29. Ayatullah al-Muzaffar (d. 1375 A.H.)

 

`Allama Ayatullah Shaikh Muhammed Hasan al-Muzaffar has said,

 

As a whole, suffices the evidence of the intention to bury what is narrated by a host of their scholars, even the narrative of one of them, especially since it is consecutively reported by the Shi`as. Nobody is in need for the narratives of al-Bukhari or Muslim or their likes who were exhausted by their enmity towards the Progeny of Muhammed (A.S.) and loyalty to their foes and who always courted their kings and rulers and who enjoyed a good reputation among their commoners.”^[1]

He also said, “Anyone who is acquainted with how rough `Omer was as he dealt with the Prophet (A.S.) by word and by action does not find it hard to believe that he was the one behind the burning incident as well as with the events that preceded it” adding, “Yet the burning, had it taken place (completely), is not greater than usurping the caliphate (from Ali [a]).”^[2]