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Therefore, if the meaning is Abu Bakr and Ali; people such
that because of the superiority as Salman, Abu Dharr, Miqdad,
of Ali over Abu Bakr and Jabir, Abu Saʽid al-Khudri and
Umar of the word “Rafiḍia” is Zayd ibn Arqam, Imam Ali is
applied to Shia, it is clear that considered superior to others.
superiority does not cause Therefore, if we consider
abandonment of religion; because superior as a criterion of
the superiority of Imam Ali “Rafḍh”, we should consider
over Abu Bakr and Umar the most of the predecessors
among the Shiites is due to the and narrators of the hadith as
reasons that make him superior “Rafiḍia”, and this kind of
to the caliph; as has been approach is only due to
confirmed by some Sunni prejudice; as one of the Sunni
scholars, the virtue of the writers has said in this regard
Majesty has been confirmed; after quoting the virtues and
like the scholars of Baghdadion, perfections of Imam Ali:
including Bushr ibn Mu'ammar, Ali virtues cannot be
Abu Ja'far al-Skafi, Abu al- denied and the denial of
Hasan Khiya Mahmoud Balkhi virtues and the relation
and his students. Also, Juba'i of “Rafḍh” to its believers
from Sunni scholars said: “If can not be done except
the narration narrated by Taer from the fanatics.
is correct, Ali is better.
(Ibn Abi'l-Hadid, Vol. 1) He also says: “If the
He narrates that the Prophet narration of the Ali virtues is
asked God to bring the best based on “Rafḍh” and abandonment
person to his table, then Ali of the Sunnah, nothing can be
entered and both of them found from the narrators and
wanted heavenly food together. the wisdom of the hadith, so
Ibn 'Abd al-Barr has also avoid prejudice in religion and
said that the predecessors accept what is true and certain”.
differed in the superiority of (Taftazani, 1957: 230)
