Dedication

Acknowledgments

Preface

1) Hadith Al-Khilafah

2) Hadith Al-Wilayah, Investigating Its Authenticity

3) Hadith Al-Wilayah, Al-Arnaut’s Rescue Attempts

4) Hadith Al-Wilayah, What Does Wali Mean?

5) Hadith Al-Wilayah, The Implication of “After Me”

6) Hadith Al-Wilayah, Doctored By Shi’is?

7) Hadith Al-Tawliyah

8) Hadith Al-Wirathah, Establishing Its Authenticity

9) Hadith Al-Wirathah, Examining Some Shawahid

10) Hadith Al-Ada, Investigating Its Authenticity

11) Hadith Al-Ada, the Report of Zayd B. Yathi’

12) Hadith Al-Ada, Revealing Ibn Taymiyyah’s Fears

13) Hadith Al-Qital, Ibn Taymiyyah Charges Imam ‘Ali With Mass Murder

14) Hadith Al-Qital, the Prophet’s Defence of Amir Al-Muminin

15) Hadith Al-Qital, Mu’awiyah B. Abi Sufyan: A Case Study

16) Hadith Al-Siyadah, Examining The Background Arguments

17) Hadith Al-Siyadah, Proving Its Authenticity

18) Hadith Al-Siyadah, Exploring the Scope of ‘Ali’s Superiority

19) Hadith Sadd Al-Abwab, A Tale of Two Hadiths

20) Hadith Sadd Al-Abwab, What Doors Exactly Were Closed?

21) Hadith Al-Manzilah, the Golden Hadith

22) Hadith Al-Manzilah, ‘Ali: The Wazir of Muhammad

Bibliography

This text provides evidence for the Caliphate of Imam Ali (AS) over Abu
Bakr using differents Traditions such as Hadith Al-Wilayah,Hadith
Al-Tawliyah, and Hadith Al-Wirathah.


On The Khilafah Of ‘Ali Over Abu Bakr

Acknowledgments
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Special thanks to Tural Islam, Aneela Sultan, Ali Baker, Syeda Umme
Rabab Bukhari, Ahmad Olawuyi, and the following brothers and sisters,
for their encouragement: Shaykh Muhammad Nura Dass, Steve Davies, Jaffer
Abbas, Jibreel Ibn Mikael, Jafar Mer, Muhammad Ali Khalil, Hassan
Bokhari, Syed Jarry Haider, Omidiji Nurudeen, Kassim Agbonika Salihu,
Aquib Mehdi Rizvi, Syed Ali Raza, Sajjad Abu Ja’far Baktash, Akram
Abbas, Ali Hussnain, Nader Carun, Henna Rai, Rizziandrie Zairul, Kashif
Bukhari, Syed Mansab Ali Jafri, Nasir Hasan, and Hussain Ali Nasser. May
Allah bless them all and all our loving brothers and sisters from the
Shi’ah Imamiyyah and the Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama’ah.


