Examination of the Varieties of Distorting the Hadith of Thaqalayn in the non-Shii Sources

Investigation and search in religious sources indicates the widespread non-hospitability, distortion and censorship of those documents which explicitly or implicitly brought up the high status of the house of Infallibility (AS) and their status of the Guardianship and Imamate. The question is that whether have any successive (motawater) hadiths such as Hadith of Thaqalayn been safe from these distortions? The findings show that unfortunately the most authentic Islamic hadiths, such as venerable Hadith of Thaqalayn, have not been protected from the razor of distortion, and unclean hands with various purposes have attempted to diminish the message of this hadith and even disrupt it in the topic of the Guardianship and Imamate. These distortions, sometimes literal and sometimes in the meaning, prompted protests by some unprejudiced Sunni scholars. Considering the auspicious results of this hadith in introducing the legitimacy of the Shiite school and proving the arrogance of the opponents in it, and the need to protect the spiritual and religious capital, we decided to look at some distortions in this hadith, using the library method and relying on the authentic Sunni sources.