Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (5/55)

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—other than me?’

They said, ‘By Allah, no (1).’

(* He said, ‘I adjure you by Allah: Do you know (2) of anyone other than me with whom he spoke privately (3) on the day of al-Tā’if, apart from everyone else, and did so at length? You then said, “He spoke privately with him rather than with us,” whereupon he said, “It was not I who singled him out for private conversation; rather, Allah singled him out”?’

They said, ‘By Allah, yes.’ *) (4).

He said, ‘I adjure you by Allah: Do you know that the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“The truth is with Alī, and Alī is with the truth. The truth moves with Alī wherever he moves” (5)?’

They said (6), ‘By Allah, yes.’

He said, ‘I adjure you by Allah: Do you know (7) that the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said:

“I am leaving among you the Two Weighty Things: the Book of Allah and my kindred, the people of my household. You will never go astray so long as you hold fast to them both, and they will never part until they come to me at the Basin”?’

They said, ‘By Allah, yes.’

He said, ‘I adjure you by Allah: Is there anyone among you who shielded the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—from the polytheists with his own life and lay in his bed, other than me (8)?’

(1) N, M, A, R, and Y read: “By Allah, yes.” (2) A, B, Q, and H read: “Do you know…?” (3) K reads: “that he—may Allah bless him and his family—spoke privately with me.” (4) The passage between the two asterisks is omitted from M. (5) K, p. 129 M, reads: “with the truth; it turns with him wherever he turns.” (6) R, W, H, Y, and B read: “Then they said.” (7) H and B read: “Do you know…?” (8) K reads: “Is there anyone among you to whom the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and his family—said, when he fled from the polytheists, ‘Who will sacrifice himself for me?’ He then sacrificed himself for him and lay in his bed—other than me?”

غَيْرِي؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ لَا (١) . (* قَالَ: فَأَنْشُدُكُمْ بِاللَّهِ أَتَعْلَمُونَ (٢) «أَنَّهُ نَاجَانِي (٣) يَوْمَ الطَّائِفِ دُونَ النَّاسِ فَأَطَالَ ذَلِكَ، فَقُلْتُمْ نَاجَاهُ دُونَنَا، فَقَالَ: مَا أَنَا انْتَجَيْتُهُ بَلِ اللَّهُ انْتَجَاهُ» ، غَيْرِي؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ *) (٤) . قَالَ: فَأَنْشُدُكُمْ بِاللَّهِ أَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - قَالَ: «الْحَقُّ مَعَ عَلِيٍّ وَعَلِيٌّ مَعَ الْحَقِّ، يَزُولُ الْحَقُّ مَعَ عَلِيٍّ كَيْفَمَا زَالَ» (٥) قَالُوا (٦) : اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: فَأَنْشُدُكُمْ بِاللَّهِ أَتَعْلَمُونَ (٧) أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - قَالَ: «إِنِّي تَارِكٌ فِيكُمُ الثَّقَلَيْنِ: كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَعِتْرَتِي أَهْلَ بَيْتِي، لَنْ تَضِلُّوا مَا اسْتَمْسَكْتُمْ بِهِمَا، وَلَنْ يَفْتَرِقَا حَتَّى يَرِدَا عَلَيَّ الْحَوْضَ» ؟ قَالُوا: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. قَالَ: فَأَنْشُدُكُمْ بِاللَّهِ هَلْ فِيكُمْ أَحَدٌ وَقَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - بِنَفْسِهِ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَاضْطَجَعَ فِي مَضْجَعِهِ غَيْرِي (٨) ؟

(١) ن، م، أ، ر، ي: اللَّهُمَّ نَعَمْ. (٢) أ، ب، ق، ح: هَلْ تَعْلَمُونَ. (٣) ك: أَنَّهُ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ نَاجَانِي. (٤) مَا بَيْنَ النَّجْمَتَيْنِ سَاقِطٌ مِنْ (م) . (٥) ك ص ١٢٩ م: مَعَ الْحَقِّ يَدُورُ مَعَهُ حَيْثُ دَارَ. (٦) ر، و، ح، ي، ب: فَقَالُوا. (٧) ح، ب: هَلْ تَعْلَمُونَ. (٨) ك: هَلْ فِيكُمْ أَحَدٌ قَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ حِينَ هَرَبَ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ: مَنْ يَفْدِينِي بِنَفْسِهِ؟ فَفَدَى لَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ وَاضْطَجَعَ فِي مَضْجَعِهِ غَيْرِي.