25. Ibn Aba Jumhar has said, “... and how she wa squeezed by the door till she miscarried her fetus.” He also said, “As regarding the incident of the burning, the beating, and the miscarriage of the fetus, some of it is narrated from you..., etc.”26
26. Al-Karki, the researcher, has said the following protesting against them, “... And how he gathered firewood at the door, and how he caused Fatima (A.S.) to miscarry Muhassan...”27
27. Al-Tasatturi, the judge, has stated some proofs about the miscarriage, so refer to what he has said.28
28. Al-Husaini has said, “... So they rushed towards the door, pushing it in her direction, and she was pregnant, causing her to miscarry a son whom the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) had named Muhassan.”29
29. Al-Mas`adi has said, “... And they pressed the door against the Head of the Women of the World till she miscarried Muhassan.”30
30. Al-Nizam is quoted as having said, “`Omer hit the stomach of Fatima (A.S.) on the day of the swearing of allegiance [to Abu Bakr] till she miscarried the fetus, al-Muhassan, from her womb.”31
31. Ibn Abul-Hadid, the Mu`tazilite scholar, has transmitted the Shi`as saying that `Omer pressured her between the door and the wall, so Fatima (A.S.) called out, “O Father! O Messenger of Allah (A.S.)!,” causing her to miscarry.”32
32. Al-Nu`man, the judge, has said, “... So they beat her, hence her miscarriage.”33
33. Mughamis al-Hilli has said:
Having miscarried because of a blow she received,
She passed away as her property remained confiscated.34
34. Shaikh al-Hurr al-`amili has composed the following lines:
Five are her sons: Husain, Hasan, Zainab and Umm Kulthum
And Muhassan, miscarried when `Omer opened the door as known.
He goes on to say the following about the cause of her death:
She soon miscarried her fetus and remained
Till death mourning him, moaning.35
35. Al-Isfahani, the researcher, has said:
In the fetus of glory there is something that
Causes the insides to bleed;
Can they really hide what is already known?
The door, the wall and the blood testify
As witnesses from which nothing can hide:
The oppressor committed against her fetus a crime
So the mountains, from her anxiety, are shaken.36
36. In a narrative transmitted about the Prophet (A.S.), it is recorded that “Her rib was broken, and she miscarried her fetus,” till he comes to say, “Lodged forever in Your Fire the one who hit her side till she miscarried her son.”37
37. In her Ziyarat, it is stated: “... the one whose son was killed.”38
38. Al-Kaf`ami has said that the cause of her death (A.S.) was her being beaten and subsequent miscarriage.39
39. SALIM ibn Qais has said, “... He shoved her, breaking her rib, so she miscarried her fetus.”40
40. Al-Kanji has added the following to what Shaikh al-Mufid has stated: “He added to what the majority have reported saying that Fatima (A.S.) miscarried a male after the demise of the Prophet (A.S.) whom the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) had named Muhassan.”41
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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
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27Al-Tasatturi, Ihqaq al-Haqq, Vol. 2, p. 374.
30Al-Shahristani, Al-Milal wal Nihal, Vol. 1, p. 57. `Awalim al-`Ulam, Vol. 11, p. 416. Al-Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 28, pp. 271, 281. Bahj al-Sibagha, Vol. 5, p. 15. Al-Wafi bil Wafiyyat, Vol. 6, p. 17. Bayt al-Ahzan, p. 124.
31Ibn Abul-Hadid, Sharh Nahjul Balagha, Vol. 2, p. 60.
33Al-Turayhi, Al-Muntakhab, p. 293.
34Urjaza fa Tawarakh al-Nabiy wa al-’A’imma (A) (manuscript), pp. 13, 14. A photocopy of this book is available at the Library of the Center for Islamic Studies in Beirut, Lebanon. Refer to A`lam al-Nisa’, Vol. 2, pp. 316, 317.
36Fara’id al-Simtayn, Vol. 2, pp. 34, 35. Shaikh al-Saduq, Al-Amali, pp. 99-101. Ithbat al-Hudat, Vol. 1, pp. 280-81. Al-Daylami, Irshad al-Qulab, p. 295. Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 28, pp. 37-39 and Vol. 43, pp. 172-73. Al-`Awalim, Vol. 11, pp. 391-92. Jala’ al-`Uyan, Vol. 1, pp. 186-88. Bisharat al-Mustafa, pp. 197-200. Ibn Shathan, Al-Fada’il, pp. 8-11 edited by al-Armawi. Ghayat al-Maram, p. 48. Al-Muhtadir, pp. 199-200.
38Al-Kaf`ami, Misbah, p. 522.
39Salam ibn Qais’s book, pp. 590-97. Al-Tibrisi, Al-Ihtijaj, Vol. 1, pp. 210-16. Jala’ al-`Uyan, Vol. 1. Refer also to Mir’at al-`Uqal, Vol. 5, pp. 319-20, Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 28, pp. 268, 270 and Vol. 43, pp. 197-200, Al-`Awalim, Vol. 11, pp. 400, 404 and Diya’ al-alaman, Vol. 2, pp. 63, 64.
