A number of historians have composed books on the character of some of the Companions and the Successors. What follows is a brief survey of some of these books.<\/p>\n
Sayyid Ali Khan Madani (d. 1120\/1708) wrote a book entitled al-Darajat al-Rafia f\u012b Taqabat al-Shia al-Imamiyya. The first chapter of this book covers the Shia of the Banu Hashim and the second the non-Banu Hashim, introducing twenty three and forty six Companions respectively. He then introduces the Shia amongst the Successors.<\/p>\n
Muhammad Husayn Kashif al-Ghita (1294\u20131373\/1877\u20131954) introduces some of the close companions of Ali in Asl al-Shia wa Usuliha For example, he names Abu Dharr Al-Ghifari, Miqdad ibn Aswad al-Kindi, Ammar ibn Yasir, Khuzayma Dhu al-Shahadatayn bin Tayhan, Hudhayfa ibn Yaman, Zubayr, Fadl ibn Abbas and his brother, Abd Allah, Hashim ibn Utba al-Mirqal, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Aban bin Said ibn al-As, Khalid ibn Said ibn al-As, Ubayy ibn Kab, Anas ibn al-Hirth, and many others.<\/p>\n
Sayyid Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din identifies 200 persons as the first Shia in Islamic history in his al-Fusul al-Muhimma f\u012b Talif al-Umma (179-90). In a similar way, Dr. Ahmad al-Waili identifies, in Huwiyyat al-Tashayyu, 130 of the Prophet\u2019s Companions who were also the close followers of Ali and concludes that it would have been impossible for such a great number of people to love and follow Ali so intimately without the Prophet\u2019s permission (34). I have likewise introduced some of Shia pioneers and have investigated their lives and reasons for belonging to Shia in a book entitled Islamic Personalities.<\/p>\n
(For more information, see also al-Ist\u012b\u02bf\u0101b f\u012b Ma\u02bfrifat al-A\u1e63\u1e25\u0101b by Ibn \u02bfAbd al-Birr (d. 456\/1063), Usud al-Gh\u0101ba f\u012b Ma\u02bfrifat al-\u1e62a\u1e25\u0101ba by Ibn Ath\u012br and al-I\u1e63\u0101ba f\u012b Tamy\u012bz al-\u1e62a\u1e25\u0101ba by Ibn \u1e24ajar al-\u02bfAsqal\u0101n\u012b (d. 852\/1448). )<\/p>\n
Source: Sh\u012ba Islam: History and Doctrines, Ayatull\u0101h Ja\u02bffar Sub\u1e25\u0101n\u012b, Chapter 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Forerunners of the Shia in Time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) A number of historians have composed books on the character of some of the Companions and the Successors. What follows is a brief survey of some of these books. Sayyid Ali Khan Madani (d. 1120\/1708) wrote a book entitled al-Darajat al-Rafia f\u012b Taqabat al-Shia al-Imamiyya. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7465],"tags":[13763,7573,10822,20130,20196,19669],"class_list":["post-13145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-history-of-islam","tag-ahl-al-bayt-a-s","tag-imam-ali","tag-shaistudies","tag-shia-beliefs","tag-shia-imams","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}