blog in defence of complete Ahlebayt

[Abdullah786]

Re: blog in defence of complete Ahlebayt

@Geist

you failed to answer my question. so my question remains. Why was Fatima not included in the verse 33:33? Since you claim that Ahle Bayt include the entire “family” then the relation of daughter/son is the only relation that is indissoluble. The relationship of wife is not even permanent since it can end any time and following from this simple logic, Fatima was already included in the verse 33:33 and there was no need to make a special dua for her again. If “Ahle Bayt” only refered to the wives then why wasnt the word “wives” used in the verse 33:33?

firstly, if you read quran you will find that where ever quran mentions Ahlebayt/Ahl it is refering to the wife, refer this:

Usage of word Ahl/Ahlebayt in Quran

Secondly , though Ahlebayt means all the members of the family, but even few members of a larger family can also be addressed as Ahlebayt..

for example: if there are 10 members in your AHlebayt, but you give a gift to 4 of those members.. you can make a statement that i gave gift to my ahlebayt, but this doesnt neccessarily mean that all the members of Ahlebayt got that gift. This is common in arabic language.

Let me give you examples from classical arabic literature:

Sahi bukhari (Volume 6 hadith 274)…“So Allah’s Apostle got up (and addressed) the people an asked for somebody who would take revenge on ‘Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul then. Allah’s Apostle, while on the pulpit, said, “O Muslims! Who will help me against a man who has hurt me by slandering my family**(ahli bayti)**? By Allah, I know nothing except good about my family, and people have blamed a man of whom I know nothing except good, and he never used to visit my family except with me,”…

comment: we know that prophet(Saw) was talking about hz ayesha(ra) on whom the hypocrites made accusations.. So we see that prophet(Saw) just mentioned one wife as Ahlebayt.

Another example: Sahih Bukhari, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 316 : Narrated Anas: A banquet of bread and meat was held on the occasion of the marriage of the Prophet to Zainab bint Jahsh. I was sent to invite the people (to the banquet), and so the people started coming (in groups). They would eat and then leave. Another batch would come, eat and leave. So I kept on inviting the people till I found nobody to invite.
Then I said, “O Allah’s Prophet! I do not find anybody to invite.”
He (the Prophet) said, “Carry away the remaining food.” Then a batch of three persons stayed in the house chatting. The Prophet left and went towards the dwelling place of Aisha and said, “Peace and Allah’s Mercy be on you(KUM), Ya Ahlel Bayt (O the people of the house)!”
She replied, “Peace and the mercy of Allah be on you too. How did you find your wife? May Allah bless you.”
Then he went to the dwelling places of all his other wives and said to them the same as he said to Aisha and they said to him the same as Aisha had said to him.

comment: you see prophet(Saw) mentioning one wife as Ahlebayt..

And there are many other examples if you want..

So we see that since the context of 33:33 is that the verse before and after were being addressed to wives of prophet(Saw) we find that the ones addressed there with the word Ahlebayt were wives of prophet(Saw).