Ali Mamsus Fi Zat Allah (hadith): Difference between revisions

{{Arabic Large|لَا تَسُبُّوا عَلِیّاً فَإِنَّهُ مَمْسُوسٌ فِی ذَاتِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَی<ref>Montajab al-Dīn al-Rāzī, al-Arbaʿūn Ḥadīthan ʿan Arbaʿīn Shaykhan ʿan Arbaʿīn Ṣaḥābīyan fī Faḍāʾil al-Imām Amīr al-Muʾminīn (a), Qom, Madrasat al-Imām al-Mahdī, 1st ed., 1988, p. 54, hadith no. 26.</ref>   

Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad: Not mentioned in Shia biographical sources; considered unknown.   

Hārūn ibn Sulaymān al-Baṣrī: Not found in Shia or Sunni biographical works.   

Sufyān ibn Bishr al-Kūfī: Absent in Shia works; considered unknown by Sunni scholars.<ref name=":0">Albānī, Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn, Silsilat al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfa wa al-Mawḍūʿa, Riyadh, Dār al-Maʿārif, 1992, vol. 2, p. 299.</ref>   

Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād: Regarded as unknown in biographical sources.<ref>Jawāhirī, Muḥammad, al-Mufīd min Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, p. 669.</ref>   

Isḥāq ibn Kaʿb ibn ʿUjrah: Considered unknown by Sunni scholars.<ref>Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Taqrīb al-Tahdhīb, Beirut, Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2nd ed., 1995, vol. 1, p. 84.</ref>   

Kaʿb ibn ʿUjrah (father of Isḥāq): Companion of [[Prophet Muhammad (s)]] and [[Imam Ali (a)]].<ref>Khuʾī, Abū al-Qāsim, Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth, vol. 14, p. 117.</ref>   

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥuṣayrī al-Baṣīr: Regarded as [[trustworthy (thiqah)]] by some Sunni hadith scholars.<ref>Dhahabī, Muḥammad, al-Kāshif fī Maʿrifat man lahu Riwāya fī al-Kutub al-Sitta, Jeddah, Dār al-Qibla, 1st ed., 1992, vol. 1, p. 632.</ref><ref>Subkī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyya al-Kubrā, n.p., Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Kutub al-ʿArabiyya, n.d., vol. 7, p. 150.</ref>

[[Fayḍ Kāshānī]], an 11th-century Shia philosopher and traditionist, interpreted mamsūs fī dhāt Allāh as one who has detached from self and united with God—seeing all powers as reflections of divine power.<ref name=":1" /> He believed such a person sees all knowledge and perfection as emanating from God.<ref name=":1">Fayḍ Kāshānī, Muḥammad Muḥsin, al-Wāfī, Isfahan, Imām Amīr al-Muʾminīn Library, 1st ed., 1986, vol. 3, p. 515.</ref>   

[[Sayyid ʿAlī Khān al-Madanī]], a 12th-century Shia scholar, argued that such a person should not be insulted, as all his attributes and perfections are divine.<ref>Kabīr al-Madanī, ʿAlī Khān, Riyāḍ al-Sālikīn fī Sharḥ Ṣaḥīfat Sayyid al-Sājidīn, Qom, Islamic Publishing Office, 1st ed., 1989, vol. 1, p. 34.</ref>   

Some have interpreted mamsūs as being passionately in love or deeply attracted. [[ʿAllāma Majlisī]] interpreted this hadith as reflecting Imam ʿAlī’s deep love for God, to the extent that he appeared madly in love with Him. He also suggested that it may mean that Ali’s flesh and blood were imbued with divine love.<ref>Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir, Biḥār al-Anwār, Beirut, Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 2nd ed., 1983, vol. 39, p. 313.</ref>   

Others believe that the Prophet (s) described Imam ʿAlī (a) as mamsūs fī dhāt Allāh to mean “madly in love with God,” as someone who—like a madman—fears no one’s judgment in the path of God.<ref>Raḥmānī Hamadānī, Aḥmad, Imām ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, n.p., Munir Cultural Publishing Center, 1st ed., 1998, p. 132.</ref>