It is written by Ibni ’Âbidîn ‘’alaihirrahma’, as he starts dealing with ‘nikâh’ of a disbeliever in his commentary to Durr-ul mukhtâr; also by Ahmad Hamawî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’, in the subject ‘Hazar wa-l-ibâha’ in his commentary to Eshbâh; and also [1] In Arabic, the words ‘mâ’ and ‘lâ’ make the meaning of the verb negative. ‘Mâtû’ means ‘they died.’ ‘Mâ-mâtû’ means ‘they didn’t die.’ When ‘mâ’ in front of the sentence ‘They didn’t die as disbelievers’ is erased, it becomes ‘They died as disbelievers.’(by Nişancızâde Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Ramadân ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, as he makes various quotations from Islamic scholars) in Mir’ât-i-kâinât: “According to great savants, who have realized the truth, we shouldn’t talk on whether our Prophet’s ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ parents were Believers or not, and we should watch our manners when discussing it. It has been stated in a hadîth-i-sherîf:
‘Do not hurt the living by speaking ill of the dead.’ It does not bring harm upon one not to talk about it or not to learn it, nor will it be asked in the grave or on the day of Judgment.” And again, they say: “Allâhu ta’âlâ, as a blessing on our Prophet, enlivened his parents during his farewell hajj. They believed His Prophet. A sahîh hadîth[1] quoted by Muhammad bin Abû Bakr and Ibni Nâsir-ud-dîn declares this fact. By the same token, His enlivening a man killed by the Banî Isrâil and the man’s giving information about his murderer and His enlivening many dead people with the prayers of Hadrat Îsâ and Hadrat Muhammad were all blessings. It is incorrect to say that the âyat ‘Do not ask My pardon on behalf of those who are for Hell’ is about Rasûlullah’s blessed parents. As for the hadîth-i-sherîf ‘My father and your father are in the fire,’ which is quoted in Muslim; it was said with ijtihâd. It was declared afterwards that they had îmân.” It is written in the book Ahwâl-u atfâl-il-muslimîn that it had ben declared so about the two sons of Hadrat Khadîja, too, but afterwards it was stated that they were not in Hell.
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