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The Perspectives of Sect Histrographers… H.R. Qolizadeh & E. Touran (85
salvation, while other groups whoever does not acquire
have been wretched or misled. knowledge is not a believer.
The Rafida is divided into So, they went astray and
Saba'iyyah, Zaydiyyah, Imamiyyah, perished because they did not
and Ghulat, in the book “Al- know. (Ibid: 180)
Farq bayn al-Firaq”. Similarly, he applied the
Baghdadi explained that phrase “They went astray and
the initial group of Rafida were doomed” to describe
was the Saba'iyyah, who other sects, including the
considered Imam Ali as God. Qadariyah. (Ibid: 179)
After Him, Rafida was
divided into four groups, all - Shia Sect Historiographers
of which attributed to each Abu-Hatim Razi viewed the
other as infidels. However, he Shia community, led by Imam
eventually considered all of them Ali, as the saved sect. He
misguided and identified the believed that other sects were
saved sect as the people of the foolish and deviant. From his
Sunnah. (Baghdadi, 1988: 15) point of view, these
organizations are the minority,
Hakim Samarqandi, in
“Sawad A'zam”, citing Hadith and the true Muslims are
Iftiraq, stated that all of them those who adhere to Imam
will be in Hell except for the Ali's teachings; all other
saved sect, who are the Muslims have strayed from
people of the Sunnah. (Hakim the fundamentals of Islam and
Samarqandi, 2014: 166) are no longer part of the true
He also mentioned the Islamic faith.
misery and destruction of It is necessary to state that
certain sects, such as the Abu-Hatim referred to Mu’awiya's
Beihasiyah who are considered supporters, whom he considered
a group of Kharijites, and to be lying as parties since, in
said that faith is knowledge, his opinion, both the Sunnis
and Mu’awiya's adherents are
