Muslim brothers and sisters keen to know more about history please visit this site for indepth information on the event of Ghadeer.
Also you will be able to see the list of over 140 Books by Sunni scholars (both published editions and unpublished manuscripts)narrating the event at Ghadeer. For each author, you can choose to see information regarding his reliability, and also the chains of narration in which he appears as a transmitter of the Ghadir Khumm incident. http://al-islam1.org/ghadir/books.htm
Hi Saradrasif, Thats a reallly interesting link. I had been looking for some infromation or a book on ghadeer but this site is incredible. Thanx very much for putting it up.
What year was the speech in ghadeer given?
How many people were there?
Were Hazrat Abu bakr (r.a), Hazrat Umar (r.a), and Hazrat Usman (r.a) present when Prophet (s.w) appointed Hazrat Ali (r.a) as his successor/leader/Imam??
from the first generation - 110 Companions (sahabah) of the Prophet [s]
from the second generation - 84 Successors (tabi’un) who came after the Companions
from the third generation onwards - 360 Scholars ('ulama) of the Islamic world, from the first to the fourteenth century AH (seventh to twentieth century CE)
(those not explicitly listed by 'Allamah al-'Amini in Al-Ghadir)
from over 200 Other Scholars of the Islamic world, from the first to the fourteenth century AH (seventh to twentieth century CE)
Please note that these statistics only include transmitters appearing in narrations recorded by Sunni scholars!
Strength of the Ghadir Khumm narration
The Ghadir Khumm narration is certainly mutawatir based on the statistics and definitions given below. In addition, several of its individual chains of narration are of the highest category of sahih and many more have been considered hasan. Click on the icon below to see some of these statements by notable scholars.
A momentous event took place at a place called Ghadir Khumm on the way back from the Last Pilgrimage (hajj) of the Prophet Muhammad [s]. This site attempts to capture the details of what happened there, the sources that record it, the people who narrated it from the time of the Companions of the Prophet [s] to recent times, and the fate of those who knowingly denied it.
**Purpose**
The Ghadir Khumm site is the result of a project that has been going for over a year, and is still continuing. It attempts to capture all the detail associated with this historic incident of the designation of Imam 'Ali [a] by the Prophet [s] as his immediate successor - and to make it easily available to world. All the sources of this incident in books of Qur’anic commentary (tafsir), tradition (hadith), history (ta’rikh), and other academic books from scholars of Islam will be captured. As much as possible, each narrator - from the time of the Prophet [s] and his Companions down to our recent times - would be identified and comments about his/her biography and reliability would be made available. Most of this material would be in Arabic, and we hope to get the essential parts translated into English with your help.