Hadith 19

m-asws, neither will they-asws leave it nor will it leave them-asws’. Then Ali-asws said to Abu Al-Darda and Abu Hureira and those who were around them: ‘O you people! Do you know that Allah-azwj Blessed and High Sent down in His-azwj Book: But rather, Allah Intends to Keep the uncleanness away from you, People of the Household, and Purify you (with) a Purification [33: 33]. Rasool-Allah-saww gathered me-asws, and Fatima-asws, and Al-Hassan-asws, and Al-Husayn-asws along with himself-saww in his-saww Blanket (Kisaa), and said: ‘O Allah-azwj! These-asws are my-saww Family, and my-saww special ones, and the People-asws of my-saww Household, never let uncleanliness come near them-asws and Keep them-asws Purified with a thorough Purifying. Umm Salama-ra said: ‘And I-ra, O Rasool-Allah-saww? ’ So he-saww said: ‘You-ra are upon good, but this has Descended regarding myself-saww, and regarding my-saww brother Ali-asws, and my-saww daughter Fatima-asws, and regarding my-saww sons Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, and regarding nine Imams-asws from the sons-asws of Al-Husayn-asws from after me-saww. All of them stood up and said, ‘We bear witness that Umm Salama-ra narrated that to us, so we asked the Rasool-Allah-saww, and he-saww narrated to us just as Umm Salama-ra had narrated it’. Then Ali-asws said: ‘I-asws adjure you all to Allah-azwj, do you know that Allah-azwj, Majestic is His-azwj Name, Sent down in His-azwj Book: O you who believe! Fear Allah and be with the truthful ones [9: 119]? ’ Salman-ra said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww, is this general or special? ’
He-saww said: ‘But rather, the ones who have been Ordered are the general, being the group of the believers who have been Ordered with that, and as for the ‘Truthful’, so it is specially for my-saww brother Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and my-saww successors-asws from after him-asws up to the Day of Qiyamah’. Ali-asws said: ‘And I-asws said to the Rasool-Allah-saww during the (military) expedition of Tabuk: ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww, why did you-saww leave me-asws behind? ’ He-saww said: ‘O Ali-asws, Al-Medina cannot be in a correct state except by me-saww and by you-asws, and you-asws are from me-saww of the status which Haroun -as had from Musa-as except for the Prophet-hood, except there will be no Prophet-as after me-saww’. Some men from the Emigrants and the Helpers stood up and said, ‘We testify that we heard that from the Rasool-Allah-saww during the (military) expedition of Tabuk’. He-asws said: ‘I-asws adjure you all to Allah-azwj, do you know that Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Revealed in Surah Al-Hajj: O you who believe! Perform Ruku and Sajdah and worship your Lord, [22: 77] – up to the end of the Surah. Salman-ra stood up and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww, who are these-asws over whom you-saww are a witness and they-asws are witnesses over the people, whom Allah-azwj has Chosen, and did not Make anything wrong to them in the Religion, the Nation of their-asws father Ibrahim-as? ’
Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘But it means by that thirteen humans – I-asws, and my-saww brother Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws, and eleven from his-asws sons-asws’. They said, ‘O Allah-azwj, yes’. Ali-asws said: ‘I-asws adjure you all to Allah-azwj, do you know that Rasool-Allah-saww stood up to preach – and he-saww never preached after it – and said: ‘O you people! I-asws am leaving among you all two commands, you will not stray if you attach yourselves to these two – the Book of Allah-azwj and my-saww Family, the People-asws of my-saww Household, for it has been Promised to me-saww by the Kind-azwj, the Aware-azwj, that these two will never separate until they return to me-saww at the Fountain? ’
They said, ‘O Allah-azwj, yes, we have witnessed that, all of it’. Ali-asws said: ‘Al