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alaihim ajma’în’ but also every one of the thousands of pupils
educated by them gave various answers to all the slanderous
allegations of the many miscreants, thus inflicting a humiliating
defeat on them. Everybody sees this fact. Obviously these profound
scholars, who had educated such superior disciples and proved their
powerful competence by establishing essential methods and
principles for belief and worships and laying the religious problems
on firm, unshakable foundations, could not be expected to have
fallen into such a shameful position by falling short of answering a
jâriya’s questions; a person with common sense could not believe
this derogatory allegation. Another fact known by all groups of
Muslims is that there has not been a scholar superior to mujtahids
so far. Nor does any (Islamic) book make mention of a superior
scholar named Ibrâhîm Khâlid of Basra. The Jewish author of the
book Husniyya should have heard of Abû Sawr Ibrâhîm bin Khâlid
and fabricated his story over his name. Yet Abû Sawr was born in
Baghdâd, lived in Baghdâd, and passed away in Baghdâd in 240
(H.). He, let alone having taught five hundred scholars in Basra,
took lessons formerly from Imâm-i-a’zam’s disciples and later from
Imâm-i-Shâfi’î in Baghdâd.
3- The book quotes the jâriya as having said, “The As-hâb-ikirâm
became disbelievers because they made Abû Bekr their
Khalîfa after Rasûlullah’s death. Therefore the As-hâb deserves
being cursed. Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ stated:
After me my As-hâb will quote many hadîths. Most of these
hadîths will be false. Do not believe in the statements of my Ashâb
unless they are one of my Ahl-i-Bayt!” Modifying the hadîthi-sherîf,
“After me my Ummat (Muslims) will part into seventythree
groups. One of them will attain salvation. The remaining
seventy-two groups will go to Hell. This one group is those who
follow me and my As-hâb,” he (the author) transforms (the last
clause) into “those who follow me and my Ahl-i-Bayt.” Then the
jâriya is made to lapse into the heretical theory called Mu’tazila
with the following assertion:
“The jâriya, in order to prove that Qur’ân al-kerîm is a creature
and is not eternal, asked various questions, which the mujtahids
were unable to answer. Upon this, thousands of people who
attended the debates as auditors, Sunnite as they were, spat in the
mujtahids’ faces, all the people of Baghdâd applauded the jâriya
by clapping their hands. As the Khalîfa (Hârûn-ur-Reshîd) was
listening to the debate, she said that only the twelve imâms of the
Ahl-i-Bayt, and no one else, were rightful to caliphate and that the
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