Documents of the Right Word

They knew the group they were fighting against as their brothers.
(After a very short time) they stopped fighting them. Hadrat Alî
accepted their judgements. The name Shî’ah was attached to this
group first, and people who followed this group were called Ahl
as-Sunna wa’l-jamâ’at.
2- The group who held hadrat Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ higher
than all the other Sahâbîs were called Tafdîliyya. Hadrat Alî tried
to dissuade them by threatening them with flogging. The word
Shî’ah represents this group today.
3- The group who said that all the Sahâba ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ
anhum ajma’în’ were sinners and disbelievers. These people were
called Saba’iyya or Hurûfî.
4- The group called Ghulât, who were the most unreasonable,
were the most heretical of the four groups. They asserted that
Allah had entered hadrat Alî.
When hadrat Huseyn’s son Imâm Zeynel’âbidîn Alî passed
away when he was forty-eight years old in the ninety-fourth year
of the Hegira, his son Zeyd bin Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum
ajma’în’ revolted against Khalîfa Hishâm and marched to Kûfa
with an army. Yet, when hadrat Zeyd heard that his soldiers were
swearing at the As-hâb-i-kirâm, he advised them to stop doing so.
This made most of his soldiers abandon him. Having to defend
himself with the very few soldiers who remained faithful to him, he
was finally martyred in 122. Those who left him called themselves
Imâmiyya. And the faithful ones who stayed with Zeyd were called
Zeydiyya.
According to the Ahl as-sunna, who were Alî’s Shî’ah, hadrat
Alî was the highest of his time. Caliphate was his right. Those who
disagreed with him were wrong and became bâghîs (rebels against
the Khalîfa). Hadrat Âisha, Talha, Zubeyr, Mu’âwiya, Amr Ibni
Âs and the other Sahâbîs ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum ajma’în’ who
fought hadrat Alî did not do so for the office of caliphate. They
protested him because hadrat ’Uthmân’s murderers had not been
found and retaliated against. They were about to come to an
agreement, when Abdullah bin Saba’ and his men started the fight,
and everything happened after that. All the Sahâbîs fighting
hadrat Alî were saying that caliphate was his right and that he was
higher than themselves. They were praising him. And hadrat Alî
loved and praised those Sahâbîs who fought him.
10- Hurûfîs say that “The Ahl-i-Bayt castigated the As-hâb-ikirâm
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhum ajma’în’ and lamented over the
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