aun and Haman and their soldiers were people who made mistakes.[^3] Imam al-Tabari (d. 310 H) starts the identifications: وقال فرعون … لوزيره وزير السوء هامان Fir’aun said … to his wazir , the evil wazir , Haman .[^4] Al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir (d.

774 H) follows his footsteps here: {وهامان} وهو: وزيره في مملكته {and Haman}, he was his wazir in his kingdom.[^5] Shaykh al-Zuhayli also explains the names: فرعون ملك مصر وهامان وزير فرعون Fir’aun was the king of Egypt and Haman was the wazir of Fir’aun .[^6] Shaykh al-Maraghi also states: وهامان وزير فرعون Haman was the wazir of Fir’aun.[^7] Shaykh ‘Ali Shiri, the annotator of Tarikh Dimashq , has the same submission: هامان وزير فرعون Haman was the wazir of Fir’aun.[^8] Imam al-Tha’alabi (d.