6. Tarikh al-Ya’qubi (d.284H)
- “Khālid b.
Saʿīd was away, and when he returned he came to ʿAlī and said, “Come and I
will swear allegiance to you; for, by God, no one among the people is
worthier to take Muḥammad’s place than you.” A group gathered round ʿAlī
b. Abī Ṭālib, calling on him to accept the oath of allegiance to him, but
he said o them, “Go to this man with shaved heads.”791 However, only three
people went to him. When Abū Bakr and ʿUmar learned that a group of
Emigrants and Helpers had gathered with ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib in the house of
Fāṭima, daughter of the Messenger of God, they came with a group to attack
the courtyard. ʿAlī came out with a sword, and ʿUmar met him. ʿUmar
wrestled with him, threw him to the ground, and broke his sword, and they
entered the courtyard. Then Fāṭima came out saying, “By God, you will get
out or I will uncover my hair and cry out to God for help!” So they left,
and those who were in the house came out. The people waited a few days;
then they began one by one [to swear allegiance].”[1]
7. Kitab Fadhl al-Du’a of Sa’d b.
Abdullah (d.300H)
Ibn Tawoos through an authenticate
transmission of the book of Sa’ad Ibn Abdallah (d.300) Kitab Fadhal Al Dua wa
Ildhkir narrates the following
- Abu Ja'far
(i.e. Ahmad ibn Muhamad ibn Isa) narrated from Muhammad ibn Isma'eel ibn
Bazi from Al-Ridha (a.s) and also Bukayr ibn Saleh from Sulayman ibn
Ja'far from Al-Ridha (a.s), both of them said; We entered upon him (a.s)
and he was in the state of prostration for Sajdatu Shukr, he lengthened
his prostration and then he raised his head, we said to him: "You
lengthened your prostration" He said: "Whoever supplicates with
this supplication in Sajdatu Shukr, he would be like the archer in the
battle of Badr with the Messenger of Allah (saw)." They both said: We
said, "Let us to write it down." He (a.s) said: "Write
down, when you prostrate for the Sajdatu Shukr, you should say: “O my
Lord! Curse those two people (i.e. Aboo Bakr and Umar) who changed your
religion, and changed Your bounties, and accused Your Messenger, peace and
blessings of Allah (swt) be upon him and his progeny, curse those two who
opposed Your nation and blocked Your path and ingrated Your graces, and
rejected Your decrees, and mocked Your Messenger (saw), and killed the son
(Al-Mohsin (a.s)) of Your Prophet (saw)...'" [2]
(Now this narration does not mention which
son, but because the narration later on mentions Imam Hussain AS, it means this
is another son. Also, it is speaking about Abu Bakr and Umar, and they are not
relevant (directly) to the martyrdom of Imam Hussain AS))
8. Tafseer al-Qumi (d.306H)
Although the modern day copy of Tafseer al
Qummi has certain problems in its transmission and sourcing,[3] this does
not prevent us from using it as circumstantial evidence. It is more than likely
a substantial number of the narrations are from Ali b. Ibrahim.
- Ali ibn
Ibrahim quotes his father quoting Sulayman al-Daylami quoting Abu Busayr
quoting Abu ‘Abdullah (as) as saying, “On the Day of Judgment, Prophet
Muhammed shall be called on, and he will be clad in a rosy outfit... Then
it will be called from the depths of the ‘Arsh by the Lord of Glory and
the Sublime Horizon, ‘How good your father, O Muhammed, is, who is
Ibrahim, and how good your brother is, who is Ali ibn Abu Talib (as), and
how good your grandsons are, and they are al-Hassan and al-Husayn (as), and
how good your fetus is, and he is Muhsin, and how good the rightly
guided Imams (as) are....”[4]
Within the following narration we see a clear
indication of Muhsin's fate, the narration makes a difference between Hasnain
and Muhsin. It explicitly refers to him as just a fetus while Imam Hassan and
Hussain are referred to as grandsons.
9. Tafseer al-Ayashi (d.320H)
- “When Ali
saw that people were pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr, he feared that
people would be led astray, so he devoted himself to God’s Book and took
up the task of collecting it all in one binding. Abu Bakr sent for him to
come and pledge allegiance, but Ali said “I will not come out until I have
gathered The Qur’an.” So he sent for him again, and again he said “I will
not come out until I have finished.” Then the third time, ‘Umar sent a man
by the name of Qunfudh. So Fatima, the daughter of God's messenger stood
up and intervened between him and Ali. So he attacked her. Qunfudh went
back without Ali. Fearing that Ali would gather people together, he
ordered for firewood to be placed around the house. Then Umar set fire to
it, wanting it to burn down Ali’s house along with him,Fatima, Hassan, and
hussing inside. When Ali saw that he came out and pledged allegiance under
duress and not voluntarily.”[5]
- From ‘Amr b.
Abi Al Miqdam, on his father’s authority on his grandfather’s authority:
‘Never have I experienced a day worse than two days that Ali experienced.
The first one was the day in which the Messenger of God was taken from
this world. As for the second day, by God, I was sitting in Saqifa Bani Sa’ida to the right of Abu Bakr
whilst the people were pleading allegiance to him, when ‘Umar said to him,
“You do not actually have anything in hand as long as Ali has not pledged
allegiance to you. Why do you not send for him so that he can come to you and pledge allegiance
to you, for the people here are only lay people.” So he sent Qunfudh to him, and told him
to go and say to Ali: ‘Respond to God’s Messengers caliph.’ So Qunfudh
went and, it was not long before he came back, and said to Abu Bakr, “He
said to you: ‘the Messenger of God has not appointed anyone after him
besides me.’” He said “God back to him and say: ‘You had better respond,
for the people have all gathered to pledge allegiance to him, the
muhajirun and the ansar all pledge allegiance as do the Quraysh, and you
are a man from among the Muslims whose gain and loss is the same as
theirs” So Qunfudh went back to him, and it was not long before he
returned saying, “he says to tell you: “The Messenger of God told me and
made a bequest to me that once I have entered him in his grave, not to
come out of my house until I have compiled God’s book , for it is still on
palm leaves and camel hides.’” Umar said, “Let us all go to him.” So Abu
Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Khalid Ibn AL Waleed, Al Mughira Ibn Shuba, Abu Budaya
Al Jarrah, Salim the protege of Abu Hudayfa,and Qunfudh all stood up, and
I stood up with them. When we reached his door, Fatima, may God;s
blessings be upon her, saw them and she closed the door to them. She did
not think that they would enter upon her except with her permission. So
Umar kicked the door down with his foot and broke it, it being made of
rattan. Then they entered and dragged Ali out by the collar. So Fatima
came out saying, “Abu Bakr, do you want to make me a widow ? By God, if
you do not leave him alone I will
untie my hair, tear my clothes, go
to my fathers grave and cry out to my Lord.” Then she took Hassan and
Husayn, and went out towards the grave of the Prophet. So Ali said to
Salman, “Go and fetch Muhammad’s daughter, for I must ensure that both
sides of Medina are protected. By God, if she unties her hair,tears her
clothes, goes to her father’s grave and cries out to her Lord, there will
be nothing to stop Medina from collapsing to the ground (with its
inhabitants).” So Salman fetched her. He said “Oh daughter of Muhammad,
God sent your father as a mercy, so come back.” She replied, “Salman, they
want to kill Ali, and Ali has no patience. Let me go to my father’s grave
so that I may untie my hair,tear my clothes, and cry out to my Lord.” So
Salman said, “I fear that Medina will collapse into the ground, and it is
Ali who has sent me to you and commands you to go back to your house and
abstain.” So she responded, “Very well then, I will go back and be
patient, and I will listen to him and obey.”’ The narrator says, ‘So they
dragged him out of his house by the collar and made him walk past The
Prophet’s grave, peace be upon him and his family.’ He said, ``I heard him
say “Son of my mother, these people overpowered me!” until the end of the
verse (7:150)....[6]
10. al-Mustrshid (d.Early 300’s
H)
This book is from Al Tabari Al Imami Al
Kabeer, Muhammad b. Jarir b. Rustum al-Tabari al-’Aamili, and not the author of
Dilal Al Imamah known as Tabari Al Imami Al Sagheer. Al Tabari al-Kabeer is an
Imami of high status and of great knowledge as stated by al-Najashi[7]
- "And
Umar was enthusiastic about burning the house of Faatima (s.a) and
swearing at Ali (a.s)."[8]
- It is
narrated from Imam al-Sadiq (as): When Amir al-Mu’mineen (as) left the
house, Fatima AS left the house in a state of great sadness, and there was
no Hashimi woman except that she had joined Fatima AS until she reached
the grave (of the Prophet SAWA). Fatima AS said: Leave my cousin (Ibn
‘Ami) alone! For I swear by the one who sent Muhammad with the truth, if
you do not leave him I will spread my hair and I will wear the shirt of
the Prophet (sawa) on my head, the shirt that he had on while his soul
passed away, and I would head towards Allah (swt), Salih (the Prophet
AS) is not dearer to Allah SWT than
Ibn ‘Ami, nor is the camel dearer to Allah SWT than me, nor its calves are
dearer to Allah SWT than my children.”
Salam (ra) said: “I was near her and I saw the foundations of the Masjid of the Prophet of God uproot from its bottom to the extent that if a man had intended to go from under it, he could have. I went to her and said “Oh my Chieftess and Lady, surely Allah SWT sent your father as mercy, so do not be punished (revise this word). She then returned and the walls of the masjid returned until the dust arose from its bottom and entered our nostrils.[9]
[3] See Hossein Qazwini, Intro to Rijal Studies, Tafsir al Qummi (Discussing that the
modern copy is a mix of multiple tafasir with some unknown authors).
