Hadith 26

er the Momin who was not a scholar, just as He-azwj was not Pleased for the Momin except that He-azwj Raises him over the one who isn’t a Momin. Can you inform me-asws about it? He-azwj said: ‘Allah will Exalt those of you who believe, and those who are given knowledge are ranks [58: 11], or did He-azwj Say Allah-azwj Raises those who are given the nobility, and the lineage in ranks? Or, isn’t Allah-azwj Saying: Say: ‘Are they equal, those who do not know and those do know? ’ [39: 9]. How come you are denying the raising of this one to what Allah-azwj has Raised? The breaking of this one of the so and so Nasibi by arguments of Allah-azwj which he learnt is better for him than every nobility in the lineage’. Al-Abbaside said, ‘O son-asws of Rasool-Allah-saww! You-asws have ennobled over us, and reduced us from one who has not lineage for him like our lineages, and it has not ceased to be since the beginning of Al Islam, to place forwards the ones of superior nobility to be over the ones below him’. He-asws said: ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj! Didn’t Al-Abbas pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr and he was Taymi (Tribe of Taym) and Al-Abbas was a Hashimite? Or wasn’t Abdullah Ibn Al-Abbas a servant of Umar Bin Al-Khattab, and he was a Hashimite, father of the Caliphs, and Umar was an Adwy (Tribe of Udayy)? And what was the matter Umar included the slaves from Quraysh into the consultative council and did not include Al-Abbas? If our-asws raising of one who isn’t a Hashimite over a Hashimite was deniable, then deny upon Al-Abbas of his allegiance to Abu Bakr, and upon Abdullah Bin Al-Abbas serving Umar after pledging allegiance to him. So, if that was allowed, then this is allowed’. It were as if the Hashimite has swallowed a stone’’. [25]