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in the Dīn according to them. The impermissibility of opposing the Ahl al-Bayt is
a categorically established aspect of Islam which is well-known to the elite and
the commonality. 1
Lastly, the social conduct of the Imāms with those who opposed them. It is not
reported from any of them that he would intentionally try to avoid meeting them.
Rather they would socialise with them, inter-marry, and would eat from the food
they slaughtered without any reservation. Whereas if every dissenter was a Nāṣib
they would never have interacted with them in this way due to a Nāṣibī being a
disbeliever according to their unanimity. 2
Al-Jawāhirī 3 says:
لعل الذي يظهر من السير والتواريخ أن كثيرا من الصحابة في زمن النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وبعده
وأصحاب الجمل وصفين،‏ بل وكافة أهل الشام وأكثر أهل المدينة ومكة كانوا في أشد العداوة لمير
المؤمنين وذريته عليهم السالم،‏ مع أن مخالطتهم ومساورتهم لم تكن منكرة عند الشيعة أصال ولو سرا.‏
وكذلك الحال في بني أمية وأتباعهم وبني العباس وأتباعهم.‏
Probably what is apparent from history is that many of the Ṣaḥābah M
during the time of Nabī H, the participants of Jamal and Ṣiffīn, actually
all the people of Shām, and all the people of Makkah and Madīnah severely
opposed Amīr al-Muʾminīn and his children Q. Despite that, socialising
with them (at times) and opposing them (at times) was not something
frowned upon by the Shīʿah at all, not even discreetly. The same was the
situation with the Banū Umayyah and their followers and the Banū ʿAbbās
and their followers. 4
1 Baḥr al-ʿUlūm: Bulghah al-Faqīh 4/207.
2 Ibid; al-Khumaynī: Kitāb al-Ṭahārah 3/336.
3 Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Bāqir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Najafī. A prominent scholar of the Imāmī
jurists. He was born in Najf in approximately 1202 A.H. By the mid thirteenth century he became the
supreme most authority of the Imāmiyyah and was thus the only reference scholar who was followed
unquestionably. He passed away in Najf in 1266 A.H. Some of his books are: Jawāhir al-Kalām, Najāh
al-ʿIbād and Hidāyah al-Sālikīn. See: al-Māzindarānī, al-ʿAqd al-Munīr p. 297; Aʿyān al-Shīʿah 9/149; Muʿjam
al-Muʾallifīn 9/184.
4 Jawāhir al-Kalām 6/66. Also see: Natāʾij al-Afkār 1/244; Mustanad al-Shīʿah 1/208; Kitāb al-Ṭahārah 2/351.
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