List of the Shia Liars & Fraudsters whose Reports MUST be REJECTED!!!

 

Many fabricated accounts were transmitted by liars concerning the noble Companions, the Successors, and those who came after them. Most of those who transmitted these accounts were narrators from various sects and schools of thought, and most of them combined lying about Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam with lying about other people. I have counted about thirty such lying narrators, some of whom I will mention below.

Regarding those who lied about the Companions, there is a well-known group that specialises in lying about them and defaming them. Among them are the poet Sayyid al-Himyari al-Shi'i, Mina ibn Abi Mina, Abu al-Jarud Ziyad ibn al-Mundhir al-Kufi, Abu Muhammad ibn Khurash, Ahmad al-Juwaybari, and Ibn Tamim al-Sa'di.

Those who lied about ‘Ali radiyallahu 'anhu and the Ahl al-Bayt radiyallahu 'anhum were numerous, most of them Shia. Among them were Abbad ibn Abdullah al-Asadi, al-Harith ibn Abdullah al-Awar al-Hamdani, Muhammad ibn al-Sa’ib al-Kalbi al-Kufi, Amr ibn Abd al-Ghaffar al-Tamimi, Banan ibn Sam’an, and al-Mughirah ibn Sa’id al-Kufi, who claimed prophethood.

It has been narrated that Ja’far al-Sadiq used to say: “Allāh and His Messenger disavowed al-Mughirah and Banan ibn Sam’an, for they lied about us, the Ahl al-Bayt.”

Sulayman al-A’mash (d. 148 AH) said about al-Mughirah ibn Sa’id: “There was no one in Kufa more cursed than him in what was narrated about him of forgery concerning Ali ibn Abi Talib and the Ahl al-Bayt. He was always lying about them, and I do not know of any hadith with a chain of transmission for him.”

Among the lies and delusions of al-Mughira ibn Sa'id is his swearing to al-A'mash that Ali radiyallahu 'anhu could raise the dead, and that if he wished, he could have resurrected the people of 'Ad and Thamud! Al-A'mash asked him, "How do you know that?" He replied that he went to a man from the Prophet's family—whom he did not name—and that the man spat in his mouth, and that he then knew everything, and through that knowledge, he knew that Ali could raise the dead! 

Look at this shameless, heretical charlatan, how he lies about the Prophet's family without any shame, and claims that he has come to know everything, a quality that belongs only to Allāh, the One and Only. 

Among their lies about Ali ibn Abi Talib radiyallahu 'anhu are two narrations. The first is what the liar Abbad ibn Abdullah al-Asadi narrated, that Ali said: “I am the servant of Allāh and the brother of the Messenger of Allāh, and I am the greatest truthful one. No one has said this before me, and only a lying fabricator would say it. I embraced Islam seven years before anyone else.”

This narration, according to al-Dhahabi rahimahullah, is a lie against Ali ibn Abi Talib radiyallahu 'anhu, because it is one of the most blatant lies. How could 'Ali radiyallahu 'anhu embrace Islam seven years before the revelation was sent down to the Messenger of  Allāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam? 

Allāh Ta'ala says to him: “You did not know what the Book was, nor what faith was.” It is also established that many of the early Companions embraced Islam in the first year of the Islamic call, and some of them embraced Islam immediately after the revelation was sent down, such as Khadija, Abu Bakr, Zayd, and Uthman radiyallahu 'anhum.

After all this, is it valid to claim that Ali radiyallahu 'anhu believed seven years before anyone else?! What completely refutes this claim is that 'Ali radiyallahu 'anhu was a boy, 5 or 7 years old, when the revelation was sent down - so how could he believe seven years before the people when he was either not yet born, or was only one year old?!!

The second narration was fabricated by the liar Muhammad ibn al-Sa'ib al-Kalbi. He narrated that Jibrīl 'alayhi as-salaam was dictating revelation to the Messenger of Allāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, and when he entered the lavatory, Jibrīl 'alayhi as-salaam continued dictating the revelation, dictating it to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib radiyallahu 'anhu. Look at this shameless charlatan, how he fabricates lies without any sense of decency, speaks about Allāh and His Messenger without knowledge, insults Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, and makes 'Ali radiyallahu 'anhu a partner in prophethood! There is no doubt that whoever narrates such a thing is an unbeliever and a heretic.

There is no doubt that 'Ali radiyallahu 'anhu and the Ahl al-Bayt radiyallahu 'anhum are innocent of these lies. Their opponents from among the Shia, the Nawasib, the Kharijites, and others have lied about them extensively.

Shu'bah ibn al-Hajjaj and Husayn ibn 'Amir said, "No one in this nation has been lied about as much as 'Ali radiyallahu 'anhu."

Muhammad ibn Sirin rahimahullah said, "Most of what is narrated about 'Ali ibn Abi Talib radiyallahu 'anhu is false."

Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah mentioned that the Rafidah (Shi'a) fabricated about three hundred thousand hadiths concerning the virtues of 'Ali radiyallahu 'anhu and the Ahl al-Bayt radiyallahu 'anhum. He then said that this is not far-fetched, for if one were to examine the narrations held by the Rafidah, one would find this to be the case.

   That is what the Shia fabricated against the Ahl al-Bayt. So why did they lie about them, while they claim to be their followers? It seems to me that there are three main reasons that prompted them to lie about them. The first is that the early Shia Rafida, when they were on a false path and misguided thought, opposed to the Ahl al-Bayt, while they claimed to be on their path and thought, this prompted them to lie about them, and to establish a new sect that agreed with their misguided ideas, and then they attributed it to the Ahl al-Bayt.

     The second reason is that since the Rafidah doctrine – in all its various branches – completely contradicts the Noble Qur'an, this led them to lie about the Ahl al-Bayt and to take these fabricated statements as sacred legal evidence to refute what is stated in the Noble Qur'an and to establish their false doctrine. The third reason is that since the authentic Sunnah of Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam and the well-established historical events contradict their doctrine, they resorted to lying about the Messenger of Allāh – may God bless him and grant him peace – and his family and companions, to reject the well-established Sunnah of the Prophet and the historical events, to establish their doctrine and to support their falsehood.

Among the liars were those who specialised in attacking and defaming the Companions of the Prophet by fabricating and spreading falsehoods. For example, the liar Abu Maryam Abd al-Ghaffar ibn al-Qasim al-Kufi fabricated hadiths and reports, and narrated faults concerning 'Uthman ibn Affan radiyallahu 'anhu, and transmitted calamities about him. This led the scholar Ibn Hibban to say: It is not permissible to use Abu Maryam as a source of evidence.

The second is the liar Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Ajli, who used to criticise Uthman ibn Affan radiyallahu 'anhu, and he narrated a long, fabricated story about his killing, which he is accused of fabricating.

The third is Abd al-Rahman ibn Yusuf ibn Kharash al-Shi’i (d. 283 AH), a liar accused of heresy, who lied about the two sheikhs, Abu Bakr and Umar - radiyallahu 'anhuma - and he wrote two treatises on their faults.

The fourth is Abu Shaybah Ibrahim ibn Uthman al-Kufi (d. 260 AH), who claimed that seventy Companions who had fought at Badr witnessed the Battle of Siffin, and Shu’bah ibn al-Hajjaj refuted him in this claim. It has become clear to me from studying this issue that what Abu Shaybah claimed about the participation of seventy Companions who had fought at Badr in the Battle of Siffin is an unproven claim, and that it is merely an assertion without evidence, and that the number of Companions who had fought at Badr who participated in Siffin was small, not exceeding twenty men at the most.

Among their lies is also the claim that some of them invented imaginary characters as companions who did not exist. They mentioned among them: Abd al-Nur al-Jinni, Muammar, Maklabah ibn Malkan al-Khwarizmi, Musa al-Ansari, Yasr ibn Abdullah, and Nestor al-Rumi. These last two are liars, each of whom claimed to be a companion who lived three hundred years after the Messenger of Allāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam. 

 As for their lies – that is, the lies of the narrators – about the Successors and those who came after them, I will mention – In-shā’ Allāh – a diverse group of them. The first is that the theologian Amr ibn Ubayd al-Basri al-Mu'tazili (d. 2 AH) used to lie about al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110 AH) and narrate falsehoods from him, including claiming that al-Hasan told him the hadith: “If you see Mu'awiyah on the pulpit, kill him.” This is a fabricated hadith. The second is that the hadith scholar Nu'aym ibn Hammad (d. 228 AH) used to invent false stories to slander Abu Hanifah al-Nu'man and narrate them on the authority of scholars.

The third is that the liar Abu Saeed Aban bin Ja'far al-Basri was a specialist in lying about Imam Abu Hanifa rahimahullah, and he fabricated many hadiths on his authority, more than 300 hadiths, which Abu Hanifa rahimahullah never narrated. When al-Hafiz Ibn Hibban went to him to narrate them and brought out those hadiths for him, he became angry with him, forbade him from doing so, and told him to fear Allāh, then he left him.

The fourth one is also related to Abu Hanifa rahimahullah. The liar Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Salt al-Hamani (d. 302 AH) narrated that Imam Abu Hanifa rahimahullah said: “I performed Hajj with my father when I was eighteen years old. We passed by a gathering, and there was a man. I said, ‘Who is this?’ They said, ‘Abdullah ibn al-Harith ibn Juz’ al-Zubaidi.’” This is a fabricated report because Ibn Juz’ died in Egypt when Abu Hanifa rahimahullah was six years old.

The fifth is a report claiming that the historian Muhammad ibn Ishaq presented a hadith narrated by Fatima bint al-Mundhir, but her husband, Hisham ibn Urwa, refuted him, saying that she entered his presence when she was nine years old, and that Ibn Ishaq never saw her until she passed away. This report is a fabrication by Sulayman ibn Dawud al-Shadhkuni, not Ibn Ishaq, because al-Shadhkuni is accused of lying, and he is one of the narrators of this report. Furthermore, the text itself contains evidence of its falsehood, since when Fatima bint al-Mundhir was nine years old, her husband, Hisham ibn Urwa, had not yet been born, as she was more than ten years older than him. Is it conceivable that he would marry her when she was nine years old and he was not yet born?!

 The sixth is what was narrated by the narrator Al-Husayn ibn Al-Qasim Al-Kawkabi, who is accused of lying, that Harun Al-Rashid performed Hajj with Ibrahim Al-Jurjani. When they entered Medina, Al-Jurjani found two men inside the Masjid of Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam, one of whom was singing. He objected to his action, and one of them replied, “We are in a garden from the gardens of Paradise, and in Paradise there is whatever the souls desire.” Al-Jurjani said to him, “Shame on you, old man!” The man said, “I know Allāh and His Messenger better than you.” So Al-Jurjani left them and went to Al-Rashid and told him what he had seen in the mosque. Al-Rashid summoned the two men, and one of them was the jurist of Mecca, Abu Al-Walid ibn Jurayj. Al-Rashid spoke to him and conversed with him, and he told him a strange story that Ibn Hajar did not narrate in Lisan Al-Mizan, and he sufficed with referring to it. However, he alerted us to the fact that this narration narrated by Al-Husayn Al-Kawkabi is far from being true, and its falsehood is evidenced by the fact that Ibn Jurayj, mentioned in the story, had died before Al-Mahdi - the father of Al-Rashid - assumed the caliphate. This is because Ibn Jurayj died in the year 150 AH, and Al-Rashid assumed the caliphate after the death of his brother Al-Hadi in the year 170 AH. So there are twenty years between Ibn Jurayj and Al-Rashid, and this is conclusive evidence that the narration is a lie fabricated by Al-Husayn Al-Kawkabi.

There is another group of lying narrators, of whom I will mention a few. The first is Isa ibn Da’b al-Madini (d. 2nd AH), who fabricated poems and tales and attributed them to the Arabs, thus losing his standing among scholars.

The second is the liar Hisham ibn Muhammad al-Kalbi (d. 204 AH), who narrated fabricated stories in various fields. Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani accused him of lying, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal rahimahullah said of him: “He was merely a storyteller and genealogist; I never thought anyone would narrate from him.”

Another is Bukayr ibn al-Mu’tamir al-Baghdadi (d. 3rd AH), who fabricated stories for Caliph al-Amin during his wars with his opponents. The last is an unknown liar who invented a fictional, legendary character called Ratan al-Hindi and attributed fabricated stories to him.

In conclusion, this research shows us that most of the lying narrators combined lying about the Messenger of Allāh - sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam - with lying about other people, and that they covered various areas of life with their fabrications. I counted about thirty lying narrators among them, out of a total of more than 350 liars

It also became clear that, through the presentation of many fabricated narrations, which were criticised and exposed as false by the hadith scholars, they demonstrated skill in criticism and investigation, combining the chain of transmission and the text. This proves that the claim made by some contemporary researchers that the hadith scholars focused on criticising the chain of transmission and neglected the text is incorrect.

Al-Dhahabi rahimahullah said: “Most of what the Rafidah narrate is false. Their habit is to narrate fabrications, reject what is found in the Sahihs and their chains of transmission, declare the Companions of the Prophet to be disbelievers, and cloak themselves in dissimulation (taqiyyah) and hypocrisy. Those who are in such a state cannot have their narrations accepted, nor can their words be used as evidence.”

Ibn Hajar rahimahullah said: “The Shia cannot be trusted in their transmission.” Further confirming what these scholars said about the Rafidah is that the number of hadiths the Shia fabricated about Ali and the Ahl al-Bayt (may Allāh be pleased with them) is estimated at around three hundred thousand.