necessarily, from the religion of Muhammad—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—that this doctrine is false. Yet ignorance knows no bounds. Here, he cited no proof other than merely recounting the doctrine, so we have deferred our response to its proper place.
[Response to His Statement: “They Derived Their Subsidiary Rulings from the Infallible Imams”]
As for his statement (1):
“They derived their rulings (2) on subsidiary matters from the infallible imams, who transmitted them from their forefather, the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—(3).”
…to the end of his words.
The response is as follows:
First: The aforementioned men learned the hadiths of their forefather (4) from scholars who were knowledgeable about them, just as all other Muslims did. This is established through mass transmission from them. Thus, Ali ibn al-Husayn (5) would sometimes narrate from Abān ibn Uthmān ibn Affān (6), from (7) Usāma ibn Zayd, the Prophet’s statement (8)—may Allah bless him and grant him peace:
“A Muslim does not inherit from a disbeliever, nor does a disbeliever inherit from a Muslim.”
Al-Bukhārī and Muslim narrated it in the two Sahihs (9), and he heard from Abū Hurayra
(1) The following passage appears in (ك), 1/83 (م), and occurred previously in this volume, p. [0–9]9.
(2) (ك) reads: “the rulings.”
(3) (ك) reads: “May Allah bless him and his family.”
(4) (ب) reads: “learn the hadith”; (أ) reads: “learn hadith,” omitting the word “their forefather.”
(5) His biography was given previously at 2/83 (n. [0–9]).
(6) Abān ibn Uthmān ibn Affān, Abū Sa'īd, who died in 151 AH. Ibn Sa'd said: “Abān narrated from his father. He was trustworthy and transmitted hadiths.” For his biography, see Ibn Sa'd, Tabaqāt, 5/151–153; al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dīl, vol. [0–9], part [0–9], p. [0–9]95; al-Nawawī, Tahdhīb al-Asmā wa al-Lughāt, part [0–9], vol. [0–9], p. [0–9]7; and al-Khazrajī, al-Khulāsa, p. [0–9]3.
(7) (ن) and (م) read: “and from,” which is a corruption.
(8) (ب) and (ا) read: “mawlā” (client of).
(9) Al-Bukhārī narrated the hadith from Usāma ibn Zayd—may Allah be pleased with him—in three places: 2/147–148 (Book of Hajj, chapter “Inheritance of the Houses of Mecca”); 5/147 (Book of Military Expeditions, chapter “Where the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—Planted the Standard on the Day of the Conquest”); and 8/156 (Book of Inheritance, chapter “A Disbeliever Does Not Inherit from a Muslim”). It is also narrated in Muslim, 3/1233 (at the beginning of the Book of Inheritance). At all these locations, its chain of transmission is: Alī ibn al-Husayn, from Amr ibn Uthmān, from Usāma ibn Zayd. Amr ibn Uthmān was Abān’s full brother; see Ibn Sa'd, Tabaqāt, 5/150–151. The hadith is also found in Sunan Abī Dāwūd, 3/286–287 (Book of Inheritance, chapter 14), and Sunan Ibn Mājah, 2/911–912 (Book of Inheritance, chapter “Inheritance by Muslims from Disbelievers”).