Day 2

The lesson

1. He was the first man to believe in the Prophet, at the age of ten, and prayed with him in the hills around Mecca (al-Ghadir of al-Amini; Tarikh al-Tabari). Ahmad ibn Hanbal narrates that the Prophet told Fatima he was marrying her to the one of his community who accepted Islam before anyone else, and who was the most learned and the most patient of them (Fada'il Amir al-Mu'minin of Ahmad ibn Hanbal).
2. When the Prophet gathered the sons of Abd al-Muttalib and asked who would help him and be his brother, executor and successor, only Ali, the youngest of them, answered; the Prophet said: This is my brother and my successor among you; listen to him and obey him (Tarikh al-Tabari).
3. On the night of the Hijra he slept in the Prophet's bed while the assassins of Quraysh surrounded the house, so that the Prophet could leave unseen (al-Kamil of Ibn al-Athir; Bihar al-Anwar). The exegetes say that 2:207, Among the people is he who sells his soul seeking the pleasure of God, was revealed about this (al-Tafsir al-Kabir of al-Fakhr al-Razi; al-Mizan of al-Tabataba'i). He then paid the Prophet's debts and returned the trusts left with him, and migrated with Fatima bint Asad and Sayyida Fatima.

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