Among the Wahabi satellite networks, the most active against Shia,
is the most popular of them in the world having broadcasting center in London and named as Al-Mustaqila,
which has in recent years, unleashed widespread propaganda against Shia.
This network, before the arrival of ‘Days of Fatima’ in 1386
solar year, for a long time and through widespread propaganda in form of subtitles,
day and night, in all their programs, laid great emphasis on this topic. They
announced: This year we shall invite a group of religious experts to once and for
all prove false the claim of Shia regarding the martyrdom of Fatima, daughter
of the Messenger of Allah (s). These claims would be refuted and we will prove
that Shia do not even have a single authentic report to prove their stance. In this
way we will put an end to the annual Azadari ceremonies during ‘Days of Fatima’.
Some days before announcing its program, this network announced: If
from the Shia one can represent them to defend the claim of Shia about the
martyrdom of Lady Fatima (s), we welcome him to take part in these programs and
arrange debates.
Senior Shia personalities were informed of this, because this
network was instigating the religious sentiments of Shia and Sunni and creating
differences in Muslim society. Initially they did not pay attention and overlooked
the poisonous publicity of this network; but when this network brought a
scholar-looking man disguised as a Shia to make false attributions to Shia, it
was from this point that some supreme jurists (Maraja Taqlid) and senior
personalities of religious seminaries of Qom, including His Eminence, Ayatullah
Uzma Makarim Shirazi, decided to depute Ayatullah Dr, Husaini Qazwini to this
network and inform its viewers about the true beliefs of Shia and also participate
in this debate to neutralize the recent conspiracy of Wahabis in creating
controversy between Shia and Sunni and present the traditional reports proving
the martyrdom of Lady Fatima Zahra (s) in that program before all the Muslims
of the world.
The objections mentioned in that programs with perfect impudence
and audacity, regarding the martyrdom of Lady Zahra (s), were in fact not
objections, but audacity and insult to the holy being of the Holy Prophet (s).
It was nonsensical talk, which came from a Wahabi participant in this debate,
named Abu Shawarib from Egypt :
This Mohsin, which Shia say that the Messenger of Allah (s) named
as Mohsin and who was martyred during the attack on the house of Fatima . How the Prophet came to know about the birth of
this child years before the event and he named him Mohsin? Did anyone inform
him about it or that the Prophet was having facility of sonography that he saw
this child in the womb and also named him as Mohsin.
Below we present some replies of our respected teacher Ayatullah
Dr, Husaini Qazwini, which were set forth in this program:
In reply to such insulting statements of Wahabis, which deny the
existence of His Eminence, Mohsin and his martyrdom, some views present in
books accepted as authentic by Wahabis are mentioned below:[1]
1- Hafiz Jamaluddin Mizzi (d. 742 A.H.) has said:
Mohsin was still born.[2]
2- Masudi Shafei says in Athbatul Wasiyya:
They crushed the chief of the ladies of the world between the
door and the wall till Mohsin was miscarried.[3]
3- Dhahabi says in the life sketch of Abi Daram:
Ibne Abi Daram was a person, who throughout his life lived a
moderate life, but in the last days of his life, the best thing, which is read
about him are the reports of defects. He was present and the following report
was read to him: Umar kicked at the side of Fatima
and caused miscarriage of Mohsin.[4]
4- Nazzam says:
On the day of allegiance, Umar hit at the belly of Fatima , which caused the miscarriage of Mohsin.[5]
5- And also the report of Juwaini, which we mentioned before:
When I see Fatima (s), I am
reminded of the tragedies that are to befall her after my passing away. As if I
can see with my own eyes, that disrespect has entered her house, her sanctity
is destroyed, her right has been usurped, she is deprived of her inheritance,
her side is broken and her unborn son is killed in the womb.[6]
6- In the same way, Ibne Qutaibah has mentioned this subject, but
dishonest hands in recent years have deleted it. Please pay attention to this
statement of Ibne Qutaibah, which is mentioned in Shia and Sunni books:
After the Holy Prophet (s), Fatima
(s) had a miscarriage in which she lost a male child, whom His Eminence had
named as Mohsin.
But none of the other scholars have narrated this matter.
Kifayatul Talib of Ganji Shafei, Pg. 411, Haidariya, Najaf
Ashraf, in the Chapter of the number of his children.
Ibne Shahr Ashob has mentioned this issue in his Manaqib and
said:
Among the sons of Fatima (s) are Hasan, Husain and Mohsin, who
was stillborn and it is mentioned in the book of Marifal Qutaibi that
Mohsin was still born as a result of the injury caused by Qunfadh Adawi to
Fatima.[7]
But now we see that the book of Ibne Qutaibah has been distorted
and in its place they have instead mentioned the following report:
As for Mohsin bin Ali, he died during his childhood.[8]
7- Al-Malati Shafei (d. 377 A.H.) in the book of Al-Tanbih wa
Radd, Pg. 25 and 26.
8- Al-Aqqad and others in the book of Fatima Zahra (s) and the
Fatimids, Pg. 68.
9- Al-Umari Nisaba (d. 490 A.H.) in the books of Al-Majdi and
Ansabut Talibiyyin, Pg. 19
10- Ibne Abil Hadid (d. 656 A.H.) in Sharh Nahjul Balagha,
Vol. 2, Pg. 60.
11- Matalibus So-ool fee Manaqib Aale Rasool (s), Chapter
11 on the children of Fatima (s), Pg. 62 and his book of Kashful Ghumma,
Vol. 1, Pg. 441.
12- Al-Hasani Faasi Makki (d. 832 A.H.) has said:
And no child was born after Mohsin as Mohsin was stillborn.[9]
13- Ibrahim Tarbulusi Hanafi (d. 841 A.H.) has said in the book
of Shajarah:
Mohsin, the son of Fatima , was
stillborn and some have said that he died in his childhood, but the fact is
that he was stillborn.[10]
14- Safoori Shafei (d. 894 A.H.) has said:
15- Imam Jamaluddin Yusuf Muqaddasi (d. 909 A.H.) has said:
Regarding Mohsin, they have said that he was stillborn and
according to another view, it is also said that he died in childhood, but the
fact is that Fatima lost him in miscarriage.[12]
16- Muhammad Sabban (d. 1206 A.H.) has said:
…and as for Mohsin, he was stillborn.[13]
17- Shaykh Hasan Adawi Hamzawi (13th century) has
said:
…and as for Mohsin, he was stillborn.[14]
CONTINUED IN PART 2
[1] Sources
and references in another part of this same book, under the topic of Objection:
19, which was related to the marriage of Umar and Umme Kulthum.
[2] Tahdhibul
Kamaal, Vol. 20, Pg. 479
[3] Asbatul
Wasiyya, Masudi, Pg. 143
[4] Seer
Aalamun Nubla, Vol. 15, Pg. 578, Shamsuddin Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Uthman
bin Qaimaz Dhahabi, Abu Abdullah, (d. 748), Mausisatur Risala, Beirut, 1413,
Ninth edition, Edited: Shuaib Arnaut, Muhammad Naeem Arqasusi.
Mizanul Etedal,
Biography no. 551, Ahmad bin Muhammad Sari bin Yahya bin Abi Daram
al-Muhaddith, Vol. 1, Pg. 283; Lisanul Mizan, Vol. 1, Pg. 268, Biography
no. 824, Ahmad bin Muhammad.
[5] Al-Wafi
bil Wafiyat, Vol. 5, Pg. 347, – Al-Milal wan Nihal, Shahristani,
Vol. 1, Pg. 57, Darul Marifa, Beirut .
[6] Faraidus
Simtain, Vol. 2, Pg. 34-35.
[7] Manaqib
Aale Abi Talib, Vol. 3, Pg. 358
[8] Al-Marif,
Ibne Qutaibah, Pg. 211
[9] Al-Iqdul
Thameen fee Akhbaral baladul Ameen, Vol. 6, Pg. 293
[10] Masaatuz
Zahra, Vol. 2, Pg. 131 – An Awlad Imam Ali, Pg. 46
[11] Nuzhatul
Majalis, Vol. 2, Pg. 194, Darul Jeel, Pg 579
[12] Ash-Shajarah
Nabawiyyah fee Nasab Khairul Bariyya, Pg. 60, Damascus .
[13] Isafur
Raghibeen on the margins of Nurul Absar, Pg. 93
[14] Mashariqul
Anwaar fee Fauz Ahlal Etebar, Pg. 133
