Justice Ameer Ali was not a Shia but Mutazila…so it happens that anyone who mentions any of the wrongdoings of the exclusive club of certain personalities is automatically declared a Shia just like maulana maudui was…
Anyway, I am only as familiar with these ideas as they appeared in Daily Dawn a few years back…I would like to see references from classic books of history so we can see what the other scholars have said about it…otherwise there is a new book out in the market on Islamic history every day…