How is the Hadith that says that the Prophet's successors will be twelve, all of them from Quraish, explicit since it mentions no names, nor any specific time periods?
How is the Hadith that says that the Prophet's successors will be twelve, all of them from Quraish, explicit since it mentions no names, nor any specific time periods?
Vinay Khetia, Shaikh Vinay Khetia has studied at various traditional Islamic seminaries in London, Iraq and Syria. He has an undergraduate degree in Religious and Near Eastern Studies from the University of... Answered 5 years ago
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Salaamun Alaykum,
The 12 successors hadith is common between Sunnis and Shiis.Even then the Twelver Shia are the only ones who uniquely have 12 Imams all of them being from Quraysh. This in itself is an important indication.
There are other explicit traditions in the Shii collections in which the Prophet names the 12 Imams. This can be found in Kamal al-Din of Sh. al-Saduq as one such example.
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Sh.Vinay