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The Muslim scholars disagreed on this matter.[^1] Malik and al-Awza’iy thought that it was not a part of the Quran and they prohibited their followers from reciting it in the prayers whether it was in the beginning of sura of Hamd[^2] or in the beginning of the second sura and whether it was recited loudly or softly but they permitted to be recited in nafila.[^3] Abu Haneefa, ath-Thawri and their followers recited bassmala with sura of Hamd but they said that it must be recited softly even in the loud-recited prayers.[^4] This showed that they agreed with Malik and al-Awza’iy.

We didn’t find any evidence justifying that except that they didn’t consider it as part of the Quran. Ash-Shafi’iy recited bassmala loudly in loud-recited prayers and softly in soft-recited prayers and considered it as a verse of sura of Hamd. So was the thought of Ahmed bin Hanbal, Abu Thour and Abu Obayd.

Different sayings were mentioned about the thought of ash-Shafi’iy concerning bassmala; whether he believed that it was a part of every sura except Bara’a[^5] (9) or it was not a verse except in sura of Hamd.

But his companions agreed upon that bassmala was a verse of all the suras[^6] and justified the two different sayings mentioned about their Imam’s thought.[^7] As for us-the Shia-we agreed, according to our infallible imams, upon that bassmala was a complete Quranic verse of every sura except Bara’a and whoever left reciting it in the prayer intendedly, his prayer would be vain whether the prayer was wajib (obligatory) or mustahab.

It must be recited loudly in loud-recited prayers and it was desirable (mustahab) to be recited loudly in soft-recited prayers.[^8]It was a piece of a verse in sura of an-Naml. The traditions of our infallible imams were clear in denying the sayings of their opponents. Imam Sadiq (s) said: “What?!

They attacked the greatest verse of the Book of Allah the Almighty and they pretended that it was a heresy and then they spread their heresy about the verse ( In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful ) . [^9] Our evidence from the Sunni side is the traditions mentioned in their Sihah and how many they are!