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How can Shia claim to have acquired knowledge from Imams if there are many fabricated hadiths in the chain of narration between Imams and the authors of Usul-e-Arba'a? Or are all these chains of narration considered authentic?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Same question should be put for Sunni books of Hadeeth. Thousands of narration were been fabricated by Sunni narrators for different reasons, so how Sunni Ulama identify the authentic? Our Shia scholars do thorough research on every narration and all its narrators. We don't accept but the narration which is according to Quran and authentic Hadeeth and which has been narrated by authentic narrators one after another. Our main books of Hadeeth have much more authentic Hadeeths that what our Sunni brothers have in their books of Hadeeth.

Wassalam.
The Quran contains evidence for the status and purity of the Prophets. Where does it talk about the status and purity of the Shia Imams?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Allah (SWT) Has ordered us in Quran : O you who believe , Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and your divine leaders. Sura 4, verse 59.

'This verse is very clear that it is obligatory to obey Allah absolutely and always, and to obey the Messenger absolutely and always and the divine leaders absolutely and always. This means that all their orders are according to Allah and the Messenger Hesse it is obligatory to obey them as we are ordered to obey Allah and the Messenger. This means that these divine leaders are fully pure and never commit any sin otherwise if they possibly commit any sin then Allah will never Order us to obey a person who might commit a sin as such order can lead to commit a sin which is impossible.

'Sura 33, verse 33 is also clear that Ahlul Bayt are fully purified from any sin or error.

'With out the fact of the infallibility of Ahlul Bayt (Aas) it will be possible to follow any sinful act of the leaders. This is impossible to order Muslims to obey a sinner. Allah says in Quran: : My promised authority will never reach to sinners. Sura Baqara, verse 124, which is very clear that divine leaders can never be sinners.

Wassalam.
What were the Zodiac signs of our Imams and the Prophet (SAWW)? Are there any narrations that inform us of this matter?
Amina Inloes

I am not aware of any narrations on this matter, although it is something you could deduce through historical records and calendrical calculations (and others have done this in the past - you can search online for the results).

However, there is a narration between Imam al-Sadiq (A) and an astrologer in which Imam al-Sadiq (A) associates Imam 'Ali and the awsiya' with Saturn. (This is not a zodiacal sign, obviously, but is thematically related.) You can read it here (part 12, number 69): https://www.al-islam.org/al-khisal-numeric-classification-traditions-cha...
How can someone respond to Sunni Muslims who question why Shia Muslims refer to their Imams as AS instead of RA, and claim that AS is reserved only for the Prophets, and therefore, it is incorrect to use it for the Imams?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

All Muslims used to refer to Imam Ali and Fatima Al-Zahra and Imam Hasan and Imam Husain as AS. You can ask your friend to read Bukhari book where he can find  him referring to Ali as AS عليه السلام. Till today, there are big Sunni scholars refer to Ahlul Bayt as AS.

‘We are the real followers of Quran and the Prophet and find in Quran Salaam on true believers and no one doubts that Ahlul Bayt (AS) are the best believers.

Wassalam.