{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_abr01_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_abr01_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_abr01_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/abr01.htm","summary":"This is a theological treatise from within the Shia Islamic tradition, functioning as scriptural exegesis focused on the doctrine of the infallibility (*\u02bfi\u1e63ma*) of prophets and their divinely appointed successors (imams/viceroys). Its central argument draws on Quran 2:124 \u2014 God's declaration to Abraham that \"My covenant includeth not wrong-doers\" \u2014 to assert that divine leadership requires not merely personal purity but complete ancestral purity extending back to Adam: no prophet, imam, or their forebears can ever have been a polytheist or sinner, even momentarily. The work's most distinctive claim is its extension of this infallibility requirement to the entire patrilineal chain, making genealogical purity a theological necessity rather than a biographical accident. It marshals specifically Shia authoritative sources \u2014 the Imams Al-Sadiq and Al-Hadi, the ritual texts *Ziyarat Al-Jami'ah* and *Ziyarat Warith*, Al-Sahifah Al-Sajjadiyyah, and Nahj Al-Balaghah \u2014 as corroborating evidence. The text also addresses a potential scriptural problem: the Quran depicts Abraham's father \"Azar\" as an idolater, which the author resolves by arguing Azar was Abraham's uncle rather than biological father (whose name was Terah), preserving the purity-of-lineage thesis. A parenthetical note explicitly frames the stakes in Sunni-Shia terms: Shia belief in God-appointed viceroys versus Sunni reliance on communal election, with the author treating the former as the only doctrinally coherent position.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Abraham: The Infallibility of God's Viceroys","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":1171}