Re: What does fighting in the cause of Allah mean?
OH yeah ! Quote the complete statement not partial. According to Imam Ibn Hajar Asqalani, the one who deems Imam Ibn Jarir Tabari as Shia is doing nothing but making a lie against him*.*
The bottom line is that according to all prominent ulema of ahle sunnah mentioned above such as Dahabi, Ibn Hajar Adqalani, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Khalkan, Daudii , Ibn Tamiyah etc, Ibn Jareer Tabari (the author of Tarikh Tabari) was not a Shia rather they considered him as their "Imam" and the one who think that he is more knowledgeable than these prominent ulema and all of them were wrong about a certain person that would make the Tons of Rijal works put frward by these very ulema as null and void!