Hajj, Manifestation of Unity

References

[^1]: al-Kafi, vol. 4, p. 272, Wasa’il, vol. 8, p. 14

[^2]: Nahj al-Balaghah, sermon 192, p. 293

[^3]: Wasa’il al-Shi’ah, vol. 11, p. 118

[^4]: al-Kafi, vol. 2, p. 19

[^5]: Wasa’il, vol. 11, p. 33

[^6]: It is also important to note that the ultimate teacher of the founders of the four schools of jurisprudence in the Sunni world was his grandson, Imam al-Sadiq (‘a). In fact, many of the Imam’s thousands of students were from different schools of thought in the Islamic world.

[^7]: Ibn Qutaybah, al-Imamah wa al-Siyasah, Vol. I, p. 68; al-Hamawini, Fara'id al-simtayn, Chapter 37. al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, Vol. IV, p. 21; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Fusul al-Muhimmah

[^8]: This line of the truth is represented by the ‘ulama and the muhaddithūn.

[^9]: This form excludes, on principle, any and all forms of “unity” - whether racial, tribal, national, linguistic, historical, … - in which religion is not given priority and supreme authority.

[^10]: Mustadrak al-Wasa’il, vol. 17, p. 269

[^11]: al-Kafi, vol. 1, p. 45

[^12]: Mustadrak al-Wasa’il, vol. 8, p. 326

[^13]: Mizan al-Hikmah, tradition no. 2434

[^14]: Awaye Wahdat, Papers Presented in the Seventh International Conference of IslamicUnity, July, 1995

[^15]: Sahifeh e Imam, vol. 6, p. 133