Hadith 136

All good I-saww wish from my-saww Lord-azwj’’. [227]
And from the strange is what the group from the enemies of People-asws of the Household have reached to against Abu Talib-asws. They are claiming that the intended by the Words of the Exalted to His-azwj Prophet-saww Surely you cannot guide the one you love [28: 56], is Abu Talib-asws. And it has been mentioned by Abu Al-Majd Bin Rashadat Al-Wa’iz Al-Wasity in his work (Kitaab Asbaab Nuzool Al-Quran), these are not its words. He said, ‘Al-Hassan Bin Mufazzal said regarding the Words of the Exalted, ‘Surely you cannot guide the one you love [28: 56] – how can they say that it was Revealed regarding Abu Talib-asws, and this Chapter is from the end of what was Revealed from the Quran in Al-Medina, while Abu Talib-asws passed away during the initial-period of and the Prophet-saww was in Makkah? But rather, this Verse was Revealed regarding Al-Haris Bin Al-No’man Bin Abd Manaf, and the Prophet-saww liked him, and liked his Islam. So one day he said to the Prophet-saww, ‘I know that you-as are upon the Truth, and that which you-saww have come with is True, but what is prevent us from following you-saww is that the Arabs would seize us from our lands due to their majority and our minority, and there is no strength with us against them. So the Verse was Revealed, and the Prophet-saww preferred his Islam an inclined towards him’’. [228]
And they are reporting regarding that a famous Hadeeth: ‘Rasool-Allah-saww said to him (Abu Talib-asws) at his-as expiry: ‘Say, O uncle-saww, the phrase (Kalima), I-saww shall testify for you-saww tomorrow due to it in the Presence of Allah-azwj the Exalted’. He-as said: ‘If the Arabs would not say, ‘Abu Talib-asws panicked during the death’, I-saww would have delighted your-saww eyes by it’’. [229]
And they are arguing in, the forefathers, due to what is reported from Ja’far-asws Bin Muhammad-asws having said: ‘Allah-azwj will Resurrect Abdul Muttalib on the Day of Qiyamah, and upon him-as would be a marking of the Prophets-as and glory of the kings’’. [230]
It is reported that a man from the Shia men, and he is Aban Bin Abu Mahmoud, wrote to Ali-asws Bin Musa Al-Reza-asws, ‘May I be sacrificed for you-asws! I have doubted regarding the Islam of Abu Talib-asws’. He-asws wrote to him: ‘And whoever contends the Rasool after the Guidance has clarified to him, and he follows other than the way of the Momineen, [4: 115] – the Verse. And after it, if you do not acknowledge the Eman of Abu Talib-asws, your destination would be to the Fire’’. [231]
And it has been reported from Muhammad-asws Bin Ali Al-Baqir-asws, he-asws had been asked about what the people are saying that Abu Talib-asws is in the shallowness of the Fire. He-asws said: ‘If the Eman of Abu Talib-asws were to be placed in a hand of a scale and the Eman of these people in the other hand, his-as Eman would outweigh’. Then he-asws said: ‘Don’t you know that Amir Al-Momineen Ali-asws used to instruct that Hajj be performed on behalf of Abdullah-as, and Aamina-asws, and Abu Talib-asws during his-asws lifetime, then bequeathed in his-as will with the Hajj to be performed on their-as behalf? ’’[232]
And it has been reported that Abu Bakr came with Abu Quhafa (his father) to the Prophet-saww in the year of the conquest (of Makkah), leading him, and he was an aged old man, blind. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Why don’t you leave the old man until we go to him? ’
He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! I wanted Allah-azwj to Recompense him. But, by the One-azwj Who Sent you-saww with the truth, I was more intensely happier with the Islam of your-saww uncle-as Abu Talib-asws than I am with the Islam of my father, seeking by that the delight of your-saww eyes’. He-saww said: ‘You speak the truth’’. [233]
And it is reported that Ali-asws Bin Al-Husayn-asws was asked about this (Eman of Abu Talib-asws). He-asws said: ‘Oh how strange! Surely Allah-azwj the Exalted had Prohibited His-azwj Rasool-saww to accept a Muslim woman to be upon the marriage of a Kafir, and (Syeda) Fatima-asws Bint Asad-as was from the foremost ones to and did not cease to be under (being married to) Abu Talib-asws until he-as passed away’’. [234]
And it is reported from a group of Zaydiites that Abu Talib-as, the narrators of Ahadeeth are attributing a Hadeeth from him-as ending to Abu Rafie a slave of Rasool-Allah-saww has said, ‘I heard Abu Talib-asws saying at Makkah: ‘Muhammad-saww, son-saww of my-as brother narrated to me-as that his-saww Lord-azwj had Sent him-saww with maintaining the kinship, and that he-saww should worship Him-azwj alone, not worship someone else with Him-azwj, and in my-as view Muhammad-saww is the truthful, the trustworthy’’. [235]
And a group said, ‘The words of the Prophet-saww: ‘I-saww and the guarantor of the orphan would be like these two (fingers) in the Paradise’, he-saww rather meant Abu Talib-asws by it’’. [236]
And it is famous and widespread, and it is his-saww words to Aqeel: ‘I-saww love you with two loves – love for you and love for the love of Abu Talib-asws for you, for he-as used to love you’’. [237]
And the sermon of the marriage is famous. Abu Talib-asws had addressed during the marriage of Muhammad-saww and (Syeda) Khadeeja-asws, and these are his-as words: ‘The Praise is for Allah-azwj Who Made us to be from the offspring of Ibrahim-as, and plantation of Ismail-as, and Made a Sanctimonious city to be for us, and a House of Pilgrimage (Kabah), (and it is reported, veiled), and Made us the rulers upon the people. Then Muhammad Bin Abdullah is (son-saww of) my-as brother-as, one who no youth from Quraysh can be weighed with him-saww except he-saww would outweigh upo