who prays behind every (1) person given to wickedness and religious innovation likewise holds a weak view. The early Muslims and leading authorities (2) among the Companions and Followers prayed behind such people when they exercised authority over them. Hence, one of the principles of Ahl al-Sunnah is that prayers led by those in authority are to be performed behind them, whatever their condition may be, just as pilgrimage is undertaken and military campaigns are waged with them. These questions (3) are discussed at length elsewhere.
The point here is that the scholars are unanimous that lying is more conspicuous among the Rāfidah than among all the other sects that face the qiblah. Anyone who examines the works of narrator criticism and accreditation concerning the names and standing of narrators and transmitters—such as the works of Yahyā ibn Sa'īd al-Qattān, Alī ibn al-Madīnī, Yahyā ibn Ma'īn, al-Bukhārī, Abū Zur'ah, Abū Hātim al-Rāzī, al-Nasā'ī, Abū Hātim ibn Hibbān, Abū Ahmad ibn Adī, al-Dāraqutnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Ya'qūb al-Jūzajānī al-Sa'dī, Ya'qūb ibn Sufyān al-Fasawī (4), Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Sālih al-Ijlī, al-Uqaylī, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ammār al-Mawsilī, al-Hākim al-Naysābūrī, and the hadith master Abd al-Ghanī ibn Sa'īd al-Misrī, as well as others like them who were master authorities, discerning critics, and experts in evaluating chains of transmission—will find that narrators known to them for lying were more numerous among the Shi'a (5) than among all the other sects combined, to the extent that the compilers of the Sahīh collections, such as al-Bukhārī—