The various narrations scattered about in Shia books which can show that the early Shia believed in Fatimiyya, and shows a level of tawatur ijmali.
Tawatur ijmali is reached where the number of independent attributions of a single concept as found in different contexts and in different wordings is so great, that it cannot be said that each of the attributions of that concept is considered to be a lie.
Tawatur ijmali is described by Sheikh Akhund al Khurasani as follows:
“Tawātur ijmālī is the existence of a multitude of narrations, about various different subjects, that reach the level of tawātur in such a way that there is some shared and common dimension to them all. This common dimension among narrations that have different contents is called tawātur ijmālī”
Ref : Reflections on Mutawatir Ma’nawi
In other words, there are such a great number of narrations attributed to Ahlul Bayt pointing to the Fatimiyya—each being in different narrations with different contexts and each of them being totally unrelated to each other—that as a matter of probability, it is highly unlikely for all of the attributions of Fatimiyya to the Ahlul Bayt to be incorrect. If this is the case, then without a doubt, belief in the occurrence of Fatimiyya can be successfully attributed to the Imams of Ahlul Bayt.
in this section, we will mention various narrations from 25 shia books which mention the Fatimiyya in different contexts, with totally unrelated chains. Without a doubt, a Shia reader should have no trouble gaining satisfaction in the attribution of the belief in Fatimiyya to Ahlul Bayt (AS).
1. The book of Sulaym b. Qais al-Hilali (d.76H)
Most modern copies of Sulaym ibn. Qais al-HIlali consists of around 90 narrations, in which a bit below 60 are corroborated by other chains in other books.
1. “…Qunfuz the cursed, had hit Lady Fatimah (AS) with a whip when she came in
between Ali (AS) and the people and Umar had sent him saying: “If Fatimah comes
in between you and her husband, hit her.`` So Qunfuz LA, forced her to take refuge
behind the door and he pushed the door so her rib near the side got broken and she
had a miscarriage. So she was continuously ill until she attained martyrdom in this…”
2. The book of ‘Asim b. Hamid (2nd century Hijri)
1. “‘Asim Narrated from Abi Basir from Imam al Baqir (as): Zubayr was from us Ahl al Bayt AS until his son - Abdullah b. Al Zubayr - had grew. Zubayr shaved his head while saying “We do not give Bay’ah except to Ali”, and the Imam AS said: Umar took his sword and crushed it”
The book of ‘Asim b. Hamid is found within the 16 Usul, and his book that reached us is Mu’tabar, and based on this, the narration is reliable.48 This narration gives details of part of the incidents revolving around the oppression, as al-Zubayr shaving his head was not mentioned except in context of him refusing to give bay’ah to Abu Bakr, and al-Zubayr’s sword breaking was not mentioned except in context of him and Imam Ali AS being forcefully brought out from the House of Fatima AS to give bay’ah to Abu Bakr
3. Waqi'at Siffin (d.212H)
Nasr b. Muzahim is one the oldest shia historians that we have a surviving work from. He reports that, Amr b. Al Aas says to Muawiya: We both heard him (Ali) say "If he had 40 men." and he mentioned something, meaning if i had 40 men with me when the house was raided, meaning Fatima's house
4. Kitab al-Wassiyah (d.220H)
Ibn Tawoos (d.664 H) had the manuscript of Kitab al-Wassiyah of Shaikh ʿIsa b. al-Mustafad. Scholars like Al-Ghada'iri do mention the existence of his book.52 Within this manuscript it is reported from Imam Musa Al Kadham to The Prophet on his deathbed the following statement:
“He called (The Prophet) the Ansar and said, ... "Indeed the door of Fatema is My door, and Her house is My house. So whoever disgraces it has disgraced the Hijab of Allah." The narrator Isa then says, "Abu al-Hasan Imam Kadhim then cried for long and cut of rest of his speech and said, "By Allah (swt) the Hijab of Allah (swt) was disgraced, By Allah (swt) the Hijab of Allah (swt) was disgraced, By Allah (swt) the Hijab of Allah (swt) was disgraced, O My Mother..."
5. Kitāb al-Gharrat (d.283H)
Al-Majlsi records within his copy of the book of Ibarahim al-Thaqafi, the following narration:
“Ahmed ibn ‘Amr al-Bijli has told me that we have been told by Ahmed ibn Habib al-’Amiri who quotes Hamran ibn A’yan quoting Abu ‘Abdullah Ja’far ibn Muhammed S as saying, ‘By Allah! Ali (as) did not swear the oath of allegiance (to Abu Bakr) except after the smoke had entered his house.’'
Continued in part 2 ......
