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Some Traditions that Appear to Conflict with Hadith al­Thaqalayn - Follow those who will come after me, Abu Bakr and `Umar.

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 "Follow those who will come after me, Abu Bakr and `Umar."

Shah `Abd al-`Aziz advances another tradition ascribed to the Prophet (S) in this context for which he claims a degree of prevalence (shuhrah) nearing tawatur:



    Follow those who will come after me, Abu Bakr and `Umar.

Hamid Husayn points out that the claim of shuhrah is untenable and that a number of Sunni authorities have found fault with it or considered it as baseless, such as:

    Abu Hatim al-Razi, al-Bazzaz and Ibn Hazm as mentioned in Fath al-Qadir fi sharh al-Jami` al-saghir, ii, 52;
    al-Tirmidhi, Sahih, v, 672;
    al-`Uqayli, al-Du`afa';
    al-Naqqash, as mentioned in Mizan al-'i`tidal, i, 142;
    al-Darqutni, as mentioned in Lisan al-mizan, v, 237;
    al-`Ibri al-Farghani in Sharh al­Minhaj, MS;
    al­Dhahabi, Mizan al­'i`tidal, i, 105;
    Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani, Lisan al­mizan, i, 188, 272, v, 237; and
    Shaykh al-'Islam al-Harawi, al­Durr al­nadid, 97.

Ibrahim ibn Isma`il, Isma`il ibn Yahya, Yahya ibn Salamah ibn Kuhayl and Abu al­Za`ra', who have transmitted it have been considered unreliable transmitters by Abu Zur`ah, Abu Hatim, Ibn Numayr, al­Darqutni, al­Bukhari, al­Nasa'i, Ibn Mu`in, Ibn Hibban, al-Tirmidhi and others.

The narrations cited above are advanced by Shah `Abd al-`Aziz to make the point that if Hadith al-Thaqalayn be considered as signifying the imamah of the Imams of the Ahl al-Bayt (A) then these traditions must also be construed as signifying the imamah of al-Humayra', `Ammar, Ibn Mas`ud, Mu`adh ibn Jabal, Abu Bakr and `Umar. Sayyid Hamid Husayn points out that such a conclusion would follow if the traditions advanced were authentic. But as established, in the `Abaqat, all of them are weak and unreliable ahad, which have no weight in comparison with Hadith al-Thaqalayn, which is a mutawatir tradition narrated widely by the leading traditionists and scholars of the Ummah from the Shi`ah and the Ahl al-Sunnah.

 

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