And Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh reported:
The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:
“The people follow Quraysh in both good and evil.”] (1).
In Sahih al-Bukhārī, Muʿāwiya [may Allah be pleased with him] (2) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—say:
“Indeed, this authority rests with Quraysh. No one opposes them without Allah casting him down upon his face, so long as they uphold the religion.” (3).
[He recorded it in the chapter “The Rulers from Quraysh.”] (4)
[Section Continuing Ibn Taymiyya’s Response to Ibn al-Mutahhar’s Statements on the Imamate According to Ahl al-Sunnah]
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As for the following claim he makes about them (5): “Whenever anyone pledges allegiance to a man of Quraysh, that man’s imamate is thereby established and obedience to him becomes obligatory for everyone, provided his true character is unknown, even if he is (6) at the very height of wickedness (7), unbelief, and hypocrisy,”
(1) The passage between square brackets is omitted from (N) and (M). The hadith is narrated with this wording from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh—may Allah be pleased with him—in Muslim, 3:1451, Book of Government, chapter “The People Follow Quraysh,” hadith no. 3; and al-Musnad, al-Halabī ed., 3:331, 379, 383.
(2) “May Allah be pleased with him” is an addition in (A) and (B).
(3) The hadith is narrated from Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān—may Allah be pleased with him—in Sahih al-Bukhārī, 4:179, Book of Virtues, chapter “The Virtues of Quraysh”; 9:62, Book of Legal Rulings, chapter “The Rulers Are from Quraysh”; and Sunan al-Dārimī, 2:242, Book of Military Expeditions, chapter “Leadership among Quraysh.”
(4) The passage between square brackets is omitted from (N) and (M).
(5) “From them” is an addition in (A) and (B).
(6) “Even if he were” is omitted from (N), (M), and (W).
(7) (N) and (M) read: fī al-fusūq (“in acts of disobedience”); (W) reads: fī al-fisq (“in disobedience”).