Ithna `Asharites generally restrict it to prophets and Imams, BHA, nos.

Ithna `Asharites generally restrict it to prophets and Imams, BHA, nos. 234, 235. [^5]: These were big tribes and are selected to indicate the large number of persons on whose behalf effective intercession will take place by the instrumentality of a single individual. [^6]: In the Sunnite tradition, 70,000, Wensinck, Handbook, 112. [^7]: In the Wasiyat Abi Hanifa, art. 25, even mortal sins may be forgiven, MC, 130, 182, 268. Previous…