\u00a0\u00a0The twelve successors of Rasool Allah -saww are...

\u00a0\u00a0The twelve successors of Rasool Allah -saww are also quoted by very many Shias as well as Sunnis Ahadith compilers. \n The three \u2018Waqafites\u2019 articles, however, (see Appendix II) have searched for those Ahadith and Verses where they can find specific words such as \u2018seven\u2019 or sometimes \u2018eight\u2019 without looking at the context of the Ahadith in the light of the Quran and other Ahadith.

\n In addition, without taking into considerations that some of the Ahadith were issued to a specific person under the conditions of Taqeeya or were abrogated.\u00a0 To embrace a belief (Eman), one must analyse fundamental Ahadith as sound \u2018Eman\u2019 is the key to Paradise and the acts of worships are only beneficial when one\u2019s Eman is pure without deviations from the True Path.

\n One must also try to understand the conditions under which a Hadith is narrated, the status (knowledge) of the one asking an Imam -asws and its context.

For example, there are Ahadith which introduce \u2018Ghayba\u2019 as being an occultation (a single Ghayba) – as a general introduction of \u2018Ghayba\u2019 but one would also find Ahadith which are more specific and reveal that there will be two occultations (two Ghayba) one after another\u2013 see Appendix III.\u00a0 We first take some examples of the difficulites in \u2018understanding\u2019 Ahadith and the care one must exercise prior to developing religious concepts: \n Which Hadith to Take?