Title: ‘Umdat al-taḥqīq fī bashā’ir ahl al-Ṣiddīq
Description: [A controversial treatise upholding the lawfulness of the succession to the Caliphate, of Abū Bakr and ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ; being a refutation of a Rāfiḍī work entitled al-Biḥār al-mughriqah, which was written in answer to a work by Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, entitled al-Ṣawāʿiq al-muḥriqah.].
Subjects: Shīʻah, Caliphs
People: Abū Bakr Caliph (-634), ʻUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Caliph (-644), Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī (approximately 1503-approximately 1566)