what is the definition of Ahl ul Bayt

[Ibn_Sadique]

@righteous

*Muslim - Book 001, Number 0141: * Zirr reported: 'Ali observed: By Him Who split up the seed and created something living, the Apostle (may peace and blessings be upon him) gave me a promise that no one but a believer would love me, and none but a hypocrite would nurse grudge against me.
This is a hadith from one of the most authentic books of Hadith for Ahl-e-sunnat. I will leave my argument here to answer this point.

To your post (quoted above) I had posted the following - but have noticed that you have not responded to it - Care to do so.

@Ibn_Sadique

brother ** righteous **– Have you ever met any Sunni who doesn’t love Hz. Ali (ra)??!! [of course not to the point where you want him to be loved]
He is among the righteous Khaleefs and the ten given the title Ashrah Mubashrah. There are thousands of narrations to confirm his exalted station.
Read the quotation below from Nahjul Balagha:
With regard to me, two categories of people will be ruined, namely he who loves me too much and the love takes him away from rightfulness, and he who hates me too much and the hatred takes him away from rightfulness. The best man with regard to me is he who is on the middle course. So be with him and be with the great majority (of Muslims) because Allah’s hand (of protection) is on keeping unity. You should beware of division because the one isolated from the group is (a prey) to Satan just as the one isolated from the flock of sheep is (a prey) to the wolf.
Beware; whoever calls to this course, kill him, even though he may be under this headband of mine. - **Part taken from Sermon 126 Nahj-ul-Balagha **
Please let me know who is this ‘great majority of muslims’ he is referring to – Surely not the 12ers – as they are not the ‘great majority of muslims’!
You may claim that he is referring to the 12ers as the great majority!!
If so, tell since when did 12ers ever become ‘the great majority of Muslims’ - they never have been so.
And where are you to place the Sunnis - ‘the great majority of Muslims’?
Are they not in the equation?