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Chapter: The Shia when al-Qa’im appears د بن هوذة قال: حدثنا إبراهي٠بن إسحاق النهاوندي، قال: حدثنا عبد الله بن ح٠اد الأنصاري، عن صباح ال٠زني، عن الحارث بن حصيرة، عن الأصبغ بن نباتة، قال: س٠عت علياً يقول: كأني بالعج٠ون الناس القرآن ك٠ا أنزل؟ فقال: لا، ٠ا ترك أبو لهب إلاّ إزراءً على رسول الله لأنّه ع٠(5) Abu Sulayman Ahmad bin Hawtah narrated from Ibraheem bin Iss’haq an-Nahawandi from Abdullah bin Hammad al-Ansari from Sabah al-Muzni from al-Harith bin Haseera that al-Asbagh bin Nubata who said: “I heard Ali (AS) saying: “It's as if I see non-Arabs setting up their pavilions in the mosque of Kufa and teaching people the Qur’an as it has been revealed!” I said: “O Amirul Mo’mineen, is the Qur’an not as it has been revealed?” He said: “No, it is not.

The names of seventy ones of Quraysh have been removed from it. The name of Abu Lahab has been left (in the Qur’an) just to remind the Messenger of Allah (sw) of something because he is his uncle.”