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dispersed. Additionally, he believed Accordingly, the commonalities
that using the term, referring and differences of sect
to the collective group, is not historiographers in the
correct, and instead, he held research problem are

on to the singular form of the expressed in the following
term Shi'a. (Razi, 2011: 73) table:

Table 1. Approaches to the Issue of Faith and Disbelief, Happiness and Misery

The issue Sunni Sect Historiographers Shia Sect Historiographers

Introduction of Sunni sects Introduction of Shia as a saved
as the saved sects sect
Faith and
Disbelief - Takfir of those who deny - denunciation of the claimants
seeing God, intercession, for the wrongful succession of the
and torment of the grave Prophet Muhammad

Introduction of the followers of

Happiness Introduction of Sunni sects the Prophet Muhammad and
and Misery as the saved sects Imam Ali (AS) as the saved sects

Based on sectarian
Conclusion viewpoints, one can infer that

Sect historiographers in the the majority of sect
first five centuries of AH, historiographers have been
generally took special care to influenced by their prior
organize their sectarianism by religious ideas about faith,

relying on the Hadith Iftiraq disbelief, happiness, and
of the Ummah. Therefore, misery among Islamic sects.
they decided to distinguish In other words, they

the saved sect from the attempted to express, either
heretical ones. overtly or covertly, their

tendency to see their sect as