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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al-Nass Wal-Ijtihad, Text and Interpretation Chapter 7: The slips of the public (the Sunni) Trusting in everyone who has accompanied the Prophet (S) The Sunnis have trusted in every Muslim who has accompanied the Prophet (S) even for one time as if companionship with the Prophet (S), according to their opinions, has made the companions infallible; therefore they have trusted in all what the companions have narrated (as they have claimed) from the Prophet (S) concerning the laws and the verdicts of the Shari’ah .

They have relied on that and acted according to it without researching whether the companions, who have narrated the traditions, were fair, reliable, truthful and faithful or not. This is not possible at all because companionship itself, even if it is considered as a virtue, cannot be as evidence of infallibility.

The companions of the Prophet (S) were like the rest of people; among them there were fair, virtuous, faithful and loyal believers, who were a lot, and also there were among them disobedient and hypocrite people besides that there were some companions whose real states were unknown.

The legal evidences have required that a narrator of a single tradition must be fair and trustworthy even if he was one of the Prophet’s companions but as for the unfair and untrustworthy narrator, his traditions would be of no value at all according to definite evidences.

As for the unknown companions, they would be proved to be fair and then it could be relied on their tradition concerning the branches of Islam and not the main principles but if they were proved to be unfair, it would be not possible to act according to their traditions. This is what we know of the opinion of the Sunnis concerning the traditions narrated by a single narrator. There is no disagreement between us and them about this matter.

But they have insisted on relying on the traditions narrated by the companions without researching or pondering on the fairness and truthfulness of the narrators believing that the companions all in all were fair and trustworthy as if they wanted to sanctify the Prophet (S) by considering all his companions as fair and faithful. This is a great mistake and ignorance that we deem them to be far above.

Sanctifying the Prophet (S) is by sanctifying his Sunna and keeping it safe from the distortion of the fabricators.