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Chapter 26 of 1481 min read
سيرة علي بن أبي طالب — الجزء 26
intended in this document to state that 'Ali (&) should he the caliph, and the claim of some of the RZdis that there is no other rational interpretation, this claim is false. Ibn Taymiyah said: "Whoever thinks that this document was to appoint 'Ali (&) as the caliph is misguided according to all scholars, both Sunni and Shia. As for the Snnnis, they are agreed on the superiority of Abu Bakr (&) and that he should be given precedence. As for those who said that 'Ali (&) was deserving of the imamate, they say that his imamate had already been stated before that, as they claim, in clear and unambiguous terms, so there was no need for this document."545
'Ali ibn Abi Tdlib