Hadith 126

Al-Kindy when he saw the Prophet-saww praying Salat in the beginning of the call (to ), and with him-saww was a boy-asws and a woman-as, ‘I said to Al-Abbas, ‘Which this is this? ’ He said, ‘This is the son-saww of my brother-as. He-saww claims that he-saww is a Rasool-saww from Allah-azwj to the people, and no one is following him-saww upon his-saww word except this boy-asws, and he-asws is the son-asws of his-saww brother-as as well, and this woman-as is his-saww wife-as’. He (Afeef) said, ‘I said, ‘So, what is that which you all are saying? ’ He said, ‘We are awaiting what the sheykh would be doing’ – meaning Abu Talib-asws, and he-as is the one who sufficed Rasool-Allah-saww when young, and protected him-saww, and enclosed him-saww when he-saww was older and defended him-saww from the Polytheists of Quraysh, and due to it he-as faced a mighty torment and experienced severe afflictions, and he-as was patient upon helping him-saww and the standing with his-saww matter. And it has come in the Hadeeth that when Abu Talib-asws passed away, it was Revealed to him-saww and Said to him-saww: “Get out from it (Makkah) for your-saww helper has died! ” And for him-saww along with nobility is the paternity that the son-saww of his-as uncle-as Muhammad-saww is chief of the former ones and the latter ones, and his-saww brother-as Ja’far-asws is with the two wings, the one-as for whom Rasool-Allah-saww had said: ‘He-as resembles my-as physique and my-saww manners’. And his-asws wife is chieftess of women of the worlds, and his-asws two sons-asws are both chiefs of the youths of Paradise. So, his-asws forefathers-as are forefathers-as of Rasool-Allah-saww, and his-asws foremothers-as are foremothers-as of Rasool-Allah-saww. And he-asws is mingled with his-saww flesh and his-saww blood. He-asws did not separate from him-saww since Allah-azwj Created Adam-as until Abdul Muttalib-as passed away between the two brothers Abdullah-asws and Abu Talib-asws. And their-asws mother-as is one. From them-as is the chief of the people, the first, and this one-asws is the second, and this is the warner, and this is the guide. And what can I say regarding a man-asws who preceded the people to the guidance and believed in Allah-azwj and worshipped Him-azwj while everyone in the earth was worshipping the stones and had rejected the Creator. No one had preceded him-asws to the Tawheed except the one preceding to all good, Muhammad-saww, Rasool-saww of Allah-azwj. Most of the people of Hadeeth have gone to say, ‘He is the first of the people in following Rasool-Allah-saww and no one has differed in that except the few. And he-asws had said: ‘I-asws am the greatest truthful, and I-asws am the distinguisher, the first one to be a Muslim before Islam of the people, and I-asws had prayed Salat before their praying Salat’. And one who pauses upon the books of the companions of Ahadeeth in investigation and learn it, would be clear. And to it went Al-Waqidy and Ibn Al-Jareer Al-Tabari, and it is the word which has profited and helped the author of the book ‘Al-Istiyaab’. And with Allah-azwj is the inclination’’. [87]