Lesson one hundred nineteen :Successors of Prophet

The Prophet( S. A. )said:

لا يَزَالُ هذَا الدِّينُ عَزِيزا مَنِيعا إِلَى إثْنى عَشَرَ كُلُّهُمْ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ‌

Translation

This religion will be always honorable and protected from the enemies until twelve persons shall lead it, all of whom belong to Ghoreish..

Brief description

Clear and explicit traditions are narrated in respect to twelve successors of Prophet( S. A. )in the most creditable books of the Sunnites including Sahih Bokhari', Sahih Moslem'. Sahih Termazi', Sahih Abou Dawood', Masoud Ahmad' and other numerous books, and total number of these traditions narrated by Shiites and Sunnites are estimated to be 172 traditions! And it is interesting that above traditions are not compatible with none of those leading Moslems or governed over them after Prophet) S. A. (save Shiite Twelve Imams because neither first four Caliphs, not Umayyid or Abbasid caliphs are the sense of this tradition.

So Sunnite scholars have gotten into difficulty in interpretation of this valid tradition but its interpretation is completely clear in the Shiism of Prophet's household.