Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Shiism in Sunnism

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Translator’s Preface
• Notes
• The Editor’s Introduction
• Notes
• An Introduction to: Recognition of the Imams in The Light of Traditions
• What are Imamate and Caliphate?
• The Continuation of Imamate and the Necessity of Recognition of Imam
• Imams are twelve in number and all from Quraysh
• Confession and Deviation
• The Ahl al-Bayt’s Claim to Imamate is Truthful
• Who are the Prophet’s Household?
• The Ahl al-Bayt’s Claim to Imamate
• Continuation of the Presence of Members from the Ahl al-Bayt (a.s)
• Imams Are From the Prophet’s Household (the Ahl al-Bayt)
• Shi’a Traditions are Proof for everyone
• Knowing the Names and Personalities of the Imams
• Imam Ali, Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn (a.s)
• Imam Ali Ibn Al-Husayn (a.s)
• Imam Muhammad Al-Baqir (a.s)
• Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq (a.s)
• Imam Musa Al-Kazim (a.s)
• Imam Ali Ibn Musa Al-Riza (a.s)
• Imam Muhammad Al-Taqi Al-Jawad (a.s)
• Imam Ali Al-Naqi Al-Hadi (a.s)
• Imam Hasan Al-Askari
• Imam Al-Mahdi
• Imam Mahdi’s Occultation
• Notes
• Ijtihad and Taqlid
• Lexical Meaning of Ijtihad
• Idiomatic Meanings of Ijtihad
• Ijtihad in its general meaning
• Ijtihad in its Special Meaning
• Sources of Ijtihad
• Examining the proof of the Holy Qur’an
• Examining the proof of the tradition
• The Ahl al-Bayt’s Tradition
• The first reason for proof of the Ahl al-Bayt’s tradition
• The second reason for the proof of the Ahl al-Bayt’s tradition
• The Proof of the Companion’s Sunnah
• The Proof of Consensus
• The Proof of wisdom (Common Sense)
• The Proof of Qiyas, Istihsan and Masalih Mursalah
• Qiyas (analogy)
• Istihsan (approbation)
• Masalih Mursalah
• Adducing Mu’adh’s tradition
• Sunan Ibn Majah, Kitab Al-Muqaddamah (introduction)
• The Abandonment or Allowance of Practicing Ijtihad
• The Dangers of Ignorant Prejudices
• Concluding Abandonment or Permission of Practicing Ijtihad
• Notes
• Wuzu (Statutory Ablution) in Allah’s Book and the Prophet’s Tradition
• The Quality of Washing the Hands
• The Quality of Rubbing the Head
• Rubbing or Washing the Feet?
• Pronunciation with jarr vowel (arjuli)
• Another instance of jarr due to an adjacent noun
• Pronunciation with the nasb vowel (arjula)
• Ablution in the Prophet’s Tradition
• The Ultimate Solution for the Problem of the Traditions of Washing (The Feet)
• Notes
• Tradition and Heresy in Adhan (Call to Prayer)
• Shi’a and the religious outset of Adhan
• The viewpoint of the Sunnis
• Examining the Tradition of Dream
• The Chapters of Adhan and Iqamah
• Hayya Ala Khayr al-Amal
• Discussion on Tathwib
• Scholars’ Views on the Origin of Tathwib
• Examining the Traditions of Tathwib
• The tradition of Nisa’i
• The traditions of Abu Dawud
• Testimony to Ali’s (a.s) wilayah in Adhan
• Notes
• Simultaneous Performance of Prayers
• Prayer Times According to the Holy Qur’an
• Examining the Honorable Verse
• Simultaneous Performance of Prayers according to Traditions
• Traditions in Sahih Muslim
• The traditions of Sahih Al-Bukhari
• The traditions of Musnad Ahmad
• The traditions of other Books
• Misinterpretations of the Traditions of the Simultaneous Performance of the Prayers
• A Summary of Jurisprudents’ Opinions
• The Hanafite’s Opinion
• The Shafiite’s Opinion
• The Malikite’s Opinion
• The Hanbalite’s Opinion
• Some narrators and Shafiites’ Opinion
• Ibn Shibramah’s Opinion
• Ibn Mundhir and Ibn Sirin’s Opinion
• Notes
• Prostration in the Tradition of the Prophet (a.s) and the Companions
• Lexical and Idiomatic Meaning of Prostration
• Traditions about Prostration
• Opinions of Some Companions and Scholars
• Notes