{
 "id": "group/ahl-al-bayt",
 "class": "group",
 "slug": "ahl-al-bayt",
 "label": {
  "en": "Ahl al-Bayt",
  "ar": "أهل البيت"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "'The People of the House' — the Prophet's household: the family around whom the deepest loyalties and the deepest split in Islamic history would form.",
  "ar": "«أهل البيت» — بيت النبي: العائلة التي تشكّل حولها أعمق الولاءات وأعمق انقسام في تاريخ الإسلام."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship",
  "sects-and-schools"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "family",
  "made": {
   "by_muslims": true,
   "basis": "documented",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "family-of-the-prophet",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0622~"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "The family circle of the Prophet in Medina — its exact membership is itself a point of difference between traditions.",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "perspectives": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "summary": {
     "en": "Sunni tradition includes in Ahl al-Bayt the Prophet's wives together with Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn and their kin — honored by the verse of purification and the hadith of the cloak, without conferring religious authority on descent alone."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "academic",
    "summary": {
     "en": "Historians treat 'the house' as a sacred category that expanded with the community's later debates about leadership, its boundaries drawn differently at different moments."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/madelung-1997"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "shia-twelver",
    "summary": {
     "en": "Twelver Shia tradition defines Ahl al-Bayt as the people of the cloak — Muhammad, Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Husayn — and the line of Imams descended through them, bearers of the Prophet's religious authority."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/momen-1985"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sensitivity": "contested",
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/madelung-1997",
   "source/momen-1985"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "أهل البيت — بيت النبي الخاصّ — مصطلح تتنازعه التقاليد: عند أهل السنة يتّسع إلى الأزواج والأعمام، وعند الشيعة يضيق إلى [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|علي]] و[[person/fatima|فاطمة]] وذريتهما حملة الإمامة."
    },
    {
     "heading": "التاريخ",
     "markdown": "صكّ القرآن التعبير في «آية التطهير» (33:33) — فمن أهل السنة من قال الأزواج، ومن الشيعة من قال أهل الكساء: علي وفاطمة وحسن وحسين {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}. وبعد موت النبي تفرّعت الذرية بين العلوية والحسنية والعباسية، وقامت عليها دول في شرق الدنيا وغربها {cite:madelung-1997}.\n\nوفي التراث الإمامي هم المحور نفسه: الإمامة وراثة إلهية بيتية لا يشاركهم فيها غيرهم {cite:momen-1985}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "محبة أهل البيت فرض عند أهل السنة — واجب على من يصلّي على النبي — وعند الشيعة هي جوهر الدين؛ بيت فاطمة وحده من أعلى مرتبة في كلا التراثين {cite:madelung-1997}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/ahl-al-bayt",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 24,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/aisha",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "As a wife of the Prophet; the membership of Ahl al-Bayt is itself contested and shown under perspectives on the group page."
  },
  {
   "to": "person/fatima",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/hafsa",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "As a wife of the Prophet; membership is itself contested and shown under perspectives on the group page."
  },
  {
   "to": "person/hasan-ibn-ali",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/husayn-ibn-ali",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/safiyya-bint-huyayy",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "As a wife of the Prophet; membership is itself contested and shown under perspectives on the group page."
  },
  {
   "to": "person/umm-habiba-bint-abi-sufyan",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "As a wife of the Prophet."
  },
  {
   "to": "person/umm-salama",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "As a wife of the Prophet; membership is itself contested and shown under perspectives on the group page."
  },
  {
   "to": "person/zaynab-bint-ali",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-hashim",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/muhammad",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ali-ibn-abi-talib",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/medina",
  "person/muhammad",
  "person/fatima",
  "place/mecca",
  "group/banu-hashim",
  "person/hasan-ibn-ali",
  "person/husayn-ibn-ali",
  "person/zaynab-bint-ali"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}