A Critical Study on Ibn Taymiyyah's Approach in Minhaj as-Sunnah about Imam Ali's Scientific Status

Through denying and undermining validity of hadithes or distracting the address of Imam Ali’s hadithes and ascribing them to someone else, Ibn Taymiyyah attempts to disparage the opinions of the Shiites about the authority of Imam Ali (AS) in Minhaj as-Sunnah so that he attempts to find Sahabah’s scientific status preferable to Imam Ali, relying on fake and unreal traditions. Therefore, in this paper, it is attempted to reject Ibn Taymiyyah’s claims and statements, given abundant resources and recording historical events in literature among Sunnis. And prove that he is to what extent malice to Imam Ali (AS), and does his best in order to misrepresent the facts that historians and traditionists have made every endeavour to capture and record them.