Sunni Distortions in Kitāb al-Amwāl and the erasure of the raid on Sayeda Fatimah’s (sa) House. Ahl al-Sunnah have long worked tirelessly to construct a fairy tale in which there were no tensions between Abu Bakr and the Ahl al-Bayt following the death of the Prophet...
Deception in Translation: How an Urdu rendering conceals Qur’anic rebuke It is a foundational principle of Islamic scholarship that a narration must be assessed not only through its chain of transmission (isnād) and textual soundness (matn), but also through the...
Scholars are well aware that within the Ummah there exist certain individuals and groups who, in their claim of “love for the Companions,” have gone so far as to stand at the very door of “enmity toward the Household (Ahl al-Bayt).” Consequently, in the view of such...
Imam Ali’s Testimony and Sunni Self-Censorship: A Comparative Analysis of Kitab al-Sunnah and Ansāb al-Ashrāf The events immediately following the death of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ are recorded in multiple Sunni sources. Among these, Imam Ali’s (as) reflections on the...
Distortion of a Shia Narration by Ihsān Ilāhī Ẓahīr to Portray Cordial Relations Between Imam Ali (as) and the Shaykhayn” One striking aspect of Ihsān Ilāhī Ẓahīr’s intellectual dishonesty is his method of fragmenting or representing reports (tamthīl...
