A Critique of Faisal Noor's Demurs on the Clearly Quoted Statements of Imam Hadi's Imamate

There may be found such a number of clear quoted texts referring to twelve Imams` imamat that on which one can easily claim tawator. Of such quotes one may find in Sunni sources also. On such quotes Imamiyyah claims that the Prophet`s substitutes include twelve people of his household divinely appointed to imamate and introduced by Prophet to people. Faisal Noor, a vahhabi writer, in his work, Alemamah wa an-Nass, has denied all such quotes and has tried to prove his claim based on Shiite sources. In some part of the work, he has focused on Imam Hadi (a) and, having quoted some traditions in the field, concluded that there has been no clear quote on the problem of imamate at all and the traditions documented by Imamiyyah have been made by Shiite scholars, years after the time of Prophet and Imams. This paper has criticized the claim and has shown that opposing hadith-writing, the cruel climate of Imam Hadi era and some demurs on Imam`s qualities as well as the state of power-seeking have misled some Shiites