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caliphs are also well-documented, but largely downplayed in Sunni sources, in line with their tendency to neutralize the conflicts among companions. These conflicts were epitomized during the proceedings of the electoral council in 644, when Ali refused to be bound by the precedence of the first two caliphs. Ali was also critical of Uthman, and in this he was joined by most of the senior companions. In early Sunni sources, Ali is portrayed as a restraining influence on Uthman without directly opposing him. By contrast, Shia Islam views Ali as the rightful successor of Muhammad and views Ali's predecessors as usurpers of his rights.
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is likely to be credited. His hierarchy of companions places Ali below his predecessors but above those companions who fought against him, thus accommodating into Sunni doctrine the opposite sides of a moral conflict that has split the Muslim community ever since. Those prophetic sayings that elevate
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unity, Ali eventually accepted the temporal rule of the first three caliphs, but without giving up his claims as the designated successor of Muhammad. In particular, even though Ali may have advised Abu Bakr and Umar on government and religious matters, the conflicts between him and the first two
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unity. During this period, Ali is portrayed in Sunni sources as a trusted advisor of the first three caliphs, while their conflicts with Ali are neutralized or downplayed. Ali himself succeeded to the caliphate in 656 but his rule was immediately challenged by
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to the financial dependence of Ali on Muhammad, who raised the former in his household as a child. Yet other Sunni authors acknowledge the religious prominence of Ali but do not consider that a basis for political succession.
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that Ali corrected a ruling by Umar for a woman accused of adultery, after which the second caliph said, "Were it not for Ali, Umar would indeed have been destroyed." Similar sentiments are attributed to Umar in the Sunni
1009:), who seceded from Ali's army. A member of the Kharijites is thought to be responsible for the assassination of Ali in 661, which paved the way for Mu'awiya, who took over the caliphate in 661 and found the dynastic 844:, Ali is held in a particularly high status in Sunni Islam, although this doctrinal reverence for Ali in Sunni Islam is a recent development for which the prominent traditionist 1118:) deferred judgment about the early caliphs in the interest of Muslim unity. Their position was incorporated into Sunni thought by the prominent traditionist 1086:. Ali thus opposed the caliphate of Abu Bakr, who was hastily elected in the absence of Ali and the rest of Muhammad's kin. Perhaps in the interest of the 1082:
When Muhammad died in 632, Ali had his own claims to leadership, apparently in reference to Muhammad's announcement shortly before his death at the
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views Ali as the rightful religious and temporal successor of Muhammad and views the predecessors of Ali as usurpers of his rights.
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in the afterlife remains popular among Sunnis. However, reverence for Ali in Sunni Islam has declined in recent times with the rise of
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Ali above other companions have also been reinterpreted by Sunni scholars to uphold the Sunni hierarchy. By contrast,
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in its early years and was likely the first male to accept the teachings of Muhammad. In
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Ali and his three predecessors are acknowledged in Sunni tradition as the
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Ali
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Sunni view of Ali
Shia view of Ali
Birthplace
First Fitna
Assassination
Timeline of Ali's life
Alids
Event of Ghadir Khumm
Nahj al-Balagha
Al-Ghadir
Zulfiqar
Imam Ali Mosque
Ghurar al-Hikam wa Durar al-Kalim
Military career of Ali
Ali as Caliph
The Fourteen Infallibles
Imam
The Twelve Imams
Ali in the Quran
Imam Ali Shrine
Hazrat Ali Mazar
Rashidun Caliph
Succession to Muhammad
Great Mosque of Kufa
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