Huquq Al al-Bayt - Ibn Taimiya - (45)

Huquq Al al-BaytIbn Taimiya

with the passage of time. It was one of the beauties of Islam that the very person who endured that calamity—and upon whom it first descended—was the one who narrated this ḥadith. There is no doubt that Allah ordained this as an honor for al-Ḥusayn (may Allah be pleased with him), raising his rank and station with Him, granting him the stations of the martyrs and reuniting him with the members of his household who had already been tested with many kinds of trials. Ḥasan and Ḥusayn had not faced tribulations on the scale of those borne by their grandfather, their mother, and their uncle, for they were born in the glory days of Islam and were reared in the laps of the believers. Allah therefore perfected His favor upon them through martyrdom—one by poison and the other by the sword—because with Allah there are lofty degrees in His abode of honor that can only be attained by those who are tried. As the Prophet ﷺ was asked, “Which people are tried most severely?” He replied, “The prophets, then the righteous, then those nearest to them, then those nearest. A person is tested in proportion to the strength of his religion: if his religion is firm, his trial is increased; if his religion is weak, it is lightened for him. The believer continues to be tried until he walks upon the earth free of sin.” (1)

Anyone who assisted in his killing or approved of it has thereby doomed himself. What Allah has legislated for the believers, when calamity strikes no matter how great, is that they say: “Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we shall return.” (2)

Al-Shāfiʿī relates in his Musnad that when the Prophet ﷺ passed away and his family were stricken by the calamity that befell them, they heard a voice saying: “O family of the Messenger of Allah! With Allah there is consolation for every calamity, compensation for every loss, and recovery for everything missed. Put your trust in Allah alone, place your hopes in Him; the truly afflicted one is he who is deprived of the reward…” They believed that it was al-Khidr who had come to offer them condolences for the Prophet ﷺ.

(1) This hadith is reported by al-Tirmidhi in the Book of Zuhd, chap. 57; by Ibn Majah in the Sunan, Book of Tribulations, chap. 23; by al-Darimi in his Musnad, Book of Heart-Softening Reports, chap. 67; and by Imam Ahmad in the Musnad, 1:172, 174, 180, 185. (2) Surah al-Baqara, verse 156.

العهد, فكان من محاسن الإسلام أن روى هذا الحديث صاحب المصيبة والمصاب به أولا ولا ريب أن ذلك فعله الله كرامة للحسين ﵁, ورفعا لدرجته ومنزلته عند الله, تبليغا له منازل الشهداء, وإلحاقا له بأهل بيته الذين ابتلوا بأصناف البلاء, ولم يكن الحسن والحسين حصل لهما من الابتلاء ما حصل لجدهما ولأمهما وعمهما, لأنهما ولدا في عز الإسلام, تربيا في حجور المؤمنين, فأتم الله نعمته عليهما بالشهادة, أحدهما مسموما, والآخر مقتولا, لأن الله عنده من المنازل العالية في دار كرامته ما لا ينالها إلا أهل البلاء كما قال النبي ﷺ وقد سئل: أي الناس بلاء؟ فقال: "الأنبياء ثم الصالحون ثم الأمثل فالأمثل, وابتلى الرجل حسب دينه, فإن كان في دينه صلابة زيد في بلائه, وإن كان في دينه رقة خفف عنه وما يزال البلاء بالمؤمن حتى يمشي على الأرض وليس خطيئة" ١. وشقي بقتله من أعان عله, أو رضي به, فالذي شرعه الله للمؤمنين عند الإصابة بالمصائب وإن عظمت أن يقولوا: ﴿إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ﴾ ٢. وقد روى الشافعي في مسنده أن النبي ﷺ لما مات, وأصاب أهل بيته من المصيبة ما أصابهم, سمعوا قائلا يقول: "يا آل بيت رسول الله, إن في الله عزاء من كل مصيبة, وخلفا من كل هالك, ودركا من كل فائت, فبالله فثقوا, وإياه فارجوا المصاب من حرم الثواب ... ". فكانوا يرونه الخضر جاء يعزيهم بالنبي ﷺ.

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