Tag: polemics

The Impeachment of al-Zuhrī and Wāʾil ibn Ḥujr Their Attacks on al-Ḥākim, and the Discussion Concerning al-Nasāʾī On Muʿāwiya and the Banū Umayya On the True Meaning of Companionship Shaykh al-Ṣadūq acknowledges that the large number and growth of the Imāmiyya were due to the Abbasid state Why did Imam al-Ṣādiq not take up the sword and rise alongside his uncle Imam Zayd? And why did the rest of his sons not take up the sword? Do the Zaydīs believe in the Imamate of Mūsā al-Kāẓim? And how do you affirm the Imamate of ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā when he neither proclaimed nor rose up? Imam Zayd ibn ʿAlī: Did he believe in the Mahdi according to the Imami doctrine? Why do the Zaydis call Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq “Imam” ? You deny occultation, yet the Companions of the Cave disappeared from their people, as did Jesus and al-Khidr?