“You are the one who hit Fatima (A.S.) daughter of the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) and caused her to bleed and she miscarried, thus humiliating the Messenger of Allah (A.S.), disobeying his order and violating his sanctity since the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) had said to her, `O Fatima! You are the Head of all the women of Paradise.’
It is narrated from al-Sha`bi, Abi Mikhnaf, Yazid ibn Habib al-Misri the tradition of Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba (A.S.) arguing with `Amr ibn al-`as, al-Walid ibn `Uqbah, `Amr ibn `Othman and `Utbah ibn Aba Sufyan in the presence of Mu`awiyah, and it is quite a lengthy tradition. In it, the Imam (A.S.) says to al-Mugharah ibn Shu`bah, “You are the one who hit Fatima (A.S.) daughter of the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) and caused her to bleed and she miscarried, thus humiliating the Messenger of Allah (A.S.), disobeying his order and violating his sanctity since the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) had said to her, `O Fatima! You are the Head of all the women of Paradise.’”[1]
The great `allama and mentor Shaikh al-Tibirisi, in his Introduction to his book Al-Ihtijaj, has said, “Most of what we cite of news we quote it according to its own isnad either because there is a consensus in its regard, or it agrees with what other thinkers have pointed out, or it is famous in biography books of those who disagree as well as those who agree with us except what I have cited of the speech of the father of Muhammed, namely (Imam) al-Hasan al-`Askari (A.S.), for nothing is more famous than it, although it contains similarly to what we have already introduced. For this reason, I mentioned its isnad at the beginning of each news of the same…”[2]
The researching `allama and mentor al-Tehrani has said the following in Al-Thara`a, “This statement of his is quite clear in that everything he has cited in this regard is famous as agreed upon by both those who disagree as well as who agree with us. It is one of the highly regarded books upon which scholars such as `allama al-Majlisi and the traditionist al-Hurr al-`amili and their likes depend.”[3]
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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-Tibrisi, Al-Ihtijaj, Vol. 1, p. 414. Al-Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 43, p. 197. Mir’at al-`Uqal, Vol. 5, p. 321. Diya’ al-`alaman (manuscript), Vol. 2, p. 64.
[2]Al-Tabrisi, Al-Ihtijaj, Vol. 1, p. 4.
[3]Al-Thara`a, Vol. 1, p. 282.
