Documents of the Right Word

with his nickname Saghîr, is a vulgarly bigoted holder of bid’at.
Also, there are two Ibni Qutaybas. Ibrâhîm ibni Qutayba is a
bid’at holder. Abdullah bin Muslim bin Qutayba, on the other
hand, is Sunnî. Each of these people has a book entitled Me’ârif.
Another name shared by two people is Muhammad ibni Jerîr
Taberî. One of these two people is Sunnî and wrote a great history
book. The other is a bid’at holder. The history book named Taberî
was abridged by a bid’at holder named Alî Shimshâtî.
The book Tuhfa quotes the twenty-seventh falsification of
Hurûfîs:
11- “A black maiden, a jâriya, praised the Shi’ah and censured
the Ahl as-sunna in Hârûn-ur-reshîd’s palace. There were scholars
of Ahl as-sunna, particularly Qâdî Abû Yûsuf. None of them could
answer her,” they say. The maiden’s name, as they forge, was
Husniya. Now a book named after her, Husniya, is being sold
throughout Anatolia. This story, contrary to their expectations, is
depreciatory to those scholars of their own aberrant way. For it
naturally leads one to the conclusion that “for many centuries
none of these people had been able to do what the jâriya did. In no
debate had they managed to refute the scholars of Ahl as-sunna
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ alaihim ajmâ’în’ as did the jâriya. They had
always been beaten. Had they learned the jâriya’s methods earlier,
they would have saved themselves from embarrassment.” It has
been clear that the stories in the book Husniya were written by a
person named Murtadâ. And that this Murtadâ was a Jewish
convert is written in the book Esmâ-ul-muallifîn.
12- After hadrat Alî’s martyrdom, followers of the Jew named
Ibni Saba’ infiltrated among the Muslims supporting hadrat
Hasan. Forty thousand people elected him Khalîfa among
themselves and provoked him to fight hadrat Mu’âwiya. Their aim
was to do the same thing with him as they had done with hadrat Alî
and to martyr him. They were showing disrespect to him. In fact,
in one of such occasions Mukhtâr Seqafî pulled his prayer rug from
under his blessed feet. At some other time another accursed villain
hit him on the foot with a pickaxe. When the two armies met, they
saw that hadrat Mu’âwiya was going to win and deserted hadrat
Hasan’s army. One of their own men, a zindiq named Murtadâ,
writes about these treacheries of theirs shamelessly in his book
Tenzîh-ul-enbiyâ. In fact, it is stated in their book Kitâb-ul-fusûl
that followers of Ibni Saba’, who were on hadrat Hasan’s side in
the beginning, wrote a letter to hadrat Mu’âwiya, saying, “Attack
now! We shall leave Hasan to you.” Being wise to these villains’
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