Meanwhile...

Meanwhile, he (S) sat on a bench,

Umme Salama added: "I was in my room performing prayers when the

Arch-Angel Gabriel revealed: "O Allah, these are my Family and Kin;

therefore, remove all abomination from them and make them pure and

At hearing that, I looked in the house and said: "Am I one of them, O

Apostle of Allah?' Moreover, Tirmadhi reported in his "Sahih" that

Allah's Messenger since the time this verse was revealed and for six

months thereafter, stood by Fatima's house (door) and said:

"(Time for) prayers Ahlul-Bayt; Allah only wished to remove all

abomination from you and make you pure and spotless."

narrated a tradition similar to the one already mentioned by Wahidi;

but he added: Some poets said the following in this regard: Surely

Muhammad and his successor and Their two sons, and his virtuous

and pure daughter; are the people of the cloak who in adhering to

Salama, Aisha, Abu Sa'id Al- Khudari, Zeid Ibn Arqam, Ibn Abbas,

Dahak Ibn Muzahim, Abu al-Hamra, Omar Ibn Salama and others in

and Al-Hussain, when the verse 'And Allah only wishes to remove... "

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He then said: "By Allah, these are my Ahlul-Bayt, therefore remove all

abomination from them pure and spotless."

revealed in regard to the purified five (the Prophet, Ali, Fatima,