Abdullah ibn Saba and other Myths
- Copyright Notice
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION BY THE TRANSLATOR
- Comments by AL-SHEIKH JAWÃD MUGHNIAH (A Shi‘ah Scholar)
- Comments by PROFESSOR JAMES ROBINSON D.Litt., D.D.Glasgow, U.K.
- INTRODUCTION
- PREFACE
- THE TALE OF ‘ABDULLÃH BIN SABA’
- THE ORIGIN OF THE TALE AND OF THE STORY TELLERS
- INVESTIGATION CONCERNING SAIF AND HIS NARRATIONS
- 1. OSÃMA ARMY
- SOME SAHÃBĪS INTRODUCED
- 2. SAIF AND SAQIFAH
- AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TRUTH OF THE STORIES CONCERNING SAQIFAH RECORDED BY SAIF
- THE STORY TELLER
- SAQĪFAH AND OTHER HISRORIANS APART FROM SAIF — SAQĪFAH AND ABUBAKR
- Did the Prophet express his wishes in writing?
- THE PROPHET’S DEATH
- SECOND CANDIDATE FOR THE SUCCESSION TO THE PROPHET
- THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE
- WARNING
- THE PUBLIC ALLEGIANCE
- COMMENTS MADE BY VARIOUS PEOPLE ABOUT THE ALLEGIANCE
- 3. HERESY
- 4 — MÃLIK BIN NOWAIRA
- 5 — STORY OF ‘ALÃ΄ BIN HAZRAMI
- 6 — HAW’AB, THE LAND OF THE DOGS
- 7 — TO CORRECT THE FAMILY TREE OF ZIÃD
- 8 — THE STORY OF MOGHAIRA BIN SHO‘BA
- 9 — THE IMPRISONMENT OF ABU MEHJAN
- 10 — SAIF’S DAYS
- 11 — CONSULTATION AND ALLEGIANCE TO ‘OTHMÃN
- 12 — QUMMÃDHBÃN SON OF HORMOZÃN ACCORDING TO SAIF
- 13 — CITIES INVENTED BY SAIF
- 14 — SAIF AND THE DATES OF THE EVENTS
- CONCLUSION
- THE END OF TRANSLATION
- A NOTE BY THE EDITOR
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