Imam al-Shafi’i set the standard for loving Sayidena Abu Bakr and Sayidena Ali and showed how there is no conflict in doing so(from The Perfect Family p61): If we speak well of ʿAlī, we will be called Rawāfiḍ[1] And the ignorant fools will accuse us of tafḍīl[2]; If we speak of the virtues of Abū Bakr, We will be accused of naṣb[3] merely by mentioning them. It seems that, because of how I love them both, I will be…
Muḥammad the Prophet is my brother and father-in-law, Ḥamza, the master of martyrs, is my uncle; Jāʿfar, the man who flies with the angels Morning and evening, is my mother’s son; Muḥammad’s daughter is my bride and my partner, And our flesh and blood are intertwined; Aḥmad’s grandsons are my own two sons; So who among you, then, has a status like mine? I was the first of you all to enter Islam, Still a boy whose adolescence had not…
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