Re: The issue of Fadak
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I am not sure if Hazrat Imam Ali could be compared to even the companions of the stature of Talha or Zubayr.
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thats a whole another debate irrelevent to this discussion
btw plz dont bring up zubair radiallahanu whenever talha is mentioned u guys think they were like hecke and jeckel thats not the case they both had very different backgrounds and interests
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Umar b Khattab asked Hazrat for help in many trivial matters and always found him forthcoming.
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not so trivial some of them were very important matters
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Uthman b Affan found help from Hazrat Ali when nobody would help him in Madina.
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uthman had his own group of supporters in medina mostly quraishi but they could not stand upto the revolutionaries from Kufa and Egypt thats why uthmanid propoganda always lament uthman as the lonely martyr to hide the paucity of support amongst the medinians
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nfact according to Tarikh Tabari, Hazrat Ali even sent Hazrat Imam Hasan and Hazrat Imam Hussain among other Banu Hashim to the defence of Uthman during the time of the final seige.
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neither hasan nor hussain ever bore arms to defend uthman at best they offered moral support