ibn Abī Tālib [may Allah be pleased with him] (1), and others, such as Abū Jafar al-Bāqir, Jafar [ibn Muhammad] (2) al-Sādiq, and others.

[For this reason, the Imāmiyya would not say, “It is created,” once they learned that the imams of the Prophet’s Household had denied this. Instead, they said, “It is originated and unknown,” though what they meant by this was that it was created. They believed that when the Prophet’s Household described it as “not created,” they meant only that it was not a false fabrication.

There is no doubt that all Muslims reject this meaning—both those who say that it is created and those who say that it is not created. The dispute among those who face the qibla concerned only whether it is something Allah created or whether it is His speech, which He spoke and which subsists in His Essence. This is what the Prophet’s Household were asked about. Otherwise, no Muslim disputes that it is false to claim that the Quran is a fabricated lie.] (3).

But the Imāmiyya oppose the Prophet’s Household in most of their fundamental doctrines. There was no one among (4) the imams of the Prophet’s Household—such as Alī ibn al-Husayn, Abū Jafar al-Bāqir, and his son Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Sādiq—who denied the vision of Allah, held that the Quran was created (5), denied divine decree, maintained that Alī had been explicitly designated, affirmed the infallibility of the Twelve Imams, or reviled Abū Bakr and Umar (6).