وَأَنِ احْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ
“And that you should judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not follow their low desires.”1
Here some senior scholars have admitted to the wide narration (Tawatur) of the tradition and have condemned its deniers and previously you saw that there are 110 companions of Prophet, who narrated this tradition, whose statements we were able to access. There is no tradition from the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), which has come with such wide narration (Tawatur), certainty and proof.
Shamsuddin Jazari, especially in proving the wide narration (Tawatur) of this report, has written a separate treatise and regarded as ignorant those, who deny this tradition and the truth is this only.
Faqih Ziyauddin Muqbili also says:
“If this tradition, with all these sources, is not known, nothing else would be known in religion.”2
Badakhshi says: “This tradition is authentic and famous and except for a prejudiced person and a denier, whose statement cannot be relied upon, no one will argue about its authenticity.”3
However, there exist people, who harbor malice and enmity, to whom separation from our master, Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) has impelled them that through every means, they should make this clear spring putrid and shake the foundations of this confidence.
That is why, one of them has become a denier of the tradition4 with the excuse that at that time Ali (a.s.) was not present with the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.), and that he was in Yemen.
Another one has denied the authenticity of the central theme of the tradition and he says:5
“Most reporters have not narrated the main theme of the tradition.”
The third one states that the appendix to the tradition is weak6 , he says:
“Without any doubt, the appendix to the tradition is false.”
The fourth one,1
has expressed doubt in its origin, but regards the
supplication after it to be reliable and says:
“Only Ahmad bin Hanbal has narrated it and as for others, they have only
narrated this last part of: O Allah, love those, who love him…from the statement
of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w.a.).”