‘Umdat al-taḥqīq fī bashā’ir ahl al-Ṣiddīq

Description:

[A controversial treatise upholding the lawfulness of the succession to the Caliphate, of Abū Bakr and ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ; being a refutation of a Rāfiḍī work entitled al-Biḥār al-mughriqah, which was written in answer to a work by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, entitled al-Ṣawāʿiq al-muḥriqah.].

subjects: Shīʻah,  Caliphs

People: Abū Bakr Caliph (-634),  ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Caliph (-644),  Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (approximately 1503-approximately 1566)