The Religion/Beliefs through which Allah accepts our deeds

بسم الله الواحد القهار

Sheikh Hadi An-Najafi:

Al-Kulayni from Al-Husain Ibn Mohammad from Mu’alla Ibn Mohammad from al-Washsha’ from Aban from Isma’il al-Ju’fi who has said the following:

“Once a man came to abu Ja’far(عليه السلام). He had a book with him. Abu Ja’far(عليه السلام) said, ‘This is the book of a polemicist who wants to learn a religion that if followed ones deeds are accepted.’ The man said, ‘May the blessings of Allah be with you, this is exactly what I want.’ Abu Ja’far(عليه السلام) said, ‘Such religion is to testify that no one deserves to be worshipped except Allah, Who has no partners. That Mohammad(صلی الله وعليه وآله) is His servant and Messenger. And that you affirm and acknowledge that whatever he has brought is from Allah. That one has love (in his heart) for us, Ahl al-Bayt, and disassociates himself from our enemies, obeys our commands, maintains piety and humbleness in life and has hope in the rise from us of one with the Divine Authority. For us there is a government and he will establish it when Allah wills.’” 

The chain of narrators of the hadith is Sahih(authenic).

Source: Mawsu'atu Ahadith Ahlalbayt, Vol. 12 Pg. 230

Did the Ahlulbayt(عليهم السلام) use insulting words?

بسم الله الواحد القهار

Sheikh Sayyed Mohammad Taqi Al-Musawi Al-Isfahani:

Among the traditions that indicate this is a tradition that Kulayni has mentioned in Usul Kafi through a highly authentic chain of narrators from Sadir As-Sairafi that he said: “I heard Abu Abdillah, (عليه السلام), say: ‘In the Master of this affair there is a likeness to Yusuf, (عليه السلام).’ “He said: “I said to him: ‘You must be referring to [al-Mahdi], but to his life or his occultation?’ 
“He said: “Then he said to me: ‘Which does this swine-like Ummah deny? The brothers of Yusuf, (عليه السلام), were descendants of prophets; they made a business of Yusuf, then they traded with him and spoke with him, and they were his brothers and he was their brother; but they did not know who he was until he said: “I am Yusuf and this is my brother.”[12:90] 
So why does this cursed Ummah deny that Allah, to whom belong Might and Majesty, can do with His Divine Proof at some time or other what he did with Yusuf? Yusuf, (عليه السلام), held sovereignty over Egypt and between him and his father there was an eighteen day journey; if he had wanted to let [his father] know he would have done so. But Yaqoob, (عليه السلام), and his sons, on [hearing] the good news, traveled the distance from their desert to Egypt in nine days. So how can this group deny that Allah, to Whom belong Might and Majesty, can do with his Divine Proof what he did with Yusuf? He will [come and] go in their markets and step on their rugs [i.e., enter their homes] until Allah to whom belong Might and Majesty, gives him leave in this matter; just as He gave Yusuf leave and they said: “Why, are you indeed Yusuf?” “I am Yusuf,” he said.[12:90]

Source: Mikyaal Al-Makaarim, Vol. 2 Pg. 424

Our Duty During Ghaybah

بسم الله الواحد القهار

Sheikh As-Saduq:

8 - Narrated to us Mohammad Ibn Al-Hasan Ibn Ahmad Ibn Al-Walid (رضي الله عنه): Narrated to us Mohammad Ibn Al-Hasan As-Saffaar: Narrated to us Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Isa and Mohammad Ibn Al-Husain Ibn Abil Khattab and Haitham Ibn Abi Masruq Al-Nahadi from Al-Hasan Ibn Mahboub As-Sarraad from Ali Ibn Rihaab from Abi Hamza Ath-Thumali from Abi Ja’far (عليه السلام) that he heard him say:

“The most proximate to Allah, the Mighty and Sublime and the most knowledgeable about Him and the most kind to the people are Mohammad (صلي الله و عليه وآله) and the Imams (عليهم السلام). So you enter where they enter and leave off whatever they leave. It denotes Al-Husain and his descendants as the truth is with them and they are the successors and the Imams are among them. So wherever you see them, follow them and if you did not see anyone of them one day, beseech the Almighty Allah and look into the Sunnah that you got and follow it. Love those whom you used to love(i.e. the Ahlulbayt عليهم السلام) and hate those whom you used to hate(i.e. their enemies), then very soon you will get deliverance(i.e. the reappearnace of the Imam عجل الله فرجه).”

Grading: Sahih(authentic)

Check the narrators in the Rijaal section:

1608: Mohammad Ibn Al-Hasan Ibn Ahmad Ibn Al-Walid

1621: Mohammad Ibn Al-Hasan As-Saffar

130: Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Isa Ibn Abdullah Al-Ash'ari Al-Qummi

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1624: Mohammad Ibn Al-Husain Ibn Abil Khattab

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2049: Haytham Ibn Abi Masruq An-Nahadi

516: Al-Hasan Ibn Mahboub As-Sarraad

1244: Ali Ibn Rahaab

312: Thabit Ibn Dinaar, Abu Hamza Ath-Thumali

Source: Kamaluddin, Pg. 307, H-No. 8

who are the Shia?

بسم الله الواحد القهار

Sheikh As-Saduq:

The Shia were created from the same clay of the Imams:

My father, Allah may have mercy upon him, narrated to us from Abdullah Ibn Ja’far from Ahmad Ibn Mohammad from Ibn Abi Najran that he heard Abu al-Hasan (Imam ar-Ridha) saying:
He who antagonizes our Shia is antagonizing us and whoever follows them is following us, because they are part of us. They were created from the same clay from which we were created. He who loves them is one of us, and whoever hates them is not with us. Our Shia see through the light of Allah, move about in the mercy of Allah, and will win the dignity of Allah. We feel the same pains that any of our Shia feels during ailment, we become grieved whenever any of our Shia becomes grieved, and we feel happy whenever any of our Shia feels happy. No one of our Shia can be out of our auspices, whether he was in the east or the west of the earth. The debt that is left by any of our Shia is in our responsibility while the estate is his heirs’. Our Shia are those who offer the prayers, defray the zakat, perform the hajj to the Holy House of Allah, fast during the month of Ramadan, declare their loyalty to the Prophet’s household, and declare their disavowal of the enemies of the Prophet’s household. 
Those are the people of faith, God-fearing, piety, and devoutness. He whoever rejects them is rejecting Allah, because they are the true servants and the genuine disciples of Allah. By Allah I swear, each individual of them will be granted (on the Day of Resurrection) the right to intercede for people as many as the individuals of the tribes of Rabeea and Madhar, out of Allah’s honor to them.

Grading: Sahih(authentic)

Check the narrators of this Hadith in the Rijaal section:

1231: Ali Ibn Al-Husain Ibn Musa Ibn Babawaih(father of Sheikh As-Saduq)
1050: Abdullah Ibn Ja'far Al-Himyari
130: Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Isa Ibn Abdullah Al-Ash'ari Al-Qummi
992: Abdur-Rahman Ibn Abi Najraan

Source: Sifaat Ash-Shia, Pg. H-No. 3

prayers behind he who does not practice Tabarri

بسم الله الواحد القهار

No doubt Tawalli which is friendship and submission to the guardianship of the Ahlulbayt(عليهم السلام) and Tabarri, which is enmity towards their enemies, are of the most important concepts in the school of Ahlulbayt(عليهم السلام). These two concepts need always to be practiced hand in hand and parallel, accepting just one of them and refraining from the other is not acceptable.

Of the jurisprudential verdicts which makes this clear is the impermissibly of performing prayers behind someone who manifests Tawalli, but refrains from doing Tabarri. In other words such a person lacks the Adaala, which is of the primary conditions for someone who leads the prayers in the School of Ahlulbayt(عليهم السلام).

The importance of this verdict shows itself when we look at the definition of Adaala, which is the state of someone who performs the obligatory acts and refrains from what has been prohibited, which means that Tawalli and Tabarri are of the primary obligatory acts for every Shia Muslim and he who refrains from practicing one of them is not considered an Aadil(i.e. upright) person.

Sheikh At-Tusi:

Sahih(authetnic): and also it has been narrated from him(i.e. Al-Husain Ibn Sa’eed) from Al-Nadhr from Yahya Al-Halabi from Ibn Muskan from Isma’eel Al-Ju’fi who said: I said to Abi Ja’far(عليه السلام): someone who loves Amiral-Muminin(عليه السلام)but does not disassociate  himself (i.e. do bara'a) from his enemies, and he says: He (i.e. Imam Ali (عليه السلام)) is more beloved to me than those who opposed him. Imam (عليه السلام) said: such a person is confused(i.e. has mixed his religion) and he is an enemy, so do not pray behind him and he should not be respected, unless you do Taqiyya from him.

Source: Tahdheeb Al-Ahkaam, Vol. 3 Pg. 32, H-No. 97-9       

Sheikh Al-Khwajawi:

And it is also clear that whoever who does not disassociate himself from the enemies of the Ahlulbayt(عليه السلام), he is their enemy himself. As it is obvious in the Sahih(authentic) narration of Isma’eel Al-Ju’fi who said: I said to Abi Ja’far(عليه السلام): someone who loves Amiral-Muminin(عليه السلام)but does not disassociate  himself (i.e. do bara'a) from his enemies, and he says: He (i.e. Imam Ali (عليه السلام)) is more beloved to me than those who opposed him. Imam (عليه السلام) said: such a person is confused(i.e. has mixed his religion) and he is an enemy, so do not pray behind him and he should not be respected, unless you do Taqiyya from him.

So he (عليه السلام) has declared the enmity towards those who do not disassociate themselves from their (عليهم السلام) enemies, even if Amiral-Muminin(عليه السلام) is more beloved to that person than those who opposed him and we do not define such people as Nasibi, except for those who antagonize the Ahlulbayt(عليه السلام) secretly or openly, we rather say: whoever antagonizes their friends, then he is a Nasibi.

Source: Ar-Rasahil Al-Fiq’hiyya, Vol. 2 Pg. 99

Sheikh Al-Khwajawi:

If someone declares the Wilaya but refrains from Bara’a, so he is confused and an enemy, as it is obvious in the Sahih(authentic) narration of Al-Ju’fi that was mentioned before, where he says:

I said to Abi Ja’far(عليه السلام): someone who loves Amiral-Muminin(عليه السلام)but does not disassociate  himself (i.e. do bara'a) from his enemies, and he says: He (i.e. Imam Ali (عليه السلام)) is more beloved to me than those who opposed him. Imam (عليه السلام) said: such a person is confused(i.e. has mixed his religion) and he is an enemy.

And it is obvious in some narrations that such a person is whoever who opposes the truth, even if he does not antagonize the people of the truth from among the Shia, and the Nasibi who antagonizes them, even if they do not manifest the enmity towards Ahlulbayt(عليه السلام). 

Source: Ar-Rasahil Al-Fiq’hiyya, Vol. 2 Pg. 102

Sheikh Al-Bahrani Al-Qatifi:

Prohibition of performing prayers behind someone who does Tawalli, but refrains from Tabarri:

Evidenced through what has been mentioned previously and what Sheikh(i.e. Sheikh Al-Tusi) has narrated through a Sahih(authentic) chain from Isma’eel Al-Ju’fi who said: I said to Abi Ja’far(عليه السلام): someone who loves Amiral-Muminin(عليه السلام)but does not disassociate (i.e. do bara'a) from his enemies, and he says: He (i.e. Imam Ali (عليه السلام)) is more beloved to me than those who opposed him. Imam (عليه السلام) said: such a person is confused(i.e. has mixed his religion) and he is an enemy, so do not pray behind him and he should not be respected, unless you do Taqiyya from him.

Apparently this narration refers to the Batriyya and they are the followers of Kathir An-Nawa and Al-Hasan Ibn Saleh Ibn Hai and Salim Ibn Abi Hafsa and Al-Hakam Ibn Utayba and Salama Ibn Kuhail and Thabit Al-Haddad and they are a group who invite to the Wilayat of Ali(عليه السلام) and then mix it with the Wilayat of Abi Bakr and Umar and accept them as Imams and leaders, but they show enmity towards Uthman, Talha, Al-Zubayr and Aisha, and they believe in revolting with the children of Ali(عليه السلام) and they believe that whoever from among them who rises and revolts is an Imam.

Source: Ar-Rasahil Al-Ahmadiyya, Vol. 1 Pg. 338

Ali's enemy is the enemy of Allah

بسم الله الواحد القهار

Sheikh Al-Mufid:

He said: Abu Ja'far Mohammad Ibn Ali Ibn al-Husain reported to me from his father, who reported from Mohammad Ibn Yahya Al-Attaar, who reported from Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Isa, from Ali Ibn Al-Hakam, from Hisham Ibn Salim, from Sulayman Ibn Khalid, from Abu Abdillah Ja'far Ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq(عليه السلام), from his forefathers(عليهم السلام), who said:
The Prophet(صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم), told Ali(عليه السلام):
"O Ali, you are from me and I from you. Your friend is my friend and my friend is Allah's friend. 
And your enemy is my enemy and my enemy is the enemy of Allah. 
O Ali, I am at war with the one who fights you and at peace with one who is at peace with you. 
O Ali, you have a treasure in the Heaven and you are the master of its both sides. 
O Ali, you are the divider of heaven and hell. 
None shall enter the heaven unless he has recognized you, and you have recognized him! 
And none shall enter hell unless he has rejected you and you have rejected him. 
O Ali, you and your descendants shall be on the heights (al-A'araaf) on the Day of Judgment, recognizing the sinners by their marks, and the believers by their signs. 
O Ali, the believers would not have been distinguished, after I have departed, if you were not there."

Source: Amali Al-Mufid, Assembly 24, H-No. 4, Pg. 213

Grading: Sahih(authentic), its narrators are trustworthy.

Check the Rijaal section for the authenticity of the Chain:

1727: Mohammad Ibn Ali Ibn Al-Husain Ibn Babawaih Al-Qummi
1231: Ali Ibn Al-Husain Ibn Musa Ibn Babawaih(father of Sheikh As-Saduq)
1819,1820: Mohammad Ibn Yahya Al-Attaar Al-Qummi
130: Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Isa Ibn Abdullah Al-Ash'ari Al-Qummi
1235: Ali Ibn Al-Hakam Al-Anbari, Al-Kufi, An-Nakha'ee
2040: Hisham Ibn Salim Al-Jawaliqi
842: Sulayman Ibn Khalid Al-Aqta'

All guidance belongs to Ahlulbayt(عليهم السلام)

بسم الله الواحد القهار

Sheikh Al-Mufid:

Abul Qasim Ja'far Ibn Mohammad reported to me from his father, from Sa'd Ibn Abdullah, from Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Isa, from al-Hasan Ibn Mahboub, from Abu Ayyoub al-Khazzaz, from Muhammad Ibn Muslim, who reported that:
Abu Ja'far Mohammad Ibn Ali(عليه السلام) said: "People (who have discarded us) have no truth, nor any propriety, except that which they have learnt from us Ahlulbayt. None from them can judge truly or with justice, unless he has taken its guidance from Amirul Mu'minin Ali Ibn Abi Talib(عليه السلام), the key, the gate, the path blazer, the way. And when they are confused in any matter, the fault is theirs if they commit an error; and if they decide rightly, the credit goes to Ali Ibn Abi Talib (عليه السلام)."

Source: Amali Sheikh Al-Mufid, Pg. 95-96

Grading: Sahih(authetnic), its narrators are trustworthy.

Check the Rijaal section for the authenticity of the Chain:

369: Ja'far Ibn Mohammad Ibn Ja'far Ibn Musa Ibn Qulawaih
1599: Mohammad Ibn Ja'far Ibn Musa Ibn Qulawaih
809: Sa'd Ibn Abdullah Ibn Abi Khalaf
130: Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Isa Ibn Abdullah Al-Ash'ari Al-Qummi
516: Al-Hasan Ibn Mahboub Al-Sarraad

35: Ibraheem Ibn Isa, Abu Ayyoub Al-Khazzaz

1782: Mohammad Ibn Muslim Ibn Rabah Ath-Thaqafi