is abundantly attested in the statements of the early generations and their leading scholars. The evidence in the Quran and Sunnah refuting and condemning its teachings is beyond enumeration. Thus, one whom Allah, His Messenger, and the believers have condemned cannot be equated with one whose condemnation is found neither in the Book of Allah, nor in the Sunnah of His Messenger—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—nor in the statements of the believers.

What further clarifies the matter is that condemnation of the Rāfidah is very frequent in the statements of the early generations and leading scholars. Scholars know that the first to introduce Rāfidism into Islam were certain hypocritical heretics, just as they stated that the first to introduce Jahmism was