IMAM HUSSAIN (AS) AND JANABE FATEMA ZAHRA (SA)

Imam Mohammad Baqir (a.s.) or Imam Jafar Sadiq (a.s.) informed Zoraarah,

‘O Zoraarah! It is necessary for every Shia on this earth to seek the pleasure and good wishes of Janabe Zahra (s.a.) through the Ziyarat of Imam Husain (a.s.).’

(Behaar al-Anwaar, vol. 101 pg. 75)

Peace be upon you O’ Aba ‘Abdillah and upon the souls which were annihilated with you.  Upon you, from me, is the peace of Allah for eternity, as long as the night and the day remain and please do not make this (Ziyarat) as my last contact with you.  Greetings be upon Husayn, and upon ‘Ali the son of Husayn and upon the children of Husayn and upon the companions of Husayn.

Abu Basir! Don’t you want to be of those who support Lady Fatima (s.a.)?”

It is written in the book Kamiluz Ziyarat ( chp 26 tdn no 7) :

Abu Basir says: I was speaking with Imam Sadiq (a.s.) when one of his sons entered. Imam (a.s.) said: ‘May Allah bless you’; and then embraced and kissed him.

Then he (as) said: 

‘May Allah degrade those who dishonored you. 

May Allah avenge those who oppressed you. 

May Allah disappoint those who deserted you. 

May Allah curse those who slain you. 

May Allah be your guardian, protector and helper. Prophets, truthful ones, martyrs, angels of the heavens and our ladies have been weeping on you’.

Then Imam (a.s.) began to weep and said: ‘Abu Basir, when I look at the children of Imam Husain (a.s.), grief overcomes me when I remember what was meted out to them and to their father.’

‘Abu Basir, Fatima (s.a.) weeps and laments over Husain (a.s.) as a result of which Hell sighs so intensely, that if the keepers of Hell who also hear her voice did not prepare themselves to restrain it, it would burn all the inhabitants of the earth with its blazing fires and sparking fumes. So the keepers restrain it and hold its doors tightly closed as long as Fatima (s.a.) laments. Because they fear for the inhabitants of the earth. But Hell is not pacified until Fatima’s lamentation ends.’

‘Abu Basir, the seas almost split apart and collide with each other. There is a dedicated angel for every drop of water and they prevent every drop from boiling with their wings; keeping it together because of their fear for this world and everything in it. The angels remain in fear and cry for her crying. And they pray to Allah and beseech Him, after which the inhabitants of the Arsh and those around it beg Allah.’

‘Then their voices are raised in glorification of Allah, all because of their fear for the people of the earth. Even if one of their voices reached the earth, all the inhabitants would swoon, mountains would crumble and the earth would shake with its inhabitants.’

Abu Basir said, “May I be sacrificed on you! It is really a serious matter.”

Imam (a.s.) said, “That which you have not heard is greater. Abu Basir! Don’t you want to be of those who support Lady Fatima (s.a.)?”

When I heard this, I cried so much that I could not speak nor could the Imam (a.s.) do, because he was crying so intensely. Then he went to his prayer room and began to recite a supplication.

So I left the Imam in that state. I could not eat or sleep that night. The following morning, I was fasting and was in extreme fear when I went to Imam (a.s.). I heaved as sigh of relief when I saw that he had calmed down; and I praised and glorified Allah, because no chastisement or calamity had befallen me.

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Report of Tibrani (360 A.H.) about the attack on the house of revelation and martyrdom of Lady Zahra (sa)

Reports about the regret of Abu Bakr for attacking the house of revelation are narrated by Tibrani, Dhahabi and others:

It is narrated from Abu Bakr that when he was in his last moments, he said: I do not regret anything, except three things, which I committed…till he said: Alas, if I had not exposed the house of Fatima and had left alone even if I had been forced to war.[1]

It is sufficient to prove the correctness of this report that Ziyauddin Muqaddasi Hanbali, senior Ahle Sunnat scholar says: This tradition from Abu Bakr is of the rank of ‘Hasan’.[2]

Ziyauddin Muqaddasi is among the founders of science of narrators (Ilme Rijal) and logical reasoning (Jirah wa Tadeel) of Ahle Sunnat. Allamah Dhahabi has said about him: He is the Imam, the learned, the memorizer, the decisive evidence, traditionist of Shaam (Syria) and Shaykh (scholar/teacher) of Ahle Sunnat.[3]

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[1] Al-Mojam Kabir, Vol. 1, Pg. 62, Sulaiman bin Ahmad bin Ayyub Abul Qasim Tibrani (d. 360 A.H.), Maktaba Zahra, Mosul, 1404 A.H. – 1983 A.D. Second edition, Edited: Hamdi bin Abdul Majeed Salafi;

Tarikh Tabari, Vol. 2, Pg. 353, Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Jarir Tabari (d. 310 A.H.), Darul Kutub al-Ilmiyya, Beirut;

Tarikh Medina Damishq wa Zikr Fadhlaha wa Tasmiya man Halha minal Amail, Vol. 30, Pg. 418, Abul Qasim Ali bin Hasan Ibne Hibtullah bin Abdullah Shafei (d. 571 A.H.), Darul Fikr, Beirut, 1995, Edited: Mohibbuddin Abi Saeed Umar bin Ghrama Umari;

Tarikhul Islam wa Wafayatul Mashahir wal Aaalaam, Vol. 3, Pg. 118, Shamsuddin Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Uthman Dhahabi (d. 748 A.H.), Darul Kitab al-Arabi, Lebanon, Beirut, 1407 A.H. – 1987 A.D. First edition, Edited: Dr. Umar Abdus Salam Tadmiri;

Majamuz Zawaid wa Manbaul Fawaid, Vol. 5, Pg. 202, Ali bin Abu Bakr Haithami (d. 807 A.H.), Darul Riyan Lilturath/Dar Kitab al-Arabi – Cairo, - Beirut – 1407;

Al-Amwaal, Pg. 144, Abu Ubaid Qasim bin Salam (d. 224 A.H.), Footnote no. 4, Nashr Kulliyat Azhariya – wal Amwal, Vol. 1, Pg. 387, Abu Ahmad Hamid bin Mukhallad bin Qutaibah bin Abdullah, alias Ibne Zanjuya Khorasani (d. 251 A.H.);

Al-Imamah was Siyasah, Vol. 1, Pg. 21, Abu Muhammad Abdullah bin Muslim Ibne Qutaibah Dainawari (d. 276 A.H.), Edited: Khalil al-Mansur, Darul Kutub Ilmiya, Beirut, 1418 A.H. – 1997 A.D. Edited: Shiri, Vol. 1, Pg. 36, and Edited: Zaini, Vol. 1, Pg. 24;

Al-Iqdul Farid, Vol. 4, Pg. 254; Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abde Rabb al-Andulasi (d. 328 A.H.), Darul Ahya Turath Arabi, Beirut, Lebanon, Second edition, 1420 A.H. – 1999 A.D.;

Murujuz Zahab, Vol. 1, Pg. 290, Abul Hasan Ali bin Husain bin Ali al-Masudi (d. 346 A.H.);

Simtul Nujum al-Awali fee Anbail Awail wat Tawali, Vol. 2, Pg. 465, Abdul Malik bin Husain Abdul Malik Shafei Asimi Makki (d. 1111 A.H.), Edited: Adil Ahmad Abdul Maujud – Ali Muhammad Maudh, Darul Kutub Ilmiya, Beirut, 1419 A.H. – 1998 A.D.

[2] Al-Ahadithul Mukhtara, Vol. 1, Pg. 90, Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdul Wahid bin Ahmad Hanbali Muqaddasi (d. 643), Maktaba Nahzatul Haditha, Mecca – 1410, First edition, Edited: Abdul Malik bin Abdullah bin Dahish.

[3] Tadkirah Huffaz, Vol. 4, Pg. 1129, Abu Abdullah Shamsuddin Muhammad Dhahabi (d. 748 A.H.), Darul Kutub Ilmiya, Beirut, First edition.

THE HISTORIC SERMON OF GHADEER E KHUM OF THE HOLY PROPHET (SAWS)

PROPHET'S HISTORIC GHADlR SERMON

There is a humble translation of the Prophet's historic Ghadir Khumm sermon. The reader can review the original Arabic text included in this book.

All Praise is due to Allah Who is Exalted in His Unity, Near in His Uniqueness, Sublime in His Authority, Magnanimous in His Dominance. He knows everything; He subdues all creation through His might and evidence. He is Praised always and forever, Glorified and has no end. He begins and He repeats, and to Him every matter is referred.

Allah is the Creator of everything; He dominates with His power the earth and the heavens. Holy, He is, and Praised, the Lord of the angels and of the spirits. His favours overwhelm whatever He creates, and He is the Mighty over whatever He initiates. He observes all eyes while no eye can observe Him. He is Generous, Clement, Patient. His mercy encompasses everything, and so is His giving. He never rushes His revenge, nor does He hasten the retribution they deserve. He comprehends what the breast conceals and what the conscience hides. No inner I thought can be concealed from Him, nor does He confuse one with another. He encompasses everything, dominates everything, and subdues everything. Nothing is like Him. He initiates the creation from nothing; He is everlasting, living, sustaining in the truth; there is no god but He, the Omnipotent, the Wise One.

He is greater than can be conceived by visions, while He conceives all visions, the Eternal, the Knowing. None can describe Him by seeing Him, nor can anyone find out how He is, be it by his intellect or by a spoken word except through what leads to Him, the Sublime, the Mighty that He is.

I testify that He is Allah, the One Who has filled time with His Holiness, the One Whose Light overwhelms eternity, Who effects His will without consulting anyone; there is no partner with Him in His decisions, nor is He assisted in running His affairs. He shaped what He made without following a preexisting model, and He created whatever He created without receiving help from anyone, nor did doing so exhaust Him nor frustrated His designs. He created, and so it was, and He initiated, and it became visible. So He is Allah, the One and Only God, the One Who does whatever He does extremely well. He is the Just One Who never oppresses, the most Holy to Whom all affairs are referred.

I further testify that He is Allah before Whom everything is humbled, to Whose Greatness everything is humiliated, and to Whose Dignity everything submits. He is the King of every domain and the One Who places planets in their orbits. He controls the movements of the sun and of the moon, each circles till a certain time. He makes the night follow the day and the day follow the night, seeking it incessantly. He splits the spine of every stubborn tyrant and annihilates every mighty devil.

Never has there been any opponent opposing Him nor a peer assisting Him. He is Independent; He never begets nor is He begotten, and none can ever be His equal. He is One God, the Glorified Lord. His will is done; His word is the law. He knows, so He takes account. He causes death and gives life. He makes some poor and others rich. He causes some to smile and others to cry .He brings some nearer to Him while distancing others from Him. He withholds and He gives. The domain belongs to Him and so is all the Praise. In His hand is all goodness, and He can do anything at all.

He lets the night cover the day and the day cover the night; there is no god but He, the Sublime, the oft-Forgiving One. He responds to the supplication; He gives generously; He computes the breath; He is the Lord of the jinns and of mankind, the One Whom nothing confuses, nor is He annoyed by those who cry for His help, nor is He fed-up by those who persist. He safeguards the righteous against sinning, and He enables the winners to win. He is the Master of the faithful, the Lord of the Worlds Who deserves the appreciation of all those whom He created and is praised no matter what.

I praise Him and always thank Him for the ease He brings me and for the constriction, in hardship and in prosperity, and I believe in Him, in His angels, in His Books and messengers. I listen to His Command and I obey, and I initiate the doing of whatever pleases Him, and I submit to His decree hoping to acquire obedience to Him and fear of His penalty, for He is Allah against Whose designs nobody should feel secure, nor should anyone ever fear His "oppression."

I testify, even against my own soul, that I am His servant, and I bear witness that he is my Lord. I convey what He reveals to me, being cautious lest I should not do it, so a catastrophe from Him would befall upon me, one which none can keep away, no matter how great his design may be and how sincere his friendship. There is no god but He, for He has informed me that if I do not convey what He has just revealed to me in honor of' Ali in truth, I will not have conveyed His Message at all, and He, the Praised and the Exalted One, has guaranteed for me to protect me from the (evil) people, and He is Allah, the One Who suffices, the Sublime. He has just revealed to me the following (verse):

Report of Masudi Shafei (345 A.H.) about the attack on the house of revelation and martyrdom of Lady Zahra (sa)

Masudi has written in Asbatul Wasiyya:                                                                                  

They besieged him and burnt down the door of his house and brought him out of the house forcibly and crushed the chief of the ladies of the world behind the door, leading to the miscarriage of Mohsin.[1]

Taqiuddin Subaki, in the book, Tabaqatush Shafiya has mentioned his name in the list of scholars of Shafeite school of thought. Therefore, it definitely disproves that he was a Shia.[2]

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[1] Asbatul Wasiyya, Pg. 143

[2] Tabaqatush Shafiya, Vol. 3, Pg. 456-457, No. 225, Daar Ahyaul Kutubul Arbiya.

Report of Mabard (285 A.H.) about the attack on the house of revelation and martyrdom of Lady Zahra (sa)

Ibne Hadid writes:

Muslim bin Yazid bin Abdul Akbar Baghdadi (210 to 285) is a famous literary personality and a writer of famous books. In the book of Al-Kamil, he has written about the story of aspirations of Abu Bakr quoting from Abdur Rahman Ibne Auf as follows:

Alas, if I had not exposed the house of Fatima and had left it alone, even if I had been forced to war.[1]

Report of Tabari (310 A.H.) with correction of reference

It is mentioned in Tarikh Tabari:

Umar came to the house of Ali (a) while Talha, Zubair and a group of Muhajireen were present there, and he said: By Allah, come out of the house to pay allegiance to Abu Bakr, otherwise I would burn down the place…[2]

Objection of Wahabism to the genuineness of Tabari’s report

It is objected to the report of Tabari that this report is problematic due to the weakness of chain of its narrators, because some scholars have claimed that Ibne Humayyad was a liar.

In reply, we say: Difference of opinion with regard to personality of reporters is natural; therefore, it must be seen what opinions others have about him.

In Tahdhibul Kamaal of Mizzi, which is considered to be the most authentic Ahle Sunnat book of science of narrators (Ilme Rijal), it is quoted from Yahya bin Moin, who is an authority of Ahle Sunnat science of narrators (Ilme Rijal), that he said with regard to Ibne Humayyad:

He is a reliable person, without any kind of doubt and is a very good narrator.[3]

We also add that those aware of Ilme Rijal of Ahle Sunnat testify that no narrator can be found, except that regarding him weakness exists, even with regard to Bukhari, whose book is the most important book of Ahle Sunnat after the Holy Quran; various weaknesses like deceit, hypocrisy and fraud etc. are included in it.[4]

In addition to the above, Abdur Rahman Damishqiya has also raised an objection and said:

In this traditional report there are doubts: one of them being in the existence of Jarir bin Hazim, although he is an honest person, but sometimes he is involved in doubts and mistakes and as Abu Dawood has said he has mixed together the correct and incorrect reports. Another problem is Mughira bin Muqsam; that in spite of the fact that he is trustworthy, his traditions are having incomplete chains of narrators. Ibne Hajar has also included him in the third category of defrauders in traditions and his reports are not acceptable; except if it is clarified through hearing.[5]

That is why it is necessary to correct the chains of narrators of Tabari also on the basis of Ilme Rijal of Ahle Sunnat.[6]

Consequently the chains of narrators of the report of Tabari is absolutely correct and without any doubt and the objection of Abdur Rahman Damishqiya are all baseless and show his lack of attention and lack of precision about his own sources of science of narrators.

Report of Ibne Qutaibah Dinawari (276 A.H.) about the attack on the house of revelation and martyrdom of Lady Zahra (sa)

The report of Ibne Qutaibah is as follows:                                          

Abu Bakr was in pursuit of some people to take their allegiance as they were not present there to give allegiance to him. And that is why they had gathered with Ali (a). Abu Bakr in order to take allegiance sent Umar after them. Umar went after them and called out to them, but they did not pay any heed and did not come out of the house. Umar called for firewood and said: By Allah, in whose hand is my life if you don’t come out I would burn down the house with its occupants. They said to him: O Aba Hafs, Fatima is present in this house. Umar replied: Even if that is the case…In another report it is mentioned: Umar came to the door of the house of Lady Fatima Zahra (s) with a large number of helpers (Ansar) and a few emigrants (Muhajireen). When Fatima heard them she cried: O father, O Messenger of Allah (s)! What all we did not face at the hand of Ibne Khattab [Umar] and Ibne Abi Qahafa [Abu Bakr]…[1]

The personality of Ibne Qutaibah is so trustworthy in the view of Ahle Sunnat that Ibne Taymiyyah, the founder of Wahabism, has also paid tribute him in very positive terms and he says:

All the people of Marakkesh considered him respectable and honored him and anyone who had a view opposed to him was considered as heretic and apostate and they said: A house, which does not have a book of Ibne Qutaibah, has no goodness.[2]

With attention to the time of the death of Ibne Qutaibah Dainawari in the third century (276 A.H.), his proximity to the early period of Islam and the importance of his personality shows that he was a famous intellectual and an elder and leader of Ahle Sunnat in literature, history, jurisprudence, traditions, sciences of Quran and etc…so it is not possible to doubt his veracity and person, that is why they strive to cast aspersions on the reliability of Al-Imamah was Siyasah.

Since Wahabis do not have satisfactory proof to prove their weak claim that is why they have presented the statements of orientalists[3] and some weak statements of modern scholars.[4]