Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī · Invalidity of Kaisaniyya creed
وهذا طعن من يقول إن الإجماع لا يمكن معرفته ولا التوصل إليه، والكلام في ذلك لا يختص هذه المسألة فلا وجه لايراده هنا. ثم إنا نعلم أن الأنصار طلبت الامرة ودفعهم المهاجرون عنها ثم رجعت الانصار إلى قول المهاجرين على قول المخالف، فلو أن قائلا قال:يجوز عقد الامامة لمن كان من الانصار لان الخلاف سبق فيه، ولعل في أطراف الارض من يقول به، فما كان يكون جوابهم فيه (فأي) شيء قالوه فهو جوابنا بعينه فلا نطول بذكره.
This is the argument of a person who says that consensus cannot be discerned and as this question is not exclusive to our subject, there is no reason we should go into its details here. We know that the Ansar demanded caliphate and the Muhajireen turned them away and then Ansar submitted to the idea of the Muhajireen, according to the opponent. If someone should argue that Caliphate is possible for the Ansar, for a disagreement has occurred on this matter, and perchance there is someone in the peripheries of the earth who believes in this, whatever the opponent says in response to him, is our same answer here.
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