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Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya

محمد بن الحنفية

Ali's son by a Hanifa woman — the dying caliph commended him to honour his brothers and charged them 'he is your sword and your father's son; honour him and know his right' 1.

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Son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (may God be pleased with him) by a woman of the Banu Hanifa. When his father was dying, he charged him to honour his two brothers al-Hasan and al-Husayn, charged them with him, and said that he was their sword and the son of their father. 2

Ibn al-Zubayr

Al-Mas'udi relates that Ibn al-Zubayr spoke against Ali in his sermon, and Ibn al-Hanafiyya came and set a chair for him in front of the pulpit, and defended his father in the presence of Quraysh. 3

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Muwatta 95

People and things also explored

Ritual purity· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Abdullah ibn Abbas· al-Miqdad ibn Amr· Ali ibn Abi Talib· Fatima bint Muhammad· Muhammad· Sulayman ibn Yasar

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 703
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.703
  3. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.76-77
  • The Umayyad State — Bakr Muhammad Ibrahim Bakr (1st ed., Markaz al-Raya lil-Nashr wal-I'lam, Cairo 2002)
  • Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi
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Ritual purity

Ritual purity in the jurists' terminology is lifting the state of ritual impurity and removing filth with water or tayammum; the hadith of Abu Malik al-Ash'ari sets it in a sweeping faith-scale — 'purity is half of faith', transmitted by Muslim (223), worded 'the ablution is half of faith' in al-Tirmidhi's route and 'perfecting the ablution is half of faith' in Mu'awiya ibn Salam's route in Ibn Majah; within the same hadith it stands alongside the scale-filling praise, prayer as light, almsgiving as proof, patience as radiance and the Qur'an as argument, so that purity is one of the measures by which a servant's works are weighed on the Day of Resurrection, as Ibn Rajab's commentary presents it.