(7) “Tabarani” quotes another narrative in this regard...

(9) And at the end, in some resources this narrative is written without these suffixes “caliph, leader, men and guardian”, this narrative has been quoted by “Abu Awanah”: … عن جابر بن سمرة السوائي قال جئت مع أبي إلي المسجد ورسول الله صلي الله عليه وسلم يخطب فسمعته يقول: من بعدي اثنا عشر ثم خفض صوته فلم أدر ما يقول، قلت: لأبي ما يقول؟ قال: كلهم من قريش “Abu Awanah” says at the end: وهذا مما انتخبه أبو زكريا الأعرج وهو حديث حسن حسن “Abu Zakariya A’araj” has selected this narrative which is an authentic narrative.

(10) According to these narratives written in Sunni best narrative books, we realize that this narrative with its different phrases is an acceptable narrative with them and all of them restate that after messenger of Allah, these twelve persons are successor, guardian and leader of people. The meaning of “Twelve caliphs” in this narrative: One of important issues in this narrative is the meaning of “Twelve caliphs” that Shia and Sunni have said different views about it.

Since Shias believe that the meaning of this narrative is “” twelve imams, they don’t have problem in its interpretation, but Sunni elders and scholars have presented different opinions and in fact, they faced perplexity and some of them have said frankly that they can’t determine what Messenger of Allah [PBUHH] means by saying this narrative.