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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Fabricated Traditions: a Critical Assessment of Traditions On Classification of Caliphs and Their Excellences Author’s Preface In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds and may prayer and peace be upon our master and Prophet, Muhammad, and his pure progeny, and may Allah’s curse be upon all their enemies from the first to the last one.

In one of my studies, commenting on a tradition, I mentioned that all traditions that are about caliphs, relating their names in order are no doubt fabricated and forged. Some thoughtful readers asked me to prove it through studying various chains of this kind of traditions available in sihah sitta or other credible works. It was because of this that I began to write the book in your hand.

While carrying out the research, I found out that not only the traditions in the section related to the virtues of caliphs but all such traditions found in any sections are fabricated and fake even the traditions that contain such phrases: the Holy Prophet (s) said: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and I came …. Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and I went out … Where are Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman?.... Some of these traditions contain the name of Ali (a.s) as well, placing it sometimes before the name of Uthman.

The names of Abu Bkr and Umar however always precede the name of Imam Ali (a.s) in these traditions. More interestingly I found a tradition in which the liars narrate such things from Imam Ali (a.s), commander of the faithful, to show that he himself accepted the virtues of caliphs and thus no one could reject it! As an instance look at the tradition narrated by Bukhari and Muslim via two channels.

Bukhari says: Walid bin Salih narrated from Isa bin Yunus from Umar bin Sa'eed bin Abi al-Husain Makki from Ibn Abi Malika from Ibn Abbas …. Whereas Muslim says: Sa'eed bin Amr Ash'athi, Abu al-Rabi'a Atki and Abu Karib Muhammad bin Alla (this phrase belongs to Abu Karib)[^1] narrated from Ibn Mubarak from Amr bin Sa'eed bin Abi Husain, from Ibn Malika from Ibn Abbas When Umar bin Khattab's corpse was placed in coffin, people gathered around it.

Before the coffin was moved, people were praying for Umar and telling his virtues. I was also there among them. All of a sudden a man grabbed my shoulder from behind. I turned back and saw that it was Ali (a.s).