
Yanbuʿ Was Not Fadak
A critical Twelver Shia refutation of the claim that Umar’s grant of Yanbuʿ to Imam Ali compensated for Fadak, using Qur’an, Sunni and Shia sources to examine owners
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A critical Twelver Shia refutation of the claim that Umar’s grant of Yanbuʿ to Imam Ali compensated for Fadak, using Qur’an, Sunni and Shia sources to examine owners

Sunni sources contain ṣaḥīḥ-level evidence that the guide is a Hāshimī man; Sunni scholars identify that Hāshimī guide as ʿAlī; and Shia ṣaḥīḥ narrations confirms.

Explore the established Shia position on Aisha's age through early Imami sources, leading Shia scholars, and historical evidence.

A study of Sunni evidence on Aisha's age and reports of her marriage before the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

A critical review of the Tabari report claiming Imam Husayn accepted Yazid, examining its broken chain, Shia sources, and the eyewitness denial.

A source-based analysis of the "City of Knowledge" hadith, examining Sunni rijal, narrator criticism, corroborating routes, and why many Sunni scholars rejected call

A source-based study of Hadith al-Ghadir examining its authentic Sunni narrations, the meaning of mawla, the Yemen context and Imam Ali's post-Prophetic wilayah.

A source-based analysis of authentic and Hasan Sunni reports concerning Banu Umayyah, Banu Marwan and al-Hakam, answering claims that such evidence does not exist.

A source-based study showing the mainstream Twelver belief about Imam al-Mahdi's occultation and refuting the claim that he is hiding in a cellar in Samarra.

A source-based study of the Twelve Imams, the Qur'anic pattern of twelve, the authentic Sunni hadith of twelve caliphs, and the Twelver Shia identification.

A source-based analysis of the Sunni report about Imam Ali and Uthman, showing it denies personal hostility but not their serious religious disagreements.

A source-based study examining Abdullah ibn Saba, showing that Shia Imams condemned him and exposing the lack of evidence that he founded Shiism.