The renown imam, Shaikh Ja`fer KASHIFAL-GHITA’ Senior, trying to prove that the invalidity of the caliphate of Abu Bakr, has said, “... And one of them is the burning of the house of Fatima al-Zahra’ (A.S.) while Ali (A.S.) and al-Hasan (A.S.) and al-Husain (A.S.) were all inside it, and when Ali (A.S.) refused to swear the oath of allegiance to him (to Abu Bakr). This has been transmitted from among the Sunnis by a group including al-Tabari, al-Waqidi, Ibn Hazamah from Zaid ibn Aslam and Ibn `Abd Rabbih, one of their distinguished scholars, and it is narrated in Kitab al-Mahasin and in others.”^[1]

Listing his criticisms against the second caliph, he also said, “... And one of them is how he went to the house of the Prophet (A.S.) and his progeny with the intention to burn it.”^[2]