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Are the contents of the book Shawahid al-Tanzil by a Sunni scholar that has narrations about the virtues of Imam Ali and the Ahlul Bayt considered reliable?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Shawaahid Al-Tanzeel by al-Hasakaani شواهد التنزيل للحسكاني is well known book containing many Hadeeths fron Sunni sources in favor of Imam Ali (AS).

Wassalam.
When did the method of Salah get changed by the Sunnis and are there any narrations for it?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Main changes in Salaah were done during the rule of Omar ibn Al-Khattab. There are hundreds of narrations even in Sunni books about these changes initiated by Omar. You can see Al-Nass WAL-Ijtihad by Allama Sharafuddin and also Kitab Al-Waa'il which is a Sunni book by Abu 'Oroobah, stating who initiated what among Muslims. 
Wassalam.
The Imams had around them non-Imamis, deviants, and people who did Ghuluw. How do we know the narrations we have today are actually from the Imams themselves and through narrators who did not corrupt the narration?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

There is a full field of knowledge called E'lm Al-Rijaal which deals with every narrator and searching and assessing his authenticity. Deviat persons are known by our scholars of E'lm Al-Rijaal and their narrations are never accepted.

Famous  Shia books on E'lm Al-Rijaal are like Kitab Al-Rijaal  by Al-Najaashi (450 Hijri),

Rijaal Al-Kashshi (350 Hijri) ,

and  Al-Fahrist by Al-Shaikh Al-Tousi  (460 Hijri) , 

Ma'aalim Al-Ulama' by Ibn Sharashoob 588 hijri.

Khulasat Al Awwal by Al-Allama Al-Hilli  726 hujri.

Tanqeeh Al-Maqaal by Al-Mamaqani 1351 hujri.

and Mu'jam Rijaal Al-Hadeeth by Al-Khoei 1413 hijri.

We only accept narrations from authentic narrators who were always in the right path.

Wassalam.
If Kitab Al-Kafi narrates the sayings of the Prophet (s), why do all chains of narrations stop at an Imam and not state that the Imam heard it from his father who heard it from his father all the way to the Prophet (s)?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

It has been very clearly mentioned in many authentic narrations from our Infallible Imams e.g. Imam Ja'far Al-Sadiq (AS) that: My Hadeeth is the Hadeeth of my father, and it is the Hadeeth of my grand father, which is the Hadeeth of Imam Husain, which is the Hadeeth of Imam Hasan,  which is the Hadeeth of Ameerul Mo'mineen, which is the Hadeeth of the Prophet (SAWA) which is the order of Allah. 

(Kitab Al-Kaafi, V.1, P. 53.).

Wassalam.