Damascus after the Muslim Conquest: Text and Image in Early Islam, Nancy Khalek, pp. 156, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-973651-5, ... Biographies of the sahaba were essential for the assumption and confirmation of political and social power in the medieval Islamic world. Al-Khawlani's Tarikh Darayya is a prime example of a compiler invoking the memory of the sahaba ...
Mary and Jesus in Islam, Yasin T. Al-Jibouri, pp. 471, AuthorHouse, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4685-2322-5, ... Shi'ite Muslims differ from their Sunni brothers when it comes to these Sahaba: Sunni Muslims believe that all the Sahaba were great, as great as the stars in the heaven shining on earth, and whoever follows any of them, he is rightly guided ... Shi'is say that not all of those Sahaba were good folks, that many of them were interest seekers ...
