Minhaj as-Sunnah - Ibn Taimiya - (5/74)

Minhaj as-SunnahIbn Taimiya

drinking wine, and said, “He loves Allah and His Messenger” (1). Every believer must love Allah and His Messenger, yet sins still harm him. The Muslims are unanimously agreed—and it is necessarily known from the religion of Islam—that associating partners with Allah harms the one who commits it and that Allah does not forgive it for him (2), even if he loves ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib. Indeed, ‘Alī’s father, Abū Tālib, loved him, yet associating partners with Allah harmed him until he entered the Fire. The extremists claim to love ‘Alī, yet they are disbelievers among the people of the Fire.

The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said in an authentic hadith:

“If Fātimah, the daughter of Muhammad, were to steal, I would cut off her hand” (3).

It is necessarily known from the religion of Islam that if a man stole, his hand would be cut off even if he loved ‘Alī; if he committed adultery, the prescribed punishment would be carried out upon him even if he loved ‘Alī; and if he killed someone, he would be executed in retaliation for the victim even if he loved ‘Alī. Love for the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—is greater than love for ‘Alī. If a man abandoned prayer and zakat and committed major sins, this would harm him despite his love for the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—so how could it not harm him despite his love for ‘Alī?

(1) This hadith was cited previously, 4/457–458. (2) This is absent from A and B. (3) A and B read: “Even if Fātimah…” The hadith is narrated by ‘Ā’isha—may Allah be pleased with her—and appears in three places in al-Bukhārī: 5/23, *The Book of the Virtues of the Companions of the Prophet*—peace and blessings be upon him—“Chapter on the Account of Usāma ibn Zayd”; 4/175, *The Book of the Prophets*, “Chapter: Abū al-Yamān Narrated to Us.” Its wording there states that Quraysh were deeply concerned about the case of the Makhzūmī woman who had committed theft. It also states that the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said: “Are you interceding regarding one of the prescribed punishments of Allah?” He then stood and delivered an address, saying: “What destroyed those before you…” to the end of the hadith. It is also found in al-Bukhārī, 8/160, *The Book of Prescribed Punishments*, “Chapter on Enforcing Prescribed Punishments upon the Noble and the Lowly”; Muslim, 3/1315–1316, *The Book of Prescribed Punishments*, “Chapter on Cutting Off the Hand of a Thief, Whether Noble or Otherwise”; and *Sunan Abī Dāwūd*, 4/188, *The Book of Prescribed Punishments*, “Chapter on Intercession concerning a Prescribed Punishment.” The hadith also appears in the *Sunan* works of al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah, al-Nasā’ī, and al-Dārimī, and in the *Musnad* of Ahmad.

الْخَمْرِ، وَقَالَ: " إِنَّهُ يُحِبُّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ " (١) . وَكُلُّ مُؤْمِنٍ فَلَا بُدَّ أَنْ يُحِبَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ، وَالسَّيِّئَاتُ تَضُرُّهُ. وَقَدْ أَجْمَعَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ وَعُلِمَ بِالِاضْطِرَارِ مِنْ دِينِ الْإِسْلَامِ أَنَّ الشِّرْكَ يَضُرُّ صَاحِبَهُ وَلَا يَغْفِرُهُ اللَّهُ لِصَاحِبِهِ (٢) ، وَلَوْ أَحَبَّ عَلِيَّ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ; فَإِنَّ أَبَاهُ أَبَا طَالِبٍ كَانَ يُحِبُّهُ وَقَدْ ضَرَّهُ الشِّرْكُ حَتَّى دَخَلَ النَّارَ، وَالْغَالِيَةُ يَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُمْ يُحِبُّونَهُ وَهُمْ كُفَّارٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ النَّارِ. وَقَدْ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فِي الْحَدِيثِ الصَّحِيحِ: " «لَوْ أَنَّ فَاطِمَةَ بِنْتَ مُحَمَّدٍ سَرَقَتْ لَقَطَعْتُ يَدَهَا» " (٣) . وَقَدْ عُلِمَ بِالِاضْطِرَارِ مِنْ دِينِ الْإِسْلَامِ أَنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَوْ سَرَقَ لَقُطِعَتْ يَدُهُ وَإِنْ كَانَ يُحِبُّ عَلِيًّا، وَلَوْ زَنَى أُقِيمَ عَلَيْهِ الْحَدُّ وَلَوْ كَانَ يُحِبُّ عَلِيًّا، وَلَوْ قَتَلَ لَأُقِيدَ بِالْمَقْتُولِ وَإِنْ كَانَ يُحِبُّ عَلِيًّا. وَحُبُّ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - أَعْظَمُ مِنْ حُبِّ عَلِيٍّ، وَلَوْ تَرَكَ رَجُلٌ الصَّلَاةَ وَالزَّكَاةَ وَفَعَلَ الْكَبَائِرَ لَضَرَّهُ ذَلِكَ مَعَ حُبِّ النَّبِيِّ - صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ - فَكَيْفَ لَا يَضُرُّهُ ذَلِكَ مَعَ حُبِّ عَلِيٍّ؟ .

(١) سَبَقَ الْحَدِيثُ فِيمَا مَضَى ٤/٤٥٧ - ٤٥٨ (٢) سَاقِطٌ مِنْ (أ) ، (ب) . (٣) أ، ب: وَلَوْ أَنَّ فَاطِمَةَ. . . وَالْحَدِيثُ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا، وَجَاءَ فِي الْبُخَارِيِّ فِي ثَلَاثَةِ مَوَاضِعَ، ٥/٢٣ كِتَابُ فَضَائِلِ أَصْحَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، بَابُ ذِكْرِ أُسَامَةَ بْنِ زَيْدٍ ٤/١٧٥ كِتَابُ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ بَابُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ وَنَصُّهُ فِيهِ أَنَّ قُرَيْشًا أَهَمَّهُمْ شَأْنُ الْمَرْأَةِ الْمَخْزُومِيَّةِ الَّتِي سَرَقَتْ، وَفِيهِ: فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: أَتَشْفَعُ فِي حَدٍّ مِنْ حُدُودِ اللَّهِ؟ ثُمَّ قَامَ فَاخْتَطَبَ ثُمَّ قَالَ: إِنَّمَا أَهْلَكَ الَّذِينَ قَبْلَكُمْ. الْحَدِيثَ، وَهُوَ فِي الْبُخَارِيِّ ٨/١٦٠ كِتَابُ الْحُدُودِ بَابُ إِقَامَةِ الْحُدُودِ عَلَى الشَّرِيفِ وَالْوَضِيعِ، مُسْلِمٌ ٣/١٣١٥ - ١٣١٦ كِتَابُ الْحُدُودِ، بَابُ قَطْعِ السَّارِقِ الشَّرِيفِ وَغَيْرِهِ، سُنَنِ أَبِي دَاوُدَ ٤/١٨٨ كِتَابُ الْحُدُودِ بَابُ فِي الْحَدِّ يُشْفَعُ فِيهِ، وَجَاءَ الْحَدِيثُ فِي سُنَنِ التِّرْمِذِيِّ وَابْنِ مَاجَهْ وَالنَّسَائِيِّ وَالدَّارِمِيِّ وَمُسْنَدِ أَحْمَدَ.