Re: In defence of Hz Umar (ra) (In response to Pagluu’s Post)
The tareekhs are not sunni or shia, but the narrators who form the chain are definitely shia or sunni.
And the methodology for documenting tareekh is not as rigid as the methodology of documenting hadith. And this is because tareekh is not meant for providing you the two most important aspects of the Deen...Aqeedah and Fiqh.
Hence the historians were lenient, and were more concerned with documenting narrations rather than differentiating between what was authentic and what wasn't.