During his farewell pilgrimage, Holy Prophet announced glad tidings about his twelve successors. This announcement is reported by Sunni scholars mainly through three narrators. However, they have paid attention mostly to one of these reports, which is narrated by Jābir b. Samura and has some ambiguity at the end. Narrating the glad tidings of the Twelve Imams, the author tries to challenge the approaches of Sunni traditionalists. Questionable brevity of Bukhārī and Muslim in narrating this hadith, preferring a child narrator to all other narrators, and dubious adaption of this Hadith to Umayyad and ‘Abbasid Caliphs are among these challenges.
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