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WalAlaikum Salam,

Why is your grandmother reading the book of a Liar and ignorant person? The OP sister comes from a mixed Sunni-Shia Iraqi background.

Concerning the issue of the Ahadith, this shows how near-sigthted the Twelvers are with respect to matters. Even if we concede that there are not many Ahadith from 'Ali (Radhia Allahu Anhu) in our books [an obvious lie], anyone wading into matters of Qur'anic recitations, or Fiqh, or Tassawuf, will know the preeminent position of 'Ali (Radhia Allahu Anhu) in these fields, and that there was never a pushing aside of any Muslim on any matter of Islam, as divulging Islamic knowledge that one has and is sure about is obligatory (unlike in Twelver Shiaism where it may be hidden), as is the responsibility of the one who hears it to accept it as such (again unlike Twelver Shiaism, where the narratives of the Companions as a whole are rejected, leaving us basically with no eyewitness accounts about anything coming from the Prophet (S.A.W.)).

Of course, the Twelvers, in their bigotry, will simply tell us that since we have accepted this now we should accept all the Imams as per their categorization. But from this we only see a desperate attempt at taunting us, in such a way that they insult us when they feel that we do not follow 'Ali (R.A.A.), as well as insulting us when they feel that we do follow 'Ali (R.A.A.).