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Ali is my root and Jafar is my branch

Ali is my root and Jafar is my branch

علي أصلي و جعفر فرعي

‘Ali is my root and Jafar is my branch

The narration is da’if. There are many majhul narrators therein.

Abdullah ibn Muawiyah

Majhul al hal (condition unknown) in narrating.

Ibn Hazm commented on him, “He had a corrupt religion, a mu’attil[1]. Accompanied the atheists.”

Salih ibn Muawiyah

Has no documented biography.

Muhammad ibn Ismail ibn Jafar

Majhul

As a result, al Haythami remarked, “There are narrators therein who I do not recognise.”[2]

[1] One who denies Allah of all His attributes.

[2] Majma’ al Zawa’id vol. 9 pg. 273.