it will start offtopic discussion again.
**24. **Famous Shia scholar Allamah Kashi narrates in his book from one of the Shia Imam Abu Abdullah [r.h]:
“May Allah curse Abdullah ibn Saba, he said that Hazrat Ali [r.a] is God. But Hazrat Ali [r.a] was a servant of Allah.”
لعن اللّه عبداللّه بن سبا انه ادعو الربوية فى امير المؤمنين عبدا طالباً
Rijaal-e-Kashi, page 100]
Qamoos al-Rijaal, vol 5 page 46]
**25. **Allamah Sharastani [r.h] writes:
“Abdullah ibn Saba…was the first person who said that Imamat of Hazrat Ali [r.a] is proven from nas.”
اصحاب عبداللّه بن سبا٠٠٠ وهو اول من اظهر القول بالنص بامامة على كرم اللّه وجهه
Al-Milal wa al-Nahal, vol 1 page 174]
26. Saad Bin Abdullah Al Ash’ari Alqummi said:
“Sabians are companions of Abdullah Ibn saba, …… Abdullah bin Saba’, was the first who slandered Abu Bakr [r.a], Omar [r.a], Othman [r.a] and the Companions and disowned them.”
Al-Maqalat wal-Firaq, 20]
**27. **Hazrat Shah Waliullah [r.h] has also written in details about ibn Saba in his book Izalat al-Khafa.
The “Jewish Encyclopedia” says:
ABDALLAH IBN SABA
By : Hartwig Hirschfeld
A Jew of Yemen, Arabia, of the seventh century, who settled in Medina and embraced Islam. Having adversely criticized Calif Othman’s administration, he was banished from the town. Thence he went to Egypt, where he founded an antiothmanian sect, to promote the interests of Ali. On account of his learning he obtained great influence there, and formulated the doctrine that, just as every prophet had an assistant who afterward succeeded him, Mohammed’s vizier was Ali, who had therefore been kept out of the califate by deceit. Othman had no legal claim whatever to the califate; and the general dissatisfaction with his government greatly contributed to the spread of Abdallah’s teachings. Tradition relates that when Ali had assumed power, Abdallah ascribed divine honors to him by addressing him with the words, “Thou art Thou!” Thereupon Ali banished him to Madain. After Ali’s assassination Abdallah is said to have taught that Ali was not dead but alive, and had never been killed; that a part of the Deity was hidden in him; and that after a certain time he would return to fill the earth with justice. Till then the divine character of Ali was to remain hidden in the imams, who temporarily filled his place. It is easy to see that the whole idea rests on that of the Messiah in combination with the legend of Elijah the prophet. The attribution of divine honors to Ali was probably but a later development, and was fostered by the circumstance that in the Koran Allah is often styled “Al-Ali” (The Most High).
Bibliography: Shatrastani al-Milal, pp. 132 et seq. (in Haarbrücken’s translation, i. 200-201);
Weil, Gesch. der Chalifen, i. 173-174, 209, 259.H. Hir.
Source: JewishEncyclopedia,
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/vi…d=189&letter=A