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                  accepted this great insult             not  the  will  of  the
                  to the Prophet again and               Prophet. I stopped writing
                  accepted those people as               of  the  Prophet.  (Ibn  Abi
                  caliphs  and  religious                al-Hadid, 1958, Vol. 12: 78)

                  leaders.  (Majlisi,  2008,
                  Vol. 22: 487)                          Ibn  Abi  al-Hadid  has
                                                      confessed to several  things
                  Also,  Ibn  Abi  al-Hadid           in this story: One is that the

               Muʿtazili believes:                    second  caliph  made  a
                  Ibn Abbas says: In a trip,          distinction between the will
                  I  was  traveling  with  the        of  God  and  the  will  of

                  second caliph during his            Prophet.  Another  was  that
                  caliphate. He said to me:           he prevented the will of the
                  Does  your  cousin,  Ali,           Prophet for writing, and that

                  still  have  a  grudge              the second caliph considered
                  against  me  because  of            himself  to  be  more  aware
                  the  story  of  Saqifah?  I         than  the  Prophet,  and  that
                  said:  yes.  He  believes           what  he  said  in  this  story

                  that  the  Prophet  had             was  an  expression  of
                  chosen  him  to  be  a              disbelief  and  hypocrisy,
                  caliph.  The  caliph  said:         because, according to many

                  Prophet  asked  for  his            Quranic  verses,  opposition
                  pen  and  paper  to  write          to  the  Prophet  is  the  same
                  such  a  will,  but  the  will      as  opposing  God,  and  the

                  of God was not, and the             difference between God and
                  will of God was fulfilled,          the Prophet, according to the
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