Who Are The Unbelievers

The knowledgeable scholar Abu Najm Mohammad bin Abdul Wahhab bin Isa Al-Razi narrated from Abu Saeed Mohammad bin Ahmad bin Husain Al-Neishabouri, from Abu Bakr Mohammad bin Ahmad bin Hasan Al-Khatib Al-Dainouri, from Abul Hasan Ali bin Ahmad bin Mohammad bin Al-Bazzaz, from Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Maruz Al-Hashimi Al-Halabi, from Ali bin Adel Al-Qattan, from Mohammad bin Tamim Al-Waset’y, from Hammani, from Shareek, who said:

I went to visit Sulayrnaan Al-Aamash when he was ill with the illness that took his life. Ibn Abi Leyla, Ibn Sheyrama, and Abu Hanifa (la) entered the house.

Abu Hanifa (la) approached Sulayrnaan Al-Aamash and said, “O Sulayrnaan! Be pious! Understand that you are about to enter the first day of the Hereafter and the last day of this life. You used to narrate many Ahadith  about Ali bin Abi Taleb (as) , and it would be better for you if you did not do this.”

Sulayrnaan replied, “How dare you say something like this to me?” Then Sulayrnaan asked us to help him sit him up, so we did.

Then he (Sulayrnaan) said to Abu Hanifa, (la)

“Abu Motawakkel At-Naji told me that he heard Abu Saeed Al-Khodri narrate from the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) who said‘On the Day of Judgement, Allah will tell Me (s.a.w.w.)  and Ali bin Abi Taleb (as) to take everyone who loved us to Paradise, and to take everyone who hated us to Hell, “Cast you two every unbeliever rebel into Hell” (50:24).

Then Abu Hanifa (la) said to us, “Let’s go. There is nothing worse than this.”

Sulayrnaan said, “Faz’l told me that he asked Hasan bin Ali (a.s.) to explain who the unbeliever and the rebel are in this verse.

And Hasan bin Ali (as) replied, ‘Unbelievers are those who do not believe in my grandfather (as) , and rebels are those who deny the rights of my father, Ali bin Abi Taleb (a.s.)”

(Bihar Al Anwar 47:357. 39:196, 47:412. Amaali of Tousi 2:241. Arbaeen Montajab Al-Deen 52.)