Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (4/20)

Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

and a child born of fornication” (1).

The same applies to Alī: the former (2) say, “He (3) is God,” while the latter say, “He is an unbeliever and a wrongdoer.”

The fifth response:

It may be said: Alī [ibn Abī Tālib—may Allah be pleased with him—] (4), al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Alī ibn al-Husayn, his son Muhammad, and Jafar ibn Muhammad have well-established merits and virtues that this Rāfidī [author] (5) did not mention. Instead, he cited falsehoods that reveal the ignorance of their transmitter, such as his claim: “The surah Hal Atā (‘Has There Come’) was revealed concerning them.” Yet the surah (6) Hal Atā is Meccan by scholarly consensus. Alī did not marry Fātima until he was in Medina after the Hijrah, and he did not consummate the marriage until after the Battle of Badr. Al-Hasan was born to him in the third year (7) after the Hijrah, and al-Husayn in [the] (8) fourth year after the Hijrah—many years after Hal Atā had been revealed.

Thus, the claim that it was revealed concerning them is a falsehood obvious to anyone who knows the chronology of the Quran’s revelation and the circumstances (9) of these (10) noble and virtuous leaders.

(1) (N), (M), (A), (H), and (R) read: “walad ghayya (a child born of fornication).” (2) “These” is omitted from (A) and (B). (3) “He is” is omitted from (A) and (B). (4) The passage in square brackets is omitted from (N) and (M). (5) “Author” is omitted from (N) and (M). (6) “Surah” is omitted from (A) and (B). (7) (A) and (B) read: “the second,” which is an error. Al-Isāba, 1:328, states: “He was born in the middle of Ramadan in the third year after the Hijrah. This was stated by Ibn Sad, Ibn al-Barqī, and others.” (8) “The year” is omitted from (N), (ة), (S), and (R). (9) (A) and (B) read: “the Quran and the circumstances of…” (10) (A), (B), (N), (M), (W), and (H) read: “these.”

وَلَدُ بَغِيَّةٍ (١) . وَكَذَلِكَ عَلِيٌّ: هَؤُلَاءِ (٢) يَقُولُونَ: إِنَّهُ (٣) إِلَهٌ، وَهَؤُلَاءِ يَقُولُونَ: إِنَّهُ كَافِرٌ ظَالِمٌ. الْوَجْهُ الْخَامِسُ: أَنَّهُ يُقَالُ: قَدْ ثَبَتَ لِعَلِيِّ [بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ - رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ -] (٤) ، وَالْحَسَنِ، وَالْحُسَيْنِ، وَعَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ، وَابْنِهِ مُحَمَّدٍ، وَجَعْفَرِ ابْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ مِنَ الْمَنَاقِبِ وَالْفَصَائِلِ مَا لَمْ يَذْكُرْهُ هَذَا [الْمُصَنِّفُ] (٥) الرَّافِضِيُّ. وَذَكَرَ أَشْيَاءَ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ تَدُلُّ عَلَى جَهْلِ نَاقِلِهَا، مِثْلَ قَوْلِهِ: نَزَلَ فِي حَقِّهِمْ: {هَلْ أَتَى} ، فَإِنَّ سُورَةَ: (٦) {هَلْ أَتَى} مَكِّيَّةٌ بِاتِّفَاقِ الْعُلَمَاءِ، وَعَلِيٌّ إِنَّمَا تَزَوَّجَ فَاطِمَةَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ بَعْدَ الْهِجْرَةِ، وَلَمْ يَدْخُلْ بِهَا إِلَّا بَعْدَ غَزْوَةِ بَدْرٍ، وَوُلِدَ لَهُ الْحَسَنُ فِي السَّنَةِ الثَّالِثَةِ (٧) مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ، وَالْحُسَيْنُ فِي [السَّنَةِ] (٨) الرَّابِعَةِ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ بَعْدَ نُزُولِ: {هَلْ أَتَى} بِسِنِينَ كَثِيرَةٍ. فَقَوْلُ الْقَائِلِ: إِنَّهَا نَزَلَتْ فِيهِمْ مِنَ الْكَذِبِ الَّذِي لَا يَخْفَى عَلَى مَنْ لَهُ عِلْمٌ بِنُزُولِ الْقُرْآنِ وَعِلْمٌ بِأَحْوَالِ (٩) هَؤُلَاءِ (١٠) السَّادَةِ الْأَخْيَارِ.

(١) ن، م، أ، هـ، ر: وَلَدُ غِيَّةٍ. (٢) هَؤُلَاءِ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (أ) ، (ب) . (٣) إِنَّهُ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (أ) ، (ب) . (٤) مَا بَيْنَ الْمَعْقُوفَتَيْنِ سَاقِطٌ مِنْ (ن) ، (م) . (٥) الْمُصَنِّفُ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (ن) ، (م) . (٦) سُورَةَ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (أ) ، (ب) . (٧) أ، ب،: الثَّانِيَةِ، وَهُوَ خَطَأٌ. . وَفِي " الْإِصَابَةِ " ١/٣٢٨: " وُلِدَ فِي نِصْفِ رَمَضَانَ سَنَةَ ثَلَاثٍ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ. قَالَهُ ابْنُ سَعْدٍ، وَابْنُ الْبَرْقِيِّ وَغَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ ". (٨) السَّنَةِ: سَاقِطَةٌ مِنْ (ن) ، (ة) ، (ص) ، (ر) . (٩) أ، ب: الْقُرْآنِ وَأَحْوَالِ. . . (١٠) أ، ب، ن، م، و، هـ: هَذِهِ.