Sunni scholars throughout Islamic history have documented several core doctrinal, historical, and communal harms that Shiism—particularly the Rafidah/Imamiyyah sect—has inflicted upon the religion of Islam and the Muslim Ummah:
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### 1. Undermining the Foundations of the Quran and Sunnah
* **Attacking the Companions (الصحابة):**
The core transmitters of the revelation, the Quran, and the prophetic traditions were the Companions. Classical Shiite doctrine charges the vast majority of the Companions with apostasy after the Prophet's ﷺ demise, sparing only a handful [1][2][3]. Early scholars like أبو زرعة الرازي pointed out that defaming the Companions directly seeks to invalidate the testimony through which the Quran and Sunnah reached future generations [4][5].
* **Claims of Quranic Distortion (تحريف القرآن):**
Prominent classical and later Shia authors claimed that the Quran compiled by the Companions was altered, omitted from, or incomplete—culminating in infamous works such as *Fasl al-Khitab* by النوري الطبرسي [6][7][8].
* **Rejection and Distortion of Prophetic Hadith:**
By rejecting the narrations transmitted by the mainstream Companions, authentic hadith collections were discarded in favor of fabricated narrations attributed to their Imams without objective chains of verification (الإسناد) [9][10][11].
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### 2. Theological Deviations and Extremism (الغلو)
* **Excessive Claims Regarding the Imams:**
Attributing infallibility (العصمة), knowledge of the unseen, and near-divine authority to their Twelve Imams, thereby blurring the Islamic boundary of absolute divine sovereignty (توحيد الربوبية والألوهية) [12][13][14].
* **Institutionalizing Dissimulation (التقية):**
Elevating concealment and deception into a foundational pillar of faith, which undermined mutual trust among Muslims and created a culture of duplicity [15][9][16].
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### 3. Sowing Division and Declaring Muslims Disbelievers (التكفير)
* **Excommunicating the Broader Ummah:**
Belief in the divinely appointed imamate was made a fundamental condition of faith; anyone who does not believe in the specific lineage of Imams or who respects the caliphate of the early Rightly Guided
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