1. The Companions are the lamps of guidance; Allah chose them for the companionship of His Prophet ﷺ, was pleased with them, and made disbelief, sin, and disobedience hateful to them.
2. The noble Companions had a distinction that no one, no matter how high they reach in knowledge and deeds, can ever attain: namely, seeing and living with the Beloved Muhammad ﷺ.
3. Loving the Companions is faith, and hating them is disbelief and hypocrisy. We mention them only with goodness, in compliance with the advice of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ:
“Fear Allah regarding my Companions; do not take them as a target after me…”
4. Anyone who accompanied or saw the Prophet ﷺ while believing in him, even if he accompanied him for a year, a month, a day, or an hour, is a Companion.
5. Ahl al-Sunnah love the Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, refrain from delving into what occurred among them, and entrust their matter to Allah: whoever among them was correct will have two rewards, and whoever erred will have one reward, and his error will be forgiven, if Allah wills.
6. The Prophet ﷺ said regarding the Companions: “Whoever loves them, loves them because of my love; whoever hates them, hates them because of my hatred. Whoever harms them has harmed me, and whoever harms me has harmed Allah; and whoever harms Allah, it is soon that He will seize him.”
7. The best of this Ummah after its Prophet is Abu Bakr, then ‘Umar, then ‘Uthman, then ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with them all, and the Prophet ﷺ bore witness for them and gave them glad tidings of Paradise.
8. We love the Ahl al-Bayt (Household of the Prophet ﷺ) and show loyalty to them, based on his ﷺ saying: “I remind you by Allah regarding my Ahl al-Bayt, I remind you by Allah regarding my Ahl al-Bayt.”
9. Abu Bakr al-Siddiq said to ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib—may Allah be pleased with them both—as in Sahih al-Bukhari: “By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, the kinship of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is dearer to me than my own kinship.”
10. Faith is not complete until one loves the Ahl al-Bayt of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ for the sake of Allah:
First, because they are his allies and people of obedience, whose love and loyalty are obligatory for His sake;
Second, because of their status with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and their direct lineage to him. - Ibn Taymiyyah.
11. Ahl al-Sunnah are the ones who narrate the hadiths about the merits and virtues of Ahl al-Bayt, and whoever looks into the books of hadith will find this.
12. The Rāfiḍah have exaggerated concerning Ahl al-Bayt to the point that they elevated them beyond their proper rank, gave them something of Allah’s exclusive rights, and even began to worship them, calling upon them in times of hardship and distress while forgetting Allah.
13. Anyone who exaggerates about ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, and Ahl al-Bayt, and who curses and reviles Abu Bakr and ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with them both, is a Shi’i who is in opposition to the way of ‘Ali, may Allah be pleased with him.
14. Ahl al-Sunnah hate those who hate the noble Companions, may Allah be pleased with them all, namely the Rāfiḍah, and they disavow them because they are deviants who oppose the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ.
15. From the danger of the Shi’ah and Shi’ism is that they seek to alter the religion and misguide mankind; they oppose the people of Islam and the Sunnah in everything.
16. Whoever reflects on the beliefs of the Rāfiḍah will find that they are not upon the religion of Islam; rather, they oppose Islam in all of its beliefs.
17. The very foundation of the Rāfiḍah’s call is to undermine the religion and oppose Islam.
18. The Rāfiḍah have been at war with Islam and the Muslims from the earliest times until our present day, and whoever looks at history will see this clearly.
19. In this era, after the establishment of the Rāfiḍi state in Iran, the danger of the Shi’ah has increased and their evil has worsened, while Ahl al-Sunnah are heedless and inattentive to their ideas and beliefs.
20. The danger of the Shi’ah has grown due to the ignorance of many among Ahl al-Sunnah regarding Shi’ah beliefs, and due to their thinking that the difference between us and the Shi’ah is like the difference between the followers of the four madhhabs.
21. Al-Tirmidhi narrated the hadith: “I am the house of wisdom and ‘Ali is its door” and said: “This is a strange, denounced hadith.” Ibn al-Jawzi mentioned it in al-Mawdu‘at (Fabricated Reports), and al-Albani declared it fabricated.
22. The hadith: “The duel of ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib against ‘Amr ibn ‘Abd Wudd on the Day of the Trench is better than the deeds of my entire Ummah until the Day of Resurrection” was narrated by al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak. Al-Dhahabi said in al-Talkhis: “May Allah disgrace the Rāfidī who fabricated it.”
23. The hadith: “I, Harun ibn ‘Imran, Yahya ibn Zakariya, and ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib were created from one clay” was mentioned by Ibn al-Jawzi in al-Mawdu‘at.
24. The Prophet’s saying to ‘Ali: “You are my inheritor” was mentioned by Ibn al-Jawzi in al-Mawdu‘at, who said: “This hadith was fabricated by al-Abzari, who was a liar.” Al-Dhahabi said about him: “A shameless liar.”
25. Al-Mizzi mentioned in Tahdhib al-Kamal the hadith: “I am the city of knowledge and ‘Ali is its gate” and said: “It has no basis.”
26. The hadith: “The love of ‘Ali consumes sins just as fire consumes firewood” was narrated by Ibn ‘Asakir and al-Suyuti; al-Shawkani and al-Albani declared it false.
27. The hadith: “‘Ali is with the Qur’an, and the Qur’an is with him; they will never separate until they return to me at the Ḥawḍ (the Pond)” was narrated by al-Hakim and al-Tabarani in al-Awsat. It contains Salih ibn Abi al-Aswad, who is weak; al-Albani also graded it weak.
28. The Rāfiḍah’s exaggeration in their love for ‘Ali led them to fabricate many hadiths about his virtues, most of which actually disgrace and harm him. They also invented their own jurisprudential doctrines and superstitions that contradict consensus.
29. Ibn Saba is the founder of the Shi’i religion; he was a Jew who outwardly professed Islam in order to spread turmoil and discord among the Muslims. Whoever reads history knows this.
30. The Shi’ah have combined all that sound natures despise, filthy morals, wickedness, crimes, fraud, and forgery, and they attribute these to the family of the Prophet falsely and slanderously, without any shame or fear of Allah.
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