PROPER PEADING FOR MUHAMMAD�S DESCENDANTS

We close the �Book of Marriage and Divorce� by quoting one of the very last ahAdIs.  It is on a different subject but interesting.  �AlI, the Prophet�s son-in-law, says: �He who thinks that we [the members of the Prophet�s family] read anything else besides the book, of Allah and the SahIfa [a small book or pamphlet that was tied to the scabbard of his sword] tells a lie.  This SahIfa contains problems pertaining to the ages of the camels and the recompense of injuries, and it also records the words of the prophet. . . . He who innovates or gives protection to an innovator, there is a curse of Allah and that of his angels and that of the whole humanity upon him� (3601).

author : ram swarup