Hadith of warning Richard Burton writes about the banquet in his 1898 book, saying, "It won for [Muhammad] a proselyte worth a thousand sabers in the person of Ali, son of Abu Talib." Hadith of warning The Hadith of Warning or Yawm al-Inzar (), also known as Invitation of the close families of Muhammad (دعوة ذو العشیرة - Da‘wat dhul-‘Ashīrah) is an event that took place in the fourth year of Islam. Shias use this hadith to prove Ali ibn Abi Talib's claim as the rightful successor to Muhammad. Muhammad invited people to Islam in secret for three years before he started inviting
Hadith terminology terminology, it refers to a "hadith" not fulfilling all of the conditions necessary to be deemed "mutawatir". "Hadith ahad" consists of three sub-classifications also relating to the number of narrators in the chain or chains of narration: An "ʻaziz" () "hadith" is any "hadith" conveyed by two narrators at every point in its "isnād" (chain of narrators). A "gharib" () "hadith" is one conveyed by only one narrator. Al-Tirmidhi's understanding of a "gharib hadith", concurs to a certain extent with that of the other traditionists. According to him a "hadith" may be classified as "gharib" for one of the following