The best of people are those of my era, then those after, then those after them

I performed Salah with the nabi salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam before anyone performed salah with him

صليت مع النبي قبل أن يصلي عليه أحد

I performed Salah with the nabi salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam before anyone performed salah with him.

This statement is attributed to Sayyidina ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib radiya Llahu ‘anhu.

The isnad is da’if.

Jabir ibn Yazid al Ju’fi and Sufyan ibn Waki’ are present in the isnad. I have not located it in any hadith compilation.

Ali’s strike on the Day of the Trench is superior to the worship of mankind and jinnkind

ضربة علي يوم الخندق أفضل من عبادة الثقلين

‘Ali’s strike on the Day of the Trench is superior to the worship of mankind and jinnkind.

It has absolutely no basis. I have not found it in any Sunni hadith compilation. Despite this, al Jaza’iri claims that it is mutawatir.[1]

Part of the audaciousness, carelessness, irresponsibility and hastiness of the Shia is to falsely describe narrations supporting their creed as mutawatir.

Al Tusi says, “The entire Shari’ah is not mutawatir. In fact, tawatur is only existent in a handful of rulings.”[2]

Nur Allah quotes the emphatic pronunciation of the majority of ‘Ulama’ of Usul that mutawatir are extremely few in number.[3]

What is really startling is where this strike of the overpowering sword of Allah―as claimed by the Shia―disappear to when he pledged allegiance to the Khalifas, named his sons after the three Khalifas, and married his daughter Umm Kulthum to Sayyidina ‘Umar ibn al Khattab radiya Llahu ‘anhu; all of this while observing Taqiyyah.

When he remained silent and inactive as they suppose from defending Sayyidah Fatimah radiya Llahu ‘anha when they broke her rib, set her house alight, and miscarried her foetus then he perpetrated a sin worse than the sins of mankind and jinnkind.

[1] Al Anwar al Nu’maniyyah vol. 1 pg. 52.

[2] Al Iqtisad pg. 187.

[3] Al Sawarim al Muhriqah pg. 277.