One of the most common defenses that our opponents use with regards to the dispute between Fatima (AS) and Abu Bakr is that before Fatima’s death, she and Abu Bakr met and amicably ended their dispute, and she was pleased with him before she died. This narrative is one which we have examined and have found to be quite absurd. We shall present a comprehensive refutation for it in the hopes that our Shia brothers and sisters benefit and know how to respond in case they come ac

Ahmad b. Hanbal is a major and prominent scholars from Ahlus Sunnah. He is arguably one of their most important narrators with a major contribution to the hadith corpus completed with his Musnad. In this article, we will demonstrate clear censorship and tampering of Hadiths committed by Ahmad b. Hanbal because of his bias beliefs, placing a clear doubt on his credibility and reliability for as a Hadith author. Below we have mentioned 9 cases of clear tampering by Ahmad.

Oftentimes when the narrations of Imam Ali’s merits are quoted, other schools in Islam will often cite the words of scholars who would weaken the narrations in terms of their matn (content) or sanad (chain of transmission). One of the most infamous examples of this is al-Dhahabi, who weakened many of the merits of Ali transmitted by al-Hakim al-Neyshaburi in his Mustadrak. How reliable are the gradings of al-Dhahabi?

Sufyan b. Sa’eed b. Masruq al-Thawri was a famous Tabi’i jurist of the 2nd century. He narrates many hadiths, tafsir and had his own...

The study of narrators (ilm al-Rijal) is a very important science when it comes to the preservation of Islamic shari'ah...

Our opponents from Ahlus Sunnah are always criticising other groups of Muslims for their opinions on certain companions. They claim to...