Where the wives of Prophet PBUH members of AhlulBayt? [Quran + Sahih Hadith]

✨The verse of Purification. 📚Surah: 33 Ayah: 32 -33👇

يا نِساءَ النَّبِيِّ لَستُنَّ كَأَحَدٍ مِنَ النِّساءِ ۚ إِنِ اتَّقَيتُنَّ فَلا تَخضَعنَ بِالقَولِ فَيَطمَعَ الَّذي في قَلبِهِ مَرَضٌ وَقُلنَ قَولًا مَعروفًا

O wives of the Prophet! You are not like any other women: if you are wary [of Allah], then do not be complaisant in your speech, lest he in whose heart is a sickness should aspire, and speak honourable words. 

وَقَرنَ في بُيوتِكُنَّ وَلا تَبَرَّجنَ تَبَرُّجَ الجاهِلِيَّةِ الأولىٰ ۖ وَأَقِمنَ الصَّلاةَ وَآتينَ الزَّكاةَ وَأَطِعنَ اللَّهَ وَرَسولَهُ ۚ إِنَّما يُريدُ اللَّهُ لِيُذهِبَ عَنكُمُ الرِّجسَ أَهلَ البَيتِ وَيُطَهِّرَكُم تَطهيرًا

Stay in your houses and do not display your finery with the display of the former [days of] ignorance. Maintain the prayer and pay the zakāt and obey Allah and His Apostle.
Indeed Allah desires to repel all impurity from you, O People of the Household, and purify you with a thorough purification.

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🔻in the above verses, when Allah is referring to the wives of the Prophet (s.a.w), the feminine plural pronoun is used, such as: 

من يات منكن - و من يقنت منكن - لستن - ان اتقيتن - تخضعن - وقرن - بيوتكن  

🔺But in the verse of purification, the masculine plural pronoun is used, such as:

 ليذهب عنكم - ويطهركم

🔶So it turns out that the addressee in the verse of purification is different from the addressee in the verses before and after the verse of purification.

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 The wives of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) were numerous and lived in different houses. Therefore, in verse 32, the sentence (وقرن في بيوتكن) [Stay in your Boyout (houses) ] is mentioned. whereas if the verse of purification included the wives of the Prophet (s.a.w) as well, the sentence (Ahl al-Boyout / people of the houses) should be written but now (Ahl al-Bayt / people of the house ) is written.

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According to the Sahih Muslim + other narrations, when the verse of purification was revealed, the Holy Prophet (PBUH) placed Imam Ali, Fatima, Hassan and Hussein under the Kisaa (cloak) and recited the holy verse.

👇 Here is the Sahih Muslim narration:

 قَالَتْ عَائِشَةُ خَرَجَ النَّبِيُّ صلي الله عليه وسلم غَدَاةً وَعَلَيْهِ مِرْطٌ مُرَحَّلٌ مِنْ شَعْر أَسْوَدَ فَجَاءَ الْحَسَنُ بْنُ عَلِيّ فَأَدْخَلَهُ ثُمَّ جَاءَ الْحُسَيْنُ فَدَخَلَ مَعَهُ ثُمَّ جَاءَتْ فَاطِمَةُ فَأَدْخَلَهَا ثُمَّ جَاءَ عَلِيٌّ فَأَدْخَلَهُ ثُمَّ قَالَ (إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنْكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَيُطَهِّرَكُمْ تَطْهِيرًا).

📚Sahih Muslim v.7 p.130 h.6414

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It is stated in Sahih Muslim that Zayd ibn Arqam was asked whether the wives of the Prophet (PBUH) are called Ahl al-Bayt of the Prophet or not? He replied that a man's wife is not considered a member of the family because a woman may live with a man for years, but at the end of her life she divorces and goes to her father's house and is considered a member of the father's family:

 إنّ زيد بن أرقم سئل عن المراد بأهل البيت هل هم النساء ؟ قال: لا / وأيم اللّه ، إنّ المرأة تكون مع الرجل العصر من الدهر ، ثمّ يطلّقها ، فترجع إلي أبيها وقومها.

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The wives of the Prophet have not claimed that the verse of purification includes them, rather they have quoted the opposite, such as Umm Salma, who said that after the revelation of the verse of purification and honoring the Holy Prophet Ali and Fatima and Hassan and Hussein (as), I went forward and I asked the Prophet PBUH whether I am also a member of Ahl al-Bayt or not? The Prophet PBUH replied: You are a good person and you are not a member of the Ahl al-Bayt, but you are one of the wives of the Prophet. 👇

عن أمّ سلمة، أنّ النبي صلي الله عليه وسلم جلل علي الحسن والحسين وعلي وفاطمة كساء ثمّ قال : «اللهم هؤلاء أهل بيتي وحامّتي أذهب عنهم الرجس وطهّرهم تطهيراً. فقالت أم سلمة : وأنا معهم يارسول الله ؟ قال: إنّك علي خير. هذا حديث حسن صحيح . وهو أحسن شئ روي في هذا الباب.

📚Sunan Trimidhi v.5 p.361

رواه الحاكم قائلا: هذا حديث صحيح علي شرط البخاري ولم يخرجاه. المستدرك: 2/ 416، 3/ 146.

🔺Al-Hakim said: This narration is Sahih according to the criteria of Bukhari. 📚Mustadrak 2 / 416. 3/146

➕ Next Hadith 👇

وروي أيضاً عن عن عمر بن أبي سلمة قال: (لما نزلت هذه الآية علي النبي (صلي الله عليه وآله): (إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ لِيُذْهِبَ عَنكُمُ الرِّجْسَ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ وَيُطَهِّرَكُمْ تَطْهِيرا) في بيت أم سلمة، فدعا فاطمة وحسناً وحسيناً، فجللهم بكساء وعلي خلف ظهره، فجلله بكساء، ثم قال: اللهم، هؤلاء أهل بيتي، فاذهب عنهم الرجس وطهرهم تطهيراً، قالت أم سلمة: وأنا معهم يا رسول الله؟ قال: أنت علي مكانك وأنت إلي خير).

وقال بعد نقل رواية اخري بعد ذلك: هذا حديث صحيح علي شرط مسلم ولم يخرجاه. المستدرك: 2/ 416.

🔺This narration is Sahih according to the criteriteria of Bukhari and Muslim. 📚Mustadrak 2/416

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In the narration narrated by Suyuti, Tabarani and Ahmad ibn Hanbal, it is stated that Umm Salma said that: "I went forward and took the side of Kisaa to enter. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) took the Kisaa from my hand and pulled it and did not allow me to enter the cloak:

 عن أمّ سلمة أنّها قالت: «فرفعت الكساء لأدخل معهم فجذبه من يدي وقال: إنّك علي خير .

📚Musnad Ahmad v. 6 p.323

📚Al Mu'jam Al Kabir Tabarani Vol. 3 p. 53

📚Al-Dur al-Manthur v.5 p.198

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Therefore, if someone gonna  claim that the wives of the Prophet (s.a.w) are also included among the Ahl al-Bayt, and the verse of their purification includes them as well, then he should take the cloak from the hands of the Prophet and forcefully pull the wives of the Prophet inside it.