The father of the author of `Abaqat al-Anwar, says the following in his book titled Tashyeed al-Mata`in wherein he recorded scores of pages containing many texts the translation of which is as follows:
`Omer threatened to burn Fatima (A.S.), gathering firewood around her house as is narrated by trustworthy Sunni narrators and the most prominent of their reliable authorities and the greatest of their traditionists from the early generations and from the latter Ones (A.S.) such as al-Tabari, al-Waqidi, `Othman ibn Aba Shaybah, Ibn `Abd Rabbih, Ibn Jirayah, the compiler of Al-Mahasin and Anfas al-Jawahir, Ibn `Abd al-Birr ibn Aba Shaybah, al-Balathiri, Ibn `Abd al-Birr (author of Al-Ista`ab), Abu Bakr al-Jawahiri, author of the book titled Al-Saqifa, the judge Jamal ad-Din Wasil, Abul-Fida’ Isma`al ibn Ali (A.S.) ibn Mahmad (author of the book titled Al-Mukhtasar), Ibn Qutaybah, Ibrahim ibn `Abdullah al-Yamani al-Shafi`i (author of the book titled Al-Iktifa’), al-Sayyati (author of the book titled Jam` al-Jawami`, Mulla Ali al-Muttaqi (author of Kanz al-`Ummal) and Shah Wali-Allah al-Dahlawi..., etc.[1] Then he cited what these scholars have written. He also said that the burning of the house of al-Zahra’ (A.S.) has been narrated by many and is supported by authentic proofs recorded in Sunni books.
[1]Tashyeed al-Mata`in, Vol. 1, pp. 433-34 and scores before and after these pages all full of proofs and quotations. This book was written as a rebuttal to the book titled Al-Tuhfa al-Ithna `Ashariyya by al-Dahlawi.
