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.