my apologies for that and thnx for pointing tht out. I gt confused by the names. Apologies again.
And u r right abt the sahabas there. Since sunni mudhahibs have their root going back to the ashaabs, they have done much work on the rijal relatated to the shaykhayn etc. There is a lot of glorification and denting painting done in history in order to make the biggest bidat of Islam- khilafat- seem legal and part of Islam.
The general systematic trend is to deglorify the prophet and his family and somehow try to glorifying the other non deservant lot. (This may be a lil off-topic but on the arab satellite there is a program done by a christian father called Zakaria Botrous who totally blasts islam and persistently insults the prophet by quoting these traditions made by the enemies of Islam. These r the same traditions that were manaufactured to damage the status of the Prophet and his family. Take a look here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mpsWnbApBNw&feature=related)