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Misconceptions About Nahj Al-Balaghah 1 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Misconceptions About Nahj Al-Balaghah 1 2023-03-18 490 Views Imam Ali's Speeches , Shia Hadith Sources , Imam Ali' Letters , Misconceptions No scholar of the Sunni or Shi’a profession has questioned the genuineness and authenticity of Nahj al-Balagha for more than two centuries. The first person to raise doubts about its attribution to Amir al-Mu’minin was Ibn Khallikan (d.

681/1282), who, without referring to any author or source, made the following remarks about the authorship of Nahj al-balaghah: People have different opinions about the compiler of Nahj al- balaghah, a collection of the utterances of al-‘Imam ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib (as). There is a difference as to whether it was compiled by al-Sharif al-Murtadha or his brother al-Radhi.

It is also said that it is not at all the composition of ‘Ali (as) and that the one who compiled it and attributed it to him made it himself, but Allah knows the truth. These remarks were made in Wafayat al-Aya’n in connection with the account of the life and work of al-Sharif al-Murtadha, al-Radi’s elder brother. Ibn al-‘Athir al Jazari (555-630/1160-1232) in Mukhtasar al-Wafayat, Salah al-Din al-Safadi (d. 764/1362) in al-Wafi bi al-Wafayat , al-‘Allamah al-Yafi’i (d.

768/1366) in Mir’at al Jinan, and Ibn al-‘Imad in Shadharat al-Dhahab were content just to repeat Ibn Khallikan’s conjecture without bothering to substantiate it. Al-‘Allamah al-Dhahabi (d. 748/1347) in Mizan ul-‘I’tidal was the first person to pick up the audacity to raise the unfounded doubt to a degree of certainty a century after Ibn Khallikan.

He Wrote in His Account of Al-Murtadha Al-Sharif al-Murtadha, who is accused of fabricating Nahj al- balaghah, was a scholar of considerable knowledge. Whosoever sees his book Nahj al-balaghah would come to believe that it was falsely attributed to Amir al-Mu’minin (as) because it contains open abuse rather than a downgrading of the two caliphs Abu Bakr and ‘Umar.

Contradictions and mean matters have also crept into it, which do not conform with the spirit of the of the Quraysh and our knowledge of the later . One is convinced that the major part of this book is forged and unauthentic. Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (d. 748/1347) repeated al-Dhahabi’s objections without bothering to probe deeper into the matter.