The Lord of Mighty Power has taught him).

The Lord of Mighty Power has taught him). I have not seen clear and recurrent traditions more than the traditions talking about the caliphate but they have been confiscated by the most of the umma while the wound has not recovered yet and the Prophet (s) has not been buried yet.

The life of the Prophet (s) after his prophethood was full of traditions that had talked about the caliphate of Imam Ali (s) clearly since the (day of the warning)[2] in Abu Talibs house and throughout the days after that until he had lain in the bed of death whereas his room was crowded with people when he said: O people, I am about to die and to be taken hastily. I have informed you. I have left among you the Book of Allah and my progeny. Then he raised Alis hand and said: This is Ali.

He is with the Qur'an and the Qur'an is with him. They will never separate until they will come to me at the pond (in Paradise). The traditions of thaqalayn (two weighty things) are enough to be the judge between the two sects; the Shia and the Sunni. Most surely there is a reminder in this for him who has a heart or he gives ear with full intelligence. Qur'an, 50:37 [1] The deliberations (murajaat) were one hundred and twelve ones.

[2] The Prophet (s) had invited his close relatives to warn them. The last of his speech to them was that when he held Alis hand and said: This is my brother, my vizier, my guardian and my caliph among you. Listen to him and obey him! Refer to murajaa no. 20 and the one after it in the book al-Murajaat.

They (the companions) had appropriate the matter (the caliphate) to themselves on the day of Saqeefa[1] interpreting some prophetic traditions according to their own opinions without caring for anything else. They had determined their matter among them without informing anyone of the Hashemites[2] nor any of their followers; the Hashemites, who were the family of the Prophet (s), the place of the divine mission, the descendance of the angels and the descendance of Gabriel and revelation.

As if they had forgotten that the Hashemites were the weighty thing the Prophet (s) had left, the equal of the Book of Allah,[3] the protection of the umma from separation,[4] the ship of rescue for the umma from deviation[5] and the gate of repentance for the umma.[6] As if they had forgotten that the Prophets family was to the umma as the head to the body and as the two eyes to the head.[7] In fact they were as they had been meant by the saying of the poet: [1] Saqeefa means a shed.