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Is it a condition for the Imam to be from Quraysh?

By Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
July 18, 2010
Is it a condition for the Imam to be from Quraysh?

"People are subservient to Quraysh in this matter: the Muslims among them to the Muslims among them, and the disbelievers among them to the disbelievers among them." (Sahih Muslim) His statement "from Abu Hurayrah": this hadith was transmitted by al-Bukhari in the beginning of Kitab al-Manaqib (no. 3495) and it was also transmitted by Ahmad in his Musnad (2:243, 261, 395, 433). His statement "People are subservient to Quraysh in this matter": the 'ulama adduced this as proof that Qurayshi ...
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