It may be said:
Among the afflictions visited upon al-Husayn’s descendants is that the Rāfidah claim affiliation with them and venerate [and praise] (1) them. They praise them in terms that are not truly praise, make claims on their behalf for which there is no proof, and make statements such that, were their merit not known independently of the Rāfidah’s words (2), what the Rāfidah say about them would resemble disparagement more than praise. People of discernment know Ali ibn Mūsā by his well-known virtues, noble traits, and praiseworthy qualities suited to his station (3) and befitting him. As for (4) this Rāfidī, he has not established a single virtue of his with evidence.
As for his statement, “Indeed, he (5) was the most ascetic and most learned of all people,” it is a bare assertion without evidence. Anyone who goes to excess regarding a person can make this claim on his behalf. How can that be, when people know that among his contemporaries were those more learned and more ascetic than he was (6), such as al-Shāfi'ī, Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh (7), Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ashhab ibn Abd al-Azīz, Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī, Ma'rūf al-Karkhī, and others like them? Furthermore, no scholar of hadith received anything from him, nor is a single hadith of his narrated in the Six Books (8). The only people who narrate from him are Abū al-Salt al-Harawī and others like him, transmitting collections from his forefathers that contain lies