Re: Sunni Perspective on Shia Traditions
This is the bit the boy was feeding to me, that there is a spiritual connection that the Imam has with Allah, that Allah chose that person to be an Imam, or the spiritual leader for all the ummah. But like I said, even Imam Jaffar Sadiq was not a Pope equivalent of his time. There were Imam Hanifa and Imam Malik who went on to find their own schools of thought, who were the very students of Imam Jaffar Sadiq. I would think if Imam Jaffar Sadiq, for example, had an immaculate imammat, then Abu Hanifa and Abu Malik wouldn’t have bothered to come up with any independent ideas.