Ali in the Quran
The majority of Islamic commentators do not believe that Ali ibn Abi Talib is explicitly mentioned in the Quran.[d][1] However, many verses of the Quran have been interpreted, by both Shia and Sunni scholars, as referring to Ali.
Laylat al-Mabit is the night when the Islamic prophet Muhammad left the city of Mecca and began his migration to Medina. Many of the Meccan polytheists had planned to kill Muhammad on the night that he left Mecca. That night, Ali risked his life by sleeping in Muhammad’s bed so that Muhammad could leave Mecca safely. When the polytheists of Mecca went to Muhammad’s room with the aim of killing him, they instead found Ali in his bed.
The 207th verse of Surat al-Baqarah in the Quran is interpreted as having been revealed in this regard to show the sacrifice of Imam ‘Ali for saving the life of the Islamic Prophet .
In the year 10 AH (631/32 CE), a Christian envoy from Najran (now in southwestern Saudi Arabia) came to Muhammad to debate doctrines regarding ‘Īsā (Arabic: عِـيْـسَى, Jesus). After Muhammad likened Jesus’ miraculous birth to the creation of Ādam (Arabic: آدَم, Adam),[e]—who was born to neither a mother nor a father — and when the Christians did not accept the Islamic doctrine about Jesus, Muhammad was instructed to call them to Mubahalah where each party should ask God to destroy the false party and their families .
“But whoever disputes with you in this matter after what has come to you of knowledge, then say: Come let us call our sons and your sons and our women and your women and our near people and your near people, then let us be earnest in prayer, and pray for the curse of Allah on the liars.
Many historians, both Shia and Sunni, state that the people that Muhammad brought to the Mubahalah were Ali, Fatimah, Hasan, and Husain. Accordingly, in the verse of Mubahalah, it has been stated the phrase “our sons” refers to Hasan and Husayn, “our women” refers to Fatimah, and that “ourselves” refers Muhammad and Ali .
