- The Prophet (PBUH) said to one of his Companions named Jabir Ibn Abdullah Ansari: "You will see a man from my family whose name is my name, his behavior and actions are my behavior and actions, and he penetrates knowledge to its depths."
Imam Baqir (AS)
Analysis of Shia political situation in Imam Baqir's words - 2:
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...In order to reach the government with our right and priority, they argued to the to our Wilayah (gardianship and leadership), but they took over our right. Then the government was transferred from hand to hand among the Quraysh until it returned to us Ahl al-Bayt. But the people broke our allegiance and started a war against us, in such a way that Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (peace be upon him) was in ups and downs [wind of events] until he reached the rank of martyrdom. Then with his son Imam Hassan (peace be upon him) pledged allegiance and promised loyalty to him. But they also betrayed him, and after that, we were continuously humiliated and oppressed, driven from our city and home, deprived of our rights and we were killed and threatened. So that the security of life was taken away from us and our followers in general. The liars and deniers of the right, because of their lies and denials, paved the way for the leaders of oppression throughout the Islamic country through their lies and denials. Judges and their associates approached and started narrating false hadiths and spreading them. They narrated things from our language that neither had flowed from our language nor had we acted on their content. By doing this, they wanted to make us hated among the people, sow the seeds of our enmity and hatred in their hearts. This was a policy that was followed more and more intensively after the death of Imam Hassan (a.s.), during the time of Muawiyah. Following this poisonous propaganda, Shiites were killed everywhere and their hands and feet were cut off with the slightest suspicion... [1]
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[1] Commentary on Nahj al-Balagha, Ibn Abi al-Hadid, vol. 11, p. 43-44:
أبا جعفر محمد بن علي الباقر ع قال لبعض أصحابه يا فلان ما لقينا من ظلم قريش إيانا و تظاهرهم علينا و ما لقي شيعتنا و محبونا من الناس إن رسول الله ص قبض و قد أخبر أنا أولى الناس بالناس فتمالأت علينا قريش حتى أخرجت الأمر عن معدنه...