Ali and Sons

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# Reported Saying of the Holy Prophet about Imam Ali

[ Note: Prophet Mohammed is Nabi, the Holy Messenger sent by God Almighty. Divine Blessings are upon him and his pure family.]


God’s Nabi said: “In all Creation, the most beloved of God and His Nabi is Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “In this life and in the life after death, Ali is my brother.”

God’s Nabi said: “Between two friends, me and Ebraheem, Ali is our love.”

God’s Nabi said: “On the Day of Judgement the Caller will shout ‘O Mohammed, blessed be Ebraheem your father, and blessed Ali your brother’.”

God’s Nabi said: “Tuba is a Tree in Paradise. Ali is its branch; and its Root is the Ali’s House.”

God’s Nabi said: “On the Day of Judgement, without Wilaya [love] of Ali, no man or woman will be allowed to cross Seerat [bridge between Hell and Heaven].”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the Seerat [bridge, partition] between Heaven and Hell.”

God’s Nabi said: “People who accepted Islam which is Ali, will be able to reach Kosar [Foutain of Paradise].”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is holder of my Flag in this world and in the Hereafter.”

God’s Nabi said: “I am the Warner, and Ali is the Guide.”

God’s Nabi said: “Those who wants to live like me and die like me will be near to Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali holds same position as the Kaba [House of God].”

God’s Nabi said: “Title of the book of believers is, LOVE OF ALI”

God’s Nabi said: “Eman [faith] means love for Ali; and Nefak [disbelief] is dislike for Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Good action is loving Ali, therefore, do not waste it with bad deeds.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the door of worship. Anyone who passes this door is a true believer.”

God’s Nabi said: “I and Ali were created from the same tree.”

God’s Nabi said: “There is no sword but Zolfikar, and there is no man but Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Remembering Ali is worship of God. Looking at Ali is devotion to God.”

God’s Nabi said: “Adorn your meetings by remembering Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Those who abandon Ali abandon me and those who abandon me abandon God.”

God’s Nabi said: “He who believes in me and trusts me, to him I recommend Wilaya [love] for Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Every messenger from God has an executor and heir. My executor and heir is Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the most knowledgeable person of my Omah [nation].”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the best Judge in my Omah [nation].”

God’s Nabi said: “My hand and Ali’s hand are equal in Justice.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the most God fearing person.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the Leader in Goodness, Warrior against Injustice, Supporter of his Followers, and Ignorer of His Ignorers.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali has right over this Omah [nation] as father has right over his son.”

God’s Nabi said: “Koran is with Ali, and Ali is with Koran.”

God’s Nabi said: “God told me to close all doors except door of Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Most wretched person from beginning to the end of the world is killer of Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is to me same as Haroon was to Musa.

God’s Nabi said: “Besides Ali, no one else can tell you about me.”

God’s Nabi said: “For me, Ali is same as head is to the body. [i.e. Ali is my life] ”

God’s Nabi said: “Oh God, don’t take my life until you have shown me the face of Ali.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the Door to my Knowledge. He will tell you with what I was sent.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the Separator of Truth and Falsehood.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali’s place is same as Surah Eklas [Chapter of Purity] in the Koran. [‘Say He is God the One. The Absolute. He does not beget and He was not begotten. There is no one comparable to Him’.] “

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is Leader of the Righteous, Prince of Believers, and the Chief of the Luminous [Al Zahra].”

God’s Nabi said: “If God had not created Ali, there would not have been any human sufficient to marry my daughter Fatima.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is from me and I am from him. After me, he is the Guardian of every true believer.”

God’s Nabi said: “Love for Ali exempts you from the Fire of Hell.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali is the best of humanity; anyone who denies this is blasphemer.”

God’s Nabi said: “Ali and his Shias [lovers] will succeed.”

God’s Nabi said: “He of whom I am master, then Ali is his master.”

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# Saying of Nabi Mohammed about Hasan and Husayni

[ Note: Prophet Mohammed is Nabi, the Holy Messenger sent by God Almighty. Divine Blessings are upon him and his pure family.]


al-Bara said; I saw Nabi with Hasan son of Ali on his shoulder and saying, “ O. Allah, I love him, so love him”.

Abu-Horayra said; I saw Nabi carrying Husain son of Ali and saying, “ O Allah, I love him, so love him”.

Abu-Horayra said: “ Nabi came out to us with Hasan and Husain on his shoulders, kissing them alternatively until he came to the point where we were standing; a man then said, “ O Nabi, do you love them? He replied, “ Yes, whosoever loves them has loved me and whosoever hates them has hated me”.

When the verse, {I do not ask of you a wage for this, except love for the kinsfolk} was revealed, people said, “ O Nabi, who are those kinsfolk of yours whose love became an obligation upon us?” He replied, “ Ali, Fatima and their two sons”.

Abu-Bakra said; I heard Nabi saying from the pulpit looking at the crowd at a time and at Hasan, who was beside him, at another, “ This son of mine is a master and perhaps through him Allah will set things right between two parties of Moslems”.

God’s Nabi said: “ Truly, by this son of mine, Allah will straighten out two great parties”.

Yala Ibn-Morra said: “ We were in the company of Nabi and where invited to a meal and there he was Husain playing in the road, and then Nabi hurried ahead of us and stretched out his hands putting one under his chin and the other behind the back of his head, embraced and kissed him and said: “ Husayn is from me and I am from him; Allah loves whoso loves him; both Hasan and Husain are of the Asbat [singular of sibt, a grandson].

Anas said: “ No one looked more like Nabi than Hasan son of Ali.

Anas said, “ Hasan and Husain resembled God’s Nabi more than anyone else”.

Ali said, “ More than anyone, Hasan resembled Nabi in between the chin and the top; and more than anyone Husain resembled Nabi in between the chin and the toe”.

God’s Nabi said: “ We, the descendants of Abd al-Mottalib, are the masters of the inhabitants of Paradise; I, Hamza, Ali, Jafar, Hasan, Husain and Mahdi”.

God’s Nabi said: about Hasan and Husain , “ Whoso loves them, I love and whoso I love, Allah Loves, and whoso Allah loves will admit to the Gardens of Bliss; and whoso hates them, I hate, and whoso I hate, Allah hates and whoso Allah hates will admit to the chastisement of Gehenna and for him there is a mighty chastisement”.

Ali said while looking at either Hasan or Husain; “ This son of mine is a master as Nabi named him; and from his loin (descendants) a man will be born who has the same name as your Nabi and is similar to him in looks”.

God’s Nabi said: “ If only one day remains of life in this world, Allah will prolong it so that He will send forth a man from among the offsprings of my sons; he has the same name as mine”. Salman said: “ Of which one of your sons, O Nabi?” He replied: “ Of this son of mine”, and he tapped Husain with his hand.

Hozayfa said; We saw delight in Nabi’s face one day, so we asked him about it, he said: “ How could I not delight when (archangel) Gabriel has already come to me and brought me news of Hasan and Husayn being masters of the youths of Paradise and of their father being better to them”.

God’s Nabi said about Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husain: “ I am an enemy of their enemy and a friend of their friend”.

God’s Nabi said: “ Truly, Hasan and Husain are my fragrant roses from this world”.

Aysha said Nabi went out early in the morning one day putting on a painted garment made of black hair; then Hasan son of Ali came and he let him in (under the garment) and then Husain came and entered with him and then Fatima came and he let her enter and then Ali came and he let him enter; then he said: “ People of the House, Allah only desires to put away from you abomination and to cleanse you”.

While Nabi was in Arafat one day he addressed Ali who was facing him saying: “ Come near me O Ali; I and you where created from the same tree; your body was made from my body; I and you where created from a tree the trunk of which is me, you are its branch and Hasan and Husain are its twigs; whoso clings to any of its twigs, Allah will admit to Paradise”.

God’s Nabi said: “ I am a tree, Fatima is its trunk or branch, Ali is its seed, Hasan and Husain are its fruits and our shia (adherents) are its leaves; the tree is in Eden; the trunk, the branch, the seed, the leaves and the fruits are in The Garden.

Ali said: “ Nabi visited us and stayed the night over at our place; Hasan and Husain where sleeping, then Hasan asked for a drink and Nabi took up a waterskin of ours and started squeezing it into a cup and handed it to Hasan; then Husain reached for it to drink; Nabi prevented him and started with Hasan; Fatima then said: “ O Nabi, as if you love him more than the other!” He said: “ He asked to drink first”, and continued: “ You, these two, this sleeping man- Ali- and I are in one and the same place on the Day of Resurrection”.

Nabi took the hands of Hasan and Husayn and said: “ Whoso loves me, these two, their father and mother will have the same rank as mine on the Day of Judgment”.

Ali quoted God’s Nabi said: “ I, Ali, Fatima, Hasan, Husain and whoso loves us, eat and drink together until men are judged”. A man heard that and asked about it saying, “ How about the presentation before Allah and the reckoning?” I said: “ How was it then for the man in sura Ya Sin who was admitted to Paradise immediately?”

God’s Nabi said: to Ali: “ Truly, the first four people to enter Paradise are I, you, Hasan and Husain; our descendants are behind our backs; our wives are behind our descendants and our adherents are on our right and left sides”.

Salman said; “ We where sitting around Nabi early in the day when um-Ayman (a wife of Nabi) came and said: “ O Nabi, Hasan and Husain went missing”; Nabi said: “ Get up and search for my two sons”. Each one followed a direction and I followed Nabi; he did not stop until he came upon a mountain foot and there was Hasan and Husain clinging to each other and a serpent was standing on its tail with something like a flame coming out of its mouth. Nabi hurried towards it and it entered into a hole, Nabi then came up to them, separated them, wiped their faces clean and said: “ May my father and mother be your ransom, how precious you are to Allah!” He then carried one on each shoulder. Then I said: “ Yours is blessedness, how excellent a mount yours is! Nabi said: “ And what an excellent riders they are! And their father is superior to them”.

Anas said: Nabi was sleeping on his back in one of his houses when Hasan came up walking slowly until he sat on Nabi’s chest and passed water. I then came up to pull him away when Nabi woke up and said: “ Woe unto you O Anas, leave my son and the product of my heart alone. Whosoever harms him has harmed me and whosoever harms me has harmed Allah. Then, Nabi called for water and poured it onto the spot.

According to Salman: “ I dropped in on Nabi and there he was Husain on his thigh and he was kissing him in his eyes and mouth and saying: “ You are a master, a son of a master, a brother of a master and a father of masters; you are an imam, a son of imam, a brother of an imam and a father of imams; you are a hujja (a complete authority), a son of a hujja, a brother of a hujja and a father of hujaj (pl. of hujja); of your offsprings the ninth is The Qaim (standing) between them.

After Fatima gave birth to Hasan she brought him to Nabi and he gave him his name. Similarly, after she gave birth to Husain, she brought him to Nabi and said: “ This one is better than the other”; Nabi then derived for him a name from his(Hasan’s) name; he said, “ This is Husayn”.

God’s Nabi said: “ I named them-i.e. Hasan and Husain- after Aaron’s two sons, Shobbar and Shobayr”.

Rabia al-Sadee said; When people’s opinion differed about the Preference, I saddled my camel, took my provision and journeyed until I entered Madina and came to see Hothayfa Ibn al-Yaman who said: “ Who is your people?” I said; “ I am an Iraqi”. He said: “ From where in Iraq?” I said: “ I am a man from Kufa”. He said: “ You are welcome, people of Kufa”. I said: “ Our people’s opinion differed about the Preference. Therefore, I came to ask you about it”.

He said: “ To the expert you came, I won’t tell you except what my ears had heard, my heart had known and my eyes had seen. Nabi came out to us-as if I am seeing him right now- carrying Husain son of Ali on his shoulder and putting his good hand on his (Husain’s) foot and clinging it to his chest and said: “ Surely, I know what you will differ about after me. This is Husain son of Ali; he has the best grandfather and grandmother; his grandfather, Nabi, is the master of all prophets; his grandmother is Khadija daughter of Khowaylid, the first of all women to believe in Allah and His Messenger. This, Husain son of Ali has the best father in all people, the best mother in all people; his father is Ali son of abu-Talib, Nabi’s brother, vice and cousin, the first of all men to believe in Allah and His Messenger; his mother is Fatima daughter of Mohammed, the Mistress of all women. This, Husain son of Ali has the best (paternal) uncle and the best (paternal) aunt; his uncle is Jafar son of abu-Talib who is adorned with two wings with which he flies to wherever he wants in Paradise, and his aunt is um-Hany daughter of abu-Talib. This, Husain son of Ali has the best (maternal) uncle and the best (maternal) aunt; his uncle is al-Qasim son of Mohammed, Nabi, and his aunt is Zaynab daughter of Mohammed”. He then put him on his shoulder, separated his arms then knelt and said: “ O people, this is Husain son of Ali; his grandfather and grandmother are in Paradise; his (paternal) uncle and aunt are in Paradise; his (maternal) uncle and aunt are in Paradise; he and his brother are in Paradise. Surely, no one of Nabi’s descendants was given what he was given except Joseph son of Jacob”.”

Ibn Abbas said: “ I was at Nabi’s place and Husain was sitting on his right thigh and his son Ibrahim was sitting on his left thigh and he was kissing them alternatively when Gabriel descended and said: “ O Mohammed, Allah greets you and says: “ I am not letting you keep both of them, so sacrifice one of them for the other”. Nabi looked at his son Ibrahim and cried and looked at Husain and cried and said: “ If Ibrahim dies no one would grieve over him but me and Husain’s mother is Fatima and his father is Ali son of abu-Talib, my cousin and blood relative; and if he dies, my daughter, my cousin and I will grieve over him and I choose my grief over theirs; Ibrahim died three years later. When Nabi used to say see Husain coming thereafter he would kiss and embrace him and say: “ I sacrificed my son Ibrahim for him”.

According to Ibn Abbas; “ Hasan and Husain wrestled with one another at Nabi’s place and he started encouraging Hasan by saying; “ Come on, O Hasan! Well-done O Hasan”. Aysha. -Or Fatima in another wording- said then: “ Do you help the big over the little one?” He said: “ Gabriel is saying, well done O Husayn!”

God’s Nabi said: “ When the people of Paradise become settled in it, Paradise would say: “ O Lord, did you not promise me to grace me with two of your Pillars?” He would say, “ Did I not grace you with Hasan and Husain?” Paradise would then swing with pride, as a bride would do”.

God’s Nabi said: “Truly; Fatima, Ali, Hasan and Husain are in the Yard of Sanctity (Paradise), in a white dome the ceiling of which is God’s throne”.

God’s Nabi said: “ In the night I was ascended to heaven I saw the following written on The Garden’s gate, There is no God but Allah, Mohammed God’s Messenger, Ali is the Love of Allah, Hasan and Husain are the Elite of Allah, Fatima is the Slave girl of Allah, upon their hater is the Curse of Allah”.

Al-Aqra Ibn Habis dropped in on Nabi and saw him kissing either Hasan or Husayn; he said: “ Do you kiss him? I have ten children I never kissed anyone of them!” Nabi replied: “ Truly, Allah does not have mercy upon someone who does not have mercy upon others”.

Nabi used to fortify Hasan and Husain by pronouncing this charm over them, I fortify you with Allah’s Perfect Words from every Satan and vermin and from every evil eye. He would then say: “ This is how Abraham used to fortify his sons Ishmael and Isaac”.

The fourth imam: “ Hasan son of Ali preached to people when Ali was murdered; he praised Allah and said: “ The man who has died today could have been not be surpassed by any of the ancients and no one of the later folk can catch up with him regarding deeds; Nabi used to give him his banner and he would fight with (archangels) Gabriel to his right and Michael to his left and he would not come back until Allah has bestowed victory upon him. He has not left behind any gold or silver save Seven-hundred dirhems remaining from his allowance, with which he was planning to purchase a servant for his family. He continued: “ O people, he who has known me, so he did and he who hasn’t, let him know that I am Hasan son of Ali, I am Nabi’s son, I am the Vice’s son, I am the Harbinger’s (bringer of good tidings) son, I am the Warner’s son, I am the son of the Caller unto Allah by His leave, I am the son of the Light-giving Lamp, I am from the household whom Gabriel used to descend to and ascend from, I am from the household whom Allah Has put away from them abomination and cleansed them, I am from a household whom Allah made loving them a duty upon every Moslem, thus His saying to His Nabi: { Say: I do not ask of you a wage for this, except love for the kinsfolk; and whosoever gains a good deed, We shall give him increase of good in respect of it}; so the meaning of gaining of the good deed is loving us, Nabi’s Household”.

Nabi was asked about the certain words that Adam received from his Lord for which He forgave him, God’s Nabi said: “ He asked Him, “ By the right Mohammed, Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husain have, that you forgive me”.

After leaving Aysha’s place Nabi passed by Fatima’s house and heard Husayn crying, so he said: “ Didn’t you know that his crying hurts me?”

God’s Nabi said: “ I am the scale of knowledge, Ali is its pans, Hasan and Husain are its strings, Fatima is its hook and the imams of my community are its column; in it the works of those who love us and those who hate us are weighed”.

God’s Nabi said: “ I swear by the One in whose Hand my life is! A man’s soul does not leave his body until it eats from the fruits of Paradise or from the Tree of Zakkoum (a tree in Hell), he sees Death’s Angel, he sees me, Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husain; if he used to love us, I will say O Death’s Angel, treat him gently because he used to love me and my household; and if he used to hate me and my household, I will say, O Death’s Angel, be severe towards him because he used to hate me and my household. Only a believer loves us and only a wretched hates us”.

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