Even Disbelievers Benefitted from the Mawlid of the Prophet (s.a.w.)

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Expressing happiness and celebrating the Prophet (s.a.w.) on his birthday causes even unbelievers, by Allah’s (s.w.t.) Favour and Mercy, to gain some benefit.  For example, every Monday, Abu Lahab ‘Abd al-‘Uzza ibn ‘Abd al-Muththalib, in his grave, is released from Punishment because he freed his handmaiden, Tsuwaybah (r.a.), when she brought him the news of the Prophet’s (s.a.w.) birth.  This hadits is mentioned in Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma’il al-Bukhari’s (r.a.) Swahih, in Kitab an-Nikah; in Imam ʽAbd ar-Razzaq ibn Hammam asw-Swan’ani (r.a.) Muswannaf; Imam Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas’ud al-Baghawi’s (r.a.) Sharh as-Sunnah; and Hafizh ‘Imad ad-Din Abu al-Fida’ Isma’il ibn ‘Umar ibn Katsir (r.a.) mentioned it in his books, Swirath an-Nabi, Mawlid al-Nabi, and al-Bidayah wa an-Nihayah. 

The hafizh, Imam Shams ad-Din Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr ad-Dimashqi (r.a.) wrote on this the following verse Surah al-Lahab:1, in his book, Mawrid as-Sadi fi Mawlid al-Hadi, “If this, a kafir who was Condemned to hell eternally with ‘Perish the hands’, is said to enjoy a respite every Monday because he rejoiced in Ahmad, what then do you think of the servant who, all his life, was happy with Ahmad, and died believing in Divine Unity?” 

سُوۡرَةُ لهب / المَسَد

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

تَبَّتۡ يَدَآ أَبِى لَهَبٍ۬ وَتَبَّ (١) 

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Perish the hands of the Father of Flame!  Perish he! (Surah al-Masad:1)