“… and the Qur’an was distorted, and the house where revelation used to descend was burnt… and the face of the Lady of Virtue was slapped…”
Sayyid Ibn Tawas, in his work titled Zawa’id al-Fawa’id, citing Kitab al-Mukhtasar by Shaikh Hasan ibn Sulayman, a copy handwritten by Ali ibn Muzahir al-Wasiti, through a continuous chain of isnad that ends with Muhammed ibn al-`Ala’ al-Hamadani al-Wasiti. Then he cites it from Kitab al-Mukhtasar at the conclusion of which he says that he copied it from an edition handwritten by Muhammed ibn Ali ibn Tay. In it, it is stated that Ibn Abul-`Ala’ al-Hamadani and Yahya ibn Muhammed ibn Haweej disputed with each other regarding `Omer ibn al-Khattab, so they sought the arbitration of Ahmed ibn Ishaq al-Qummi, a friend of Imam al-Hasan al-`Askari (A.S.).
He narrated to them from what he had learned from Imam al-`Askari (A.S.) who cites his father (A.S.) saying that Huthayfah narrated a lengthy tradition about the Prophet (A.S.) wherein he (A.S.) informed Huthayfan ibn al-Yaman a number of events that would take place after his demise. Huthayfah, seeing how what he had heard came true, said, “… and the Qur’an was distorted, and the house where revelation used to descend was burnt… and the face of the Lady of Virtue was slapped…”[1]
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TRAGEDY OF AL-ZAHRA’ (A.S.). DOUBTS CAST AND REBUTTALS
By: Ayatullah `Allama Sayyid Ja’far Murtada al-`Amili
Translated from the Arabic By: Yasin T. al-Jibouri
Published By: Imam Hussain Foundation
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[1]Al-Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 95, pp. 351, 353-54 and Vol. 31, p. 126. Shaikh Hasan ibn Sulayman, Al-Muhtadir, pp. 44-55 (as referred to in a footnote in Bihar al-Anwar). Also in the same footnote, it is stated that al-Tabari had narrated it in Dala’il al-Imama in the Part relevant to the Commander of the Faithful (A) and is narrated by Shaikh Hashim ibn Muhammed (one of the sixth century A.H. scholars) in Misbah al-Anwar and by al-Jaza’iri in Al-Anwar al-Nu`maniyya through a different chain of isnad; so, you may refer to it.
