[QUOTE] Any believer who enjoyed the company of the Prophet is a Sahabi.
so any believer who meet the prophet is a sahabi according to 12ers ? thanks all I needed to know
now can u give me a source where a 12er rijal scholar has specifically mentioned that
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My fathers' library has various books on Sahabas written by Shia authors and the number exceeds 50. So i am unaware of the "all-but3gone-apostate" theory
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can you name a few ?
I am wellaware of rijal books by 12er scholars but they have concentrated mostly on disciples of later imams i.e after imam baqir and their views on sahaba vary widely.
infact the tradtion i pointed to i found in kashshi's rijal.