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They object in the following manner: Firstly, from the beginning of Islamic Caliphate to the present age, more than a thousand years have passed. Many important and authentic scholars have graced these centuries and all of them have examined the matt...

They object in the following manner: Firstly, from...

Thirdly: If they say: He had rejected and refuted the Book of Aqaid. In reply I say: The actual Islamic beliefs have been explained and expounded by the Holy Prophet (s.a.) and no one can deny and refute them because they were brought to us from the ...

Thirdly: If they say: He had rejected and refuted ...

Mamoon asked, "In the event of the Almighty and the Prophet knowing the most superior person of Ummah would they give him preference or not?" Ishaq said, "They preferred the most superior one." Mamoon said, "In this way Ali (a.s.) was the most superi...

Mamoon asked, "In the event of the Almighty and th...

This tradition has been recorded by Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal from Zaid bin Awfa, the writer of Mishkat from Ibne Umar, by Tirmidhi from Ibn Abi Awfa, Abdullah bin Ahmad Hanbal from Saeed bin Jubair, Ahmad from Abu Huzaifah Yamani, Nawfal from Jabir bin ...

This tradition has been recorded by Imam Ahmad bin...

The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said, "O Allah! Send me the one who loves You and loves me most from Your creatures so that he may share with me this (roasted) bird." Then Ali (a.s.) came and shared the meal with him. This hadith is recorded in all...

The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said, "O Allah! ...

The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said: "O Ali! You hold the same position with me as Haroon had with Moosa, except that there is no prophet after me." This hadith is also famous among the writings of Muslim scholars. Most of the narrators have recor...

The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said: "O Ali! Yo...

The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said, "Of whomsoever I am the Master; this Ali is his Master too. O Allah! Love those who love him and be an enemy to those who are inimical to him." There is unanimity of the whole community of the Shia and Sunni sc...

The Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.) said, "Of whomso...

Abu Hurayrah was a companion of the holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.), who embraced Islam in the year of the battle of Khaibar. Being unemployed all the time, he always accompanied the holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.). Also, as he was aware of the real attitude of Abu ...

Abu Hurayrah was a companion of the holy Prophet (...

As the Lord Almighty created man, He also guided them to the right path through a guide from among themselves. All of these divine guides in their respective periods were the bearers of authority and dispensers of divine law among the people. Among t...

As the Lord Almighty created man, He also guided t...

The summary of the story of Adam (PUH) is that God told His Angels that He will make a human from mud (or clay) and He ordered them to prostrate before him whenever He breathe in him from His Spirit after his creation and they did obey the commandmen...

The summary of the story of Adam (PUH) is that God...

The marriage of the children of Adam (PUH) from each other was a matter of a lot of controversy. Some people said that their marriage first was in the manner of a brother with a sister marriage since Eve used to have a male and a female at every preg...

The marriage of the children of Adam (PUH) from ea...

What was mentioned about the marriage of Adam and Eve from the Household members (PUT) is that when God created Adam (PUH) from sand and breathed in him from His Spirit and Made the Angels prostrate before him, he got asleep, and while he was sleepin...

What was mentioned about the marriage of Adam and ...

From Abi Jafar Al-Baqir (PUH) from his fathers (PUT): God sent to Gabriel (PUH) that I had mercy upon Adam and Eve so get them a tent from the tents of paradise and make it stand in the place of the House and its base that was lifted before by the An...

From Abi Jafar Al-Baqir (PUH) from his fathers (PU...

It was told that Adam (PUH) cried for paradise until it was like great rivers on his cheeks because of tears, and he stood at the door of Kaba and his clothes were of the skins of cows and camels and said: O Lord help me with my mistake and Make repe...

It was told that Adam (PUH) cried for paradise unt...

What is famous from the Household (PUT) that Adam (PUH) fell down on Al-Safa and Eve on Al-Marwah [Al-Safa and Al-Marwah are two hills in Mecca and people go in between them seven times in pilgrimage season], and what is famous for the most of Muslim...

What is famous from the Household (PUT) that Adam ...

Tales and speeches had differed about of what type is it and what is it. Some said it is wheat and some said it is vine and grape while others said it is camphor and still others said it is the fig. It is said also that it is the tree of good and evi...

Tales and speeches had differed about of what type...

From Mos'adah ben Sadaqah from Al-Sadiq (PUH) from the prophet (PUH) that Moses the son of Amram [Arabic: Musa ben Imran] (PUH) asked his Lord to let him see Adam (PUH) and so He answered him and made him see Adam, and then Moses did say: O Father! y...

From Mos'adah ben Sadaqah from Al-Sadiq (PUH) from...

From Musa ben Jafar (PUH), that a jew came and asked the Prince of Believers (PUH) about a miracle for the prophet (PUH) like the miracles of other prophets, and that God made Angels prostrate before Adam so would that be also for Muhammad (PUH)? so ...

From Musa ben Jafar (PUH), that a jew came and ask...

The Prince of Believers (PUH) said in Al-Nahj: Then God made Adam inhabit a place of much grace and made it a safe place for him, and warned him of Iblis and his hostility, and so his foe envied him (Adam) for his place of inhabitation and his compan...

The Prince of Believers (PUH) said in Al-Nahj: The...

About what was been told in the Holy phrases of the saying of the damned which is "Now, because Thou hast sent me astray, verily I shall lurk in ambush for them on Thy Right Path...etc", it is apparent that the damned thought God made him astray and ...

About what was been told in the Holy phrases of th...

Said God let praise be to Him: And when We said unto the angels: Prostrate yourselves before Adam, they fell prostrate, all save Iblis. He demurred through pride, and so became a disbeliever (Al-Baqarah: 34). And in another position He said to Iblis ...

Said God let praise be to Him: And when We said un...