Sahaba - The Blessed

perhaps have felt shame to say that “Imâm Shâfi’î was hostile
towards the Ahl-i-bayt.” Rebî’ bin Haysam ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’
related, “I saw Âdam ‘alaihis-salâm’ dead in my dream. (The next
morning, when I told my dream to people who were good at
interpreting dreams,) they said that the greatest scholar of our
time was going to die. For it was stated in an âyat-i-kerîma that
knowledge was a property of Âdam ‘alaihis-salâm’. Imâm Shâfi’î
passed away a few days later.”
3– “When Husniyya explained that her Madhhab was love of
Ahl-i-bayt-i-Rasûl and put forward her arguments, the scholars
were unable to answer her,” he writes. The Ahl-i-bayt-i-Rasûl and
all the Ashâb-i-kirâm were of the same creed. They were in the
path shown by the Qur’ân al-kerîm and hadîth-i-sherîfs.
As a matter of fact, Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’
states, “My Ashâb are like the stars in the sky. If you follow any
one of them you will be following the right path.” He does not say,
“some of my Ashâb,” or “only my Ahl-i-bayt.” He says, “my
Ashâb,” which means to say that they held the same creed. These
people, on the other hand, are trying to deceive Muslims by
calling their wrong stories and heretical beliefs ‘The madhhab of
Ahl-i-bayt’. If there had been a scholar in the so-called discussion,
the concubine would not even have been able to open her mouth.
The author (of the book Husniyya) attempts to blemish the
scholars of Ahl as-sunnat by asserting that they were not able to
answer her.
4– He says, (through the imaginary concubine), that “Alî
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ became a Believer as he was a child,” tries to
prove by means of lies and solecisms that “a child’s belief is
acceptable,” and simulates how the so-called concubine “refuted
the scholars by concluding that caliphate was Alî’s right.”
Misrepresenting the Ahl as-sunnat as having denied the fact
that Hadrat Alî ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ was a child when he became a
Believer, he alleges that the concubine put the Ahl as-sunnat
scholars to shame. The truth, however, is that all the Sunnî books
provide a detailed account of Imâm Alî’s ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’
becoming a Believer as a child and praise the Lion of Allah
(Hadrat Alî) with highly laudatory remarks.
5– In another page he attacks the Ahl as-sunnat as follows:
“After the Messenger of Allah, Alî is higher than the Anbiyâ-imursalîn
(prophets). The Imâm (Alî) is the wasi-i-Rasûl (the
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