Dars e Imam-Rukya

“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem””Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)

Hafiz Ibn Kathir writes:”When Hafiz Ibn Taymiyya passed away some people came and gathered around him and sat close to his body to obtain blessing from him. Also a group of women came and they drank from the water that was left over after bathing him to get blessing from it as tabarruk.The left over leaves of a tree which were also used in bathing him were distributed among themselves for the purpose of tabarruk.Whatever touched his body, such as his handkerchief or scarf which he wore round his neck, was sold for a large amount of money, to someone to keep as tabarruk. People used to come day and night to his grave, and some people use to even spend the night there'”[Ta’rikh Ibn Kathir, chapter on ‘Death of Ibn Taymiya’]

If you may obtain blessing from the clothes or from the water which is left over from touching the body of Hafiz Ibn Taymiyya, then how can it be wrong to get blessing from the other pious people of Allah.Or how can that be called bid’a or an act of shirk?

Some people assert that there is no benefit (blessings) in items possessed by our Prophet ﷺ i.e. clothes, hair, and nails. Those who doubt narrate ahadith in which our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) gave a shirt to ‘Abdullah ibn Ubayy as tabarurk, which had no effect for his forgiveness.

The answer to this is that an unbeliever or a munafiq(hypocrite) will gain no benefit from our Prophet’s ﷺ tabarruk.’Abdullah ibn Ubayy was the leader of the munafiqin so how can he gain blessings from the shirt.Yes, a believer – such as the Companions -did benefit, as mentioned previously. They kept items such as shirts, hair, nails and clothes. Some even asked to be buried with these items.

The second answer to this question is provided by Hafiz Ibn Kathir:”There is a narration from the Salaf that the shirt which our Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) gave was not for tabarruk. This was because the munafiq gave a shirt to our Prophet’s ﷺ uncle, Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) and so it was in return only that our Prophet ﷺ repaid him”[Tafsir Ibn Kathir,9/82]

1) In Imam al-Bukhari’s version he says that Sa’id ibn Musayib said:‘My father told me when he went to look for the tree of bay’a, he could not recognize the place where it was and had forgotten the exact place where it was’ [i.e. it haddisappeared][Bukhari, chapter on ‘Al-Hudaybiya’]

2) Tariq ibn ‘Abdullah says:‘I saw one tribe there, who were performing their prayers.’

3) In the last moments of Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah, when he had lost his sight, he used to say: ‘If I could see today I would show you the tree where the Prophet ﷺ received the bay’a of the Companions”

[Bukhari, chapter on ‘al-Magazi’]

The above mentioned narrations prove:

1) The tree was not cut, but vanished.

2) Companions, such as Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah, knew where the tree was.

3) Tabi’un would go there to perform salat.

4) From the narration in Bukhari we can say no one was stopped to go there.

Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani says in the commentary: “Some people forgot where this place was, like Sa’id ibn al-Musayib’s father, and some knew where it was, like Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah.”[Fath al-Bari, chapter on ‘Bay’aRidwan’]

Sayyid Maududi writes that Imam at-Tabari said:”During the period of ‘Umar’s (may Allah be pleased with him) Khilafa, he went for pilgrimage. When he passed Al-Hudaybiya he asked: ‘Where is the tree under which the bay’a took place?’ A person replied:’This one.’ Someone else said: ‘[No, it is] this one.’ ‘Umar said: ‘Forget the inconvenience'”[Maududi, S., Tafsir Tafhim al-Qur’an,48/18]

Furthermore the narrator of the hadith of the tree is Muhammad ibn Wadda and Imam al-Bukhari has said that he is not reliable [al-‘Asqalani, Tahzib at-Tahzib, Biography of Ibn Wadda].This must be the reason why Hafiz Ibn Kathir has not mentioned the narration about the cutting of the tree in his Tafsir, Ta’rikh, and not even in Sirat an-Nabi.The evidence above proves that it is permitted to get tabarruk from the pious people and their

things in their life and after death. The Ahl as-Sunna’s belief is based upon the above evidence. However, there are many more similar events proving the permissibility of tabarruk.

The people who say that it is shirk/ kufr to believe in taburruk should have proof from either the Qur’an or Sunna. There is no hadith that proves that to get tabarruk from the pious is forbidden.

Hafiz Ibn Kathir and Qadi Shawkani write:”Amr ibn Shu’aib (may Allah be pleased with him) said that ‘Rasulu’llah ﷺ taught my father and grandfather a du’a which we would read before going to sleep, to protect us from fear and anguish.We told our elder children to recite this du’a before going to sleep as well.But for those children who were not yet literate, we would write it and then put it around their necks”[Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal vol.2; Abu Dawud, in ‘Chapter of Medicine’; Tafsir Ibn Kathir, under Sura al-Mu’minun, verse 97; and Qadi Shawkani, Fath al-Qadir, under the same verse]

Imam Muslim writes:” ‘A’isha (may Allah be pleased with her) relates that when the Prophet ﷺ was ill for the last time, she recited Sura al-Falaq and Sura an-Nas and then blew on to the Prophet’s (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) hands. The Prophet then blew this onto his own face and body because his hands had more blessing then ‘A’isha’s (may Allah be pleased with her)“[Muslim, Chapter of Tibb]

From the above narrations, it proves that to blow after reciting du’a’s onto the sick is Sunna and the more pious the person is, the more healing power he has because he is blessed more than the less pious.

Sohbat=reading their books,wazifas/awrad,talimat/teachings visiting them  etc etc

Sins=ordered to do (leaving) and prohibited not to do (doing)

Sins =1. shaitan/nafs (thought) 2. intention/irada (himmat/strength) 3.sudur or performance 4.adaat/repetition 5.fitrat 

When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)

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