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Nevertheless, all these have not sufficed you until you raised your cousin from the arm and preceded him to us saying, ‘`Ali will now be the master of him whosever master was me.’ Is this your own directive or is it due to Allah’s?” The Holy Prophet (S) answered, “By Allah there is no god but Whom I take the oath, it is surely Almighty Allah’s directive.” Jabir turned his face towards his riding animal saying, “O Allah!

If Muhammad’s words are true, then rain us with a heavenly stone or inflict a painful chastisement upon us.” Before Jabir could reach his animal, the Lord rained him with a stone that fell on the head and went out from the anus.

Hence, he was killed and, consequently, Allah revealed, “One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall.” [Surah al-Maarij 70:1] Despite the fact that a good number of Sunni reference books of Tafsir and Hadith have adopted the same exegeses of the three Verses revealed for the event of Ghadir Khumm, others have adopted other opinions most of which are contradictory. The following discussions are introduced as preliminary introductions to the exegesis of the three Verses of Ghadir.