The Devils Deception by Imam Ibn AL-Jawzi

Chapter Six· Devil's Deception of those from Our Ummah
If then this (the robbery) be all that they (the Prophet's () family)
got after his death, we are disappointed in our expectation that
what is transmitted is trustworthy, and we can have no further confidence
in that whereon we relied, via., that we were following persons
of intelligence. We have no guarantee that these people having
seen reasons compelling them to follow him may not have respected
them during his lifetime, but abandoned his Code after his death,
only a few of his family remaining in his religion. Thus beliefs will
be shaken, and the mind will have no courage to accept the traditions
concerning the basis of belief, i.e., the miracles. And this will
be most disastrous for the Shari'ah.
Among these (fabricated }:iadi:th) is one stating that once the sun
set before 'All was able to pray 'Ar, so it was raised back up. This
cannot be authentic because no trustworthy narrator has narrated
this }:iadi:th. The meanings contained in this }:iadi:th are also false,
because once the sun has set then the time for 'Ar prayer has passed,
and it would do no good for it to be returned. Now this is to be
rejected from the point of view of transmission, as no trustworthy
authority records it; and this does not make any sense and it sounds
absurd. The time having gone by, even supposing that a fresh rising
brought the sun back, the time will not have been brought back.
Similarly they fabricated a tradition to the effect, that Fatimah washed
herself, then died, having given instructions, that washing should
suffice. From the point of view of transmission this is a fiction, and
sounds stupid. For the washing is due to the impurity caused by
death, so how can it be valid before death?
They also have issues of fiqh Gurisprudence) that they have adopted
in opposition of scholary consensus. I have copied certain of their
questions from the writing of Ibn 'Aqil, who states that he copied
them from the treatise of al-Murtac;l.a concerning the opinions peculiar
to the al-I mdm!Jyah. Among them is: It would not be permissi-
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