The rightly-guided caliphs: the range of views preserved in Hadith
Sunni hadith literature of the ninth century preserves numerous different opinions as to which caliphs were righteously guiding and guided. There is support for a theory of just two, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, for these two plus 'Uthman, for these three plus 'Ali, with variants that give onl...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
2019
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| Summary: | Sunni hadith literature of the ninth century preserves numerous different opinions as to which caliphs were righteously guiding and guided. There is support for a theory of just two, Abu Bakr and 'Umar, for these two plus 'Uthman, for these three plus 'Ali, with variants that give only half-honours to 'Uthman or 'Ali. It is hard only to find hadith in these collections preferring 'Ali to 'Uthman, although some prominent Sunni traditionists were quoted as upholding such a preference. The suggestion seems to be that some disagreement was legitimate and should not occasion fighting. |
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