Ali Ibn Abi Talib - Volume 2 of 2

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Prophet (&). The Mutazilites, Kharijites, Murja'is and Sunnis all
agreed on a view different from that of the Imami Shia in all that we
have mentioned."787
An-Noon at-Tubrusi (d. 1320 AH), one of their senior scholars
in later times, wrote a huge volume called Fasl al-Khitcib fi Zthbcit
Tahreef Kitcib Rabb al-Arbcib (The Ultimate Proof of the Distortion
of the Book of the Lord of Lords) to prove the R2fidi Shiite claims
about the ~ur'an.~" He began with three introductions, followed by
two chapters entitled: "On the evidence for the distortion of the
Qur'an" and "Refutation of those among the Ummah who say that
the Qur'an is sound."
In his book, at-Tnbrusi quoted thousands of reports to show
that the Qur'an has been distorted as they claim. The first chapter is
composed of twelve sections; in the last two sections alone, he quotes
1602 reports. This is in addition to what he quoted in the other
sections of this chapter, in the three introductions and in the second
chapter. Apologising for the small number of reports that he had
collected, he said: "We are quoting reports to support the idea even
though we do not know about all the reports."7x9 To prove the
authenticity of these reports, he wrote: "It should be noted that these
reports are transmitted from the reliable books that our scholars refer
to in order to decide about Sharia rulings and the Prophet's
~unnah."~~' After including a long list of names of their scholars
who believe that the Qur'an has been distorted, a list that took up to
five pages of his book, he said: "On the basis of the names that I have
listed, even though I cannot claim that I included everyone, we can
claim that this view is the prominent view among the earlier scholars,
and those who differed with them are limited to a few individuals
whom we shall mention be~ow."'~' Then he said that those who held
a different view were: as-Sadooq, al-Murta&i and Shaykb at-Tiifah
at-Toosi. He said: "No one among the earlier scholars is known to
have agreed with them."792