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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Wahhabis Fitna Exposed Infallibility of the Imams The writer of “What is Shi’aism?” has given four “proofs” to show that the Shi’as are kafir. The fourth proof according to him is as follows: “The Shi’as believe that their Imams are infallible and sinless.

These attributes and qualities are reserved only for the Prophets and the Messenger of Allah.” COMMENT : This unknown writer in unaware that his co-religionists, i.e., the Wahhabis, do not believe in the ‘ismah (infallibility and sinlessness) of even the Prophets. I do not want to quote narratives of Sahih al-Bukhari which present the Holy Prophet of Islam (S) in extremely bad light.

Although a Persian proverb says that “Quoting a kufr is not kufr”, but my iman does not allow me even to quote those blasphemous ahadith which are the hall-mark of al-Bukhari, and which have given ammunitions in the hands of the Christians and Jews for attacking Islam and its Holy Prophet (S) using this so called Sahih of al-Bukhari.

Apart from that, the Wahhabis openly believe that the Holy Prophet (S) was no more than a big brother to the Muslims; and that he was giving orders based on his Ijtihad. In other words he was just a Mujtahid. And everyone knows that a Mujtahid sometimes arrives at correct decision while at other times he may make mistakes. With such beliefs, how can he claim that the Prophets, especially the Holy Prophet, was ma’sum (sinless and infallible)?

Obviously this unknown author, if not ignorant of his own religion, has committed the sin of Taqiyyah by hiding his actual belief!

Sunni Belief About The Prophets’ Ismat As for the Sunnis’ belief, I quote here from two authoritative books on this subject: The famous ‘Allamah at-Taftazani (Sa’du ‘d-Deen Ma’ud ibn ‘Umar al­Ash’ari ash-Shafi’i) writes in his Sharu ‘l Maqasid: “Our madhhab is that (the Prophets) do not commit any major sin (al-kaba’ir) after bi’that (getting nabuwwat) under any circumstances (i.e. neither intentionally nor unintentionally), and (do not do) any small sin intentionally.

They can commit small sins unintentionally, but they do not persist nor continue in it; rather they are cautioned and they become cautious.”[^1] In other words, the Prophets could commit major sins before bi’that.