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Al-Husayn ibn 'Ali رضي الله عنه
Down from the Pulpit
Buraydah reported that the Prophet ﷺ was giving a sermon when al-Hasan and al-Husayn came in, wearing red shirts, walking and stumbling. He came down from the pulpit, picked them up and set them in front of him, and said that Allah had spoken the truth: ﴿إِنَّمَا أَمْوَالُكُمْ وَأَوْلَادُكُمْ فِتْنَةٌ﴾ (“Your wealth and your children are a trial”) (64:15). He said he had seen these two boys walking and stumbling and could not wait, so he interrupted his speech and lifted them (Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3774).
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Al-Hasan and al-Husayn are the leaders of the youth of the people of Paradise" (Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3768).
The Prophet ﷺ stopped a sermon for two stumbling children, and named them leaders in Paradise.
What important thing would you be willing to interrupt for a child who needs you?
- Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3774 Graded by Ahmad Muhammad Shakir: Sahih · Al-Albani: Sahih · Bashar Awad Maarouf: Hasan · Zubair Ali Zai: Isnaad HasanSahih
- Jami' al-Tirmidhi 3768 Graded by Ahmad Muhammad Shakir: Sahih · Al-Albani: Sahih · Bashar Awad Maarouf: Hasan Sahih · Zubair Ali Zai: SahihSahih
- Qur'an 64:15
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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