Re: Nawab Hasan Siddiq Khan
^ Indeed and more specifically for ALi [as] many times imams stood up to defend him when he was attacked by nasibis ...e.g Imam nasai writing the book Khasais amir ul mumineen ali b abitalib
similarly early proto-shia works have a surprisingly good opinion of the shaykain i.e umar[ra] and abu bakr[ra] from the snippets which are avalible to me from tarikh yaqubi and waqat siffin it seems that both these caliphs were generally held in high regard by members of Ali'[as] camp
later esp. when the Ghali sects amongst shias entered the mainstream , the attitude against sahaba in general and esp. shaykhain became very belligerent.