Documents of the Right Word

âyat of Qiyâmat sûra, which reads, “Alainâ jam’a hu wa Qur-
’âna,” and changed it to, “Alîyan jama’a Qur’âna,” which means,
“Alî compiled the Qur’ân.” Mad with inordinate bigotry, they
attempt to allege that ’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu anh’ expunged the
âyats praising the Ahl-i-Bayt from Qur’ân al-kerîm. As we have
explained above, in our discourse on their various groups, some of
their groups say that it is permissible to bear false witness when
and where it is considered useful. For this reason, any term of
reproach would fall short of giving them their deserts. It would be
sheer credulity to take them on trust, or to think they are right.
Their books cannot be trusted. They are like the changed, defiled
copies of the Torah and the Bible. The books of the Ahl assunnat,
on the other hand, are as secure as steel. For instance,
Bukhârî is the second most correct book after Qur’ân al-kerîm.
There are many hadith-i-sherîfs praising the three Khalîfas in this
book, as well as in the book Muslim and many another valuable
book. These books do not contain any statement vilifying or
reproving the three Khalîfas. Inferring such meanings as belittle
the three Khalîfas from âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs is a
sign of malevolence. What they infer is wrong, and what they
suppose is out of place and illusory. This misconception of theirs
is like the case with a person with deranged bile; this person will
not enjoy the real taste of sugar because something sweet will
taste bitter to him. Allâhu ta’âlâ defines these people as follows in
the seventh âyat of ’Imrân sûra, which purports: “People with
deranged hearts, in order to cover the truth and instigate mischief,
will infer wrong meanings from Qur’ân al-kerîm, thus deviating
into heresy.” Among the Ahl as-sunna people, there have been
those saying that it would be permissible to call a useful statement
a hadîth; yet the scholars of Hadîth have rejected this and
explained in their books that such hadîths are false and
slanderous. No one has valued them or adhered to them as
hadîths. Therefore, it is an altogether irrelevant and nonsensical
argumentation to introduce the so-called statement as an
evidence. It is out of place also to say, “It is not disbelief not to
obey a hadîth reported by only one person. For some of the
mujtahids of Ahl as-sunna have not obeyed such hadîths.” A few
of the hadîth-i-sherîfs praising and exalting the three Khalîfas
were reported by one Sahabî, yet they have been narrated
through various ways by many people and they have thus reached
the degree of tawâtur. It is certainly disbelief to deny them. None
of the mujtahids has disobeyed such hadîths. In fact, Imâm A’zam
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