Hadith 28

Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari-asws) – Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘And Allah-azwj has not Equated a woman with a man at all, except what was from the Equalisation by Allah-azwj of (Syeda) Fatima-asws with Ali-asws, and joining her-asws with him-asws. And she-asws is a woman with the most superior of the men of the worlds. And similar to that is what was from Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, and Allah-azwj Joining them both-asws with the superior ones, the prestigious ones for including them-asws in the imprecation (Mubahila). Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘Thus, Allah-azwj Joined (Syeda) Fatima-asws with Muhammad-saww and Ali-asws in the witnessing, and Joined Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws with them-asws. Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Said: But whoever argues with you in this matter after what has come to you from the Knowledge, then say: Come, let us call our sons and your sons and our women and your women and ourselves and yourselves, then let us invoke and make the Curse of Allah to be upon the liars [3: 61]. So the ‘sons’ were Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws. Rasool-Allah-saww came with them-asws and had them-asws seated in front of him-saww like the lion cubs. And as for the ‘women’, so it was (Syeda) Fatima-asws. Rasool-Allah-saww came with her-asws and had her-asws seated behind him-saww like the lioness. And as for the ‘self’, so it was Ali-asws Bin Abu Talib-asws. Rasool-Allah-saww came with him-asws and had him-asws seated on his-saww right like the lion. And he-saww crouched like the lion and said to the people of Najran: ‘Come, we should imprecate now, and we make the Curse of Allah-azwj to be upon the liars’. Rasool-Allah-saww said: ‘O Allah-azwj! This (Ali-asws) is my-saww ‘self’, and he-asws equates to my-saww own self in my-saww presence. O Allah-azwj! This is my-saww ‘women’, the most superior of the women of the worlds’. And he-saww said: ‘O Allah-azwj! These two-asws are my-saww ‘sons’ and my-saww grandsons-asws – so I-saww am at war with the one who wars against them-asws, and am at peach with the one who is at peace with them-asws’. Allah-azwj Differentiated with that, the truthful ones from the liars. Thus, Muhammad-saww, and Ali-asws, and (Syeda) Fatima-asws, and Al-Hassan-asws, and Al-Husayn-asws are the most truthful of the truthful ones, and the most superior of the Momineen. As for Muhammad-saww, so he-saww is the most superior of the men of the worlds. And as for Ali-asws, so he-asws is the ‘self’ of Muhammad-saww, the most superior of the men of the worlds after him-saww. And as for (Syeda) Fatima-asws, so she-asws is the most superior of the women of the worlds. And as for Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws, so they-asws are both the chiefs of the youths of the Paradise, except what was from the two sons-as of a maternal aunt, Isa-as and Yahya-as Bin Zakariyya-as, for Allah-azwj the Exalted did not Join children with the men of complete intellects except for these four – Isa-as bin Maryam-as, and Yahya-as Bin Zakariyya-as, and Al-Hassan-asws and Al-Husayn-asws. As for Isa-as, so Allah-azwj the Exalted Related his-as story and Said: So she pointed towards him. They said: How can we speak to one who was a child in the cradle? [19: 29]. And Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic Related from Isa-as: He said: I am a servant of Allah; He has Given me the Book and Made me a Prophet [19: 30] – the Verse. And He-azwj Said regarding the stor