there are many innovations in the Jaffari school. Maybe someone can help me with the references but I have heard we are discouraged from public mourning. However, the Jaffari followers are always wailing and beating themselves in public.... I have even seen pictures of them beating themselves until they are covered in their own blood.
In al-Bukhari and Muslim: "The dead are tortured by the wailing of the living over them." Mutawatir by al-Suyuti's criterion, as it is narrated from the Prophet 
by `Umar, Ibn `Umar, Hafsa, Anas, `Imran ibn Husayn, Abu Musa, Abu Bakr, Abu Hurayra, Samura, al-Mughira ibn Shu`ba, and Suhayb as in al-Kattani's Nazm al-Mutanathir (#106).In the Sahihayn and the Sunan also, wailing (al-niyaha) is counted among the characteristics of Jahiliyya.
I also know that Khomeine wrote a book and said in it that the 12 Imams: Khomeini, in his book Al-Hukoomatul-lslamiwah (the Islamic government), claims that the Twelve Imams are infallible, and he raises them to a level above the heavenly angels and the commissioned pro- phets of Allah; he stresses:
The Twelve Imams, the `Itra, and the Companions - Allah be well-pleased with them all - put together are below the level of a single Prophet - upon our Prophet and upon them blessings and peace. This tenet is in al-`Aqida al-Tahawiyya: 98. We do not prefer any of the saintly men among the Community over any of the Prophets but rather we say that any one of the Prophets is better than all the awliya' put together.
Also, Ahl al-Sunna concur that the generality of the Prophets are above the generality of the angels in level. See on this point my post "Best of Creation
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