I have not seen clear and recurrent traditions more than the...

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 Ummah 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 (as) clearly since the (day of the warning)[^3] in Abu Talib’s 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 Ali’s 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) .

They (the companions) had appropriated the matter (the caliphate) to themselves on the day of Saqeefa[^4] 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[^5] or 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,[^6] the protection of the Ummah from separation,[^7] the ship of rescue for the Ummah from deviation[^8] and the gate of repentance for the Ummah.[^9] It was as if they had forgotten that the Prophet’s family was to the Ummah as the head to the body and as the two eyes to the head.[^10] In fact they were as they had been meant by the saying of the poet: The matter is determined when Taym [^11] is absent And they [^12] are not asked permission when they are present.

Yes! The matter had been determined in the Saqeefa[^13] while the Prophet (S) was lying between his family and his close companions for three days.