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Al-Husayn ibn 'Ali رضي الله عنه
"Husayn Is from Me"
Al-Husayn was born in Madinah in Sha'ban, 4 AH, about a year after his brother al-Hasan. The Prophet ﷺ named him, and the two boys grew up in and around their grandfather's house and mosque.
Ya'la ibn Murrah reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Husayn is from me and I am from Husayn. Allah loves whoever loves Husayn" (Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3775).
"From me and I am from him" is a phrase of the closest belonging. The Prophet ﷺ was not only praising a child; he was telling his community that the boy carried something of him.
To love al-Husayn is, by the Prophet's ﷺ own words, a way to be loved by Allah.
What does it mean to you that the Prophet ﷺ tied Allah's love to the love of his grandson?
- Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3775 Graded by Ahmad Muhammad Shakir: Hasan · Al-Albani: Hasan · Bashar Awad Maarouf: Hasan · Zubair Ali Zai: HasanHasan
- Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabaqat al-KubraHistorical report
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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