Part 1 – Introducing the Hadith and Its Authenticity

The Master of the worlds, the Messenger of Allah (s), states: In Kitāb Faḍāʾil al-Ṣaḥāba (Hadith 947, p. 563): “حدثنا وكيع، قال: حدثنا الأعمش، عن سعد بن عبيدة، عن ابن بريدة، عن أبيه، قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم: **من كنت وليه فعلي وليه.”...

Part 2 Objections to narrators in the chains

Objections Concerning Abū Bilj Objection 1: They claimed that al-Bukhārī said about him: “fi-hi naẓar” (there is doubt in him). Response: Examination of al-Bukhārī’s own biographical entry on Abū Bilj demonstrates that he never recorded such a remark. In Al-Tārīkh...

Part 4 – Denials, Counters Contradictions

First attempt – The hadith is an illogical lie Ibn Taymiyya, in his attempt to refute the hadith «عليٌّ وليُّ كلِّ مؤمنٍ بعدي», begins by rejecting it outright as a fabrication. In Minhāj al-Sunnah fī al-Radd ʿalā al-Shīʿah, volume 7, page 391, he states: «وكذلك قوله...

PART 5 – CONCLUSION

Conclusion This book examined a single Prophetic declaration: إِنَّ عَلِيًّا مِنِّي وَأَنَا مِنْهُ وَهُوَ وَلِيُّ كُلِّ مُؤْمِنٍ مِنْ بَعْدِي “ʿAlī is from me and I am from him, and he is the walī of every believer after me.” The evidence presented establishes that...