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The Investiture of Ali at Ghadir Khumm in the fourteenth-century Ilkhanid copy of Chronology of Ancient Nations, illustrated by Ibn al-Kutbi. As the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Ali ibn Abi Talib was likely the first male to profess Islam. [1] He significantly contributed to Muhammad's cause inside and outside the ...
Ali in the Quran collects the verses of the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, which are said to have been revealed about Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Ali played a pivotal role during the formative years of Islam and is recognized as the fourth Rashidun caliph (r.
Ali himself succeeded to the caliphate in 656 but his rule was immediately challenged by multiple pretenders and he was assassinated in 661. In Shia belief, Ali inherited Muhammad's political and religious authority, even before his ascension to the caliphate in 656. In Shia theology, Ali also inherited the esoteric knowledge of Muhammad.
The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ōrāre, "to speak" and properly refers to the priest or priestess uttering the prediction. In extended use, oracle may also refer to the site of the oracle, and the oracular utterances themselves, are called khrēsmoí (χρησμοί) in Greek.
On the other hand, Laura Veccia Vaglieri in the Encyclopaedia of Islam doubt that Ali really hoped to succeed the Prophet, because the Arabs traditionally chose their leader from among the bearded ones, and Ali was only a little over thirty years old at that time and he did not have the necessary credentials to succeed Muhammad according to ...
This is evident from the fact that Oracle's remaining performance obligations (RPO), which refers to the total value of a company's future contracts that it is yet to fulfill, jumped a solid 44% ...
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Muhammad's statement at the Ghadir Khumm, "He whose mawla I am, Ali is his mawla," is known as the hadith of the walaya in Shia Islam. [2] Delivered to a large crowd of pilgrims, [1] shortly after the Farewell Pilgrimage and shortly before his death in 632 CE, the attribution of this statement to Muhammad is rarely contested, even though its interpretation is a source of controversy.