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Tragedy of al-Zahra’: Doubts and Responses [The Tragedy of Fatima Daughter of Prophet Muhammad: Doubts cast and Rebuttals]

Tragedy of al-Zahra’: Doubts and Responses [The Tragedy of Fatima Daughter of Prophet Muhammad: Doubts cast and Rebuttals] Author: Ja’far Murtadha al-Amili
Translator: Yasin T. al-Jibouri
Publisher: www.al-islam.org
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Introduction
Author’s Introduction
Choosing the Tragedy of al-Zahra’ as a Topic
Notes
To The Reader
Preface
Important Points to Notice
Repeated Points
Notes
Part 1: Al-Zahra’ (sa) And Her Tragedy
Status and Infallibility of al-Zahra’ (sa)
When was al-Zahra’ (sa) Born?
Who is Superior: Maryam or Fatima, peace with them both?
Worthiness of al-Zahra’ (sa)
Head of the Women of Mankind
The Social Activity of al-Zahra’ (sa)
Al-Zahra’ : Her Father’s Mother
Does Infallibility Force One Not to Commit Sins?!
Do Environment and Surroundings Affect Infallibility?
The Ability to Revolt Against the Environment And the Surroundings
Wives of Prophets Noah and Lot (as)
Maryam (sa) Facing the Challenge
Deductions from the Above
Notes
Part 2: Al-Zahra’ (sa) And The Unknown
Ideological Connection is Insufficient
Al-Zahra’ (sa) was above Menstruation and Postpartum
Interpreting Texts
Is al-Zahra’ (sa) the First Author in Islam?
Are There in “Mushaf Fatima” Judicial Injunctions?
There is No Contradiction in Traditions about Fatima’s Mushaf
Portraying Contradiction Differently
Notes
Part 3- Digression: Khalid ibn al-Walid and his Father
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Story of al-Walid ibn al-Mughirah
Notes
Part 4: What Al-Mufid Says
Relying on What Scholars Say
Consensus Regarding Oppression
What Shaikh al-Mufid Intended to Say in His Book Titled
Al-Irshad
The answer to the above is as follows
Al-Mufid Did Not Mention What al-Tusi Mentioned
What the Fadak Story?
Fatima (sa) After The Prophet’s Demise
Fadak
Khutba of Fatima al-Zahra' (sa) Demanding Fadak
(Fatima (sa) then turned towards the Ansar and said:)
A Brief History of Fadak After Fatima's Death
Back to the Ikhtisas Book
Al-Ikhtisas Book by Shaikh al-Mufid
Notes
Part 5: Kashifal-Ghita’ And Sharafud-Din
What Kashifal-Ghita’ Says
1. Kashifal-Ghita’ Does Not Deny What Took Place
2. People Accepting the Hitting of al-Zahra’ (sa)
3. Al-Zahra’ (sa) Arguing About What Took Place
4. Al-Zahra’ (sa) Arguing
5. Ali (as) Refers to this Matter
6. Protest’s Justifications non-Existent
7. Al-Zahra’ (sa) Did Not Remind Abu Bakr of What Took Place
8. What Sayyid Sharafud-Din Confirms
9. Other Evidences and Proofs
Did We Miscalculate?!
Reactions to the Book are in Two Directions
Glimpses from Some Reactions
Written Responses
Scholarly Value of such Responses
Nation’s Religious Authorities and Renown Theologians Make a Stance
Our Hand is Stretched out for a Debate
Objections and Reproaches
Why Rebut?!
Sanctifying the Legacy
A Reference
Arguments Regarding the Angels’ Species
Why was the Response Late?
Who is “Oppressed”? Is this “Scandalizing”?
Quoting Sayyid Sharafud-Din
Time Period Between Hijri and Christian Calendars
All Islamic Ideology is Human Except Fundamental Facts
What Implication did the Bi’r al-’Abd Attack
Curses and Condemnations
Why a Reply Method?
Perhaps Speaker’s Objective is not the Impression he Gave
Those Who Fish in Muddy Waters
Now is Not the Time for Such Issues
A Bad Method; There is no Objection to Using it!
Exiting the Sect’s Fiqhi Circle
Is This the Jawahiri Approach?
Placing the Hands on One Another, Testimony for the Wilayat
Permissibility of Looking at Nudity
About the Social Activity of al-Zahra’ (sa)
Categorizing or Sorting Texts
Specialization and Sulaym’s Book
He set out without a Legislative Method
Authentication of Texts
No Need for any Change
Notes
Part 6: “Their Love And Respect Deter Them”
This Part’s Research
Their Dispute With Ali (as) and Respect for al-Zahra’ (sa)
Status of al-Zahra’ (sa) with the Ansar and with Her Assailants
Who Said to ‘’Umar, “But Fatima (sa) is Inside...”?!
How Much Respect Did the Sahaba Have For al-Zahra’ (sa)?
Asking For Fatima’s Forgiveness Denotes the Status of al-Zahra’ (sa)
Was al-Zahra’ (sa) Pleased With Both Senior Sahabis?!
Unsuccessful Devious Attempts
Is the Grave of al-Zahra’ (sa) Known to Anyone?
Courage of al-Jahiz الجاحظ
An Embarrassing Conclusion
Al-Zahra’ (sa) Meeting Men; the Veil Issue
Notes
Part 7: Why Did Al-Zahra’ Have To Open The Door?
Where were Ali’s Zeal and Manliness?
Where is Ali’s Courage?!
A Lady Confined to Her Chamber Never Opens the Door
Had Ali (as) Responded to Them
What if Fidda Responded to Them?
An Example and a Witness
Would they be too Afraid to Open the Door though Armed?!
Doesn’t Ali (as) Defend the Trust of the Messenger of Allah S?!
Is Beating al-Zahra’ (sa) a “Personal Matter”?!
The Fadak Factor
Those Present Had to Help al-Zahra’ (sa)
Notes
Part 8: From Here And There
Did Medina’s Houses have Doors?!
They did not Enter the House, so How did they Beat al-Zahra’ (sa)?!
1. “Do Not Quote me Saying it!
2. “Ali (as), Not I, Says So!”
3. He Dropped the Incident of Fatima (sa) Being Beaten!
4. Finding Fault With the Ruling System
5. Distorting the Book Titled Al-Ma’arif
Qunfath’s Version Contradicts the Shaikh’s “Consensus”
No Need to Assault al-Zahra’ (sa) While Ali (as) is Present
Confusion and Contradiction in the Narratives
Negation Requires Evidence
Miscarriage of al-Muhsin Due to a Natural Cause!
Did al-Zahra’ (sa) Cry Because of Impatience?!
The “House of Grief” and People Annoyed by Her Weeping
Bayt al-Ahzan Harmed Rather than Benefitted them
Prohibition of Grieving over Falsehood, not over Weeping
Prohibition of Weeping Over the Dead
The Torah and the Prohibition of Weeping over the Dead
Politics! What do You Know About Politics?!
Notes
Part 9: “I Know Not About The Nail...”
The Nail
The Book in the Balance
Method of Exposition
Weak Expressions
Grammatical Errors
Correction
Malik-Shah: The Knowledge-Loving Ignorant Man
Recklessness and Indiscretion
The King Assassinates his Vizier
The King Trusted only his Vizier
Who Were the Attendants?
Other Unjustifiable Contradictions
Caliphate or Imamate?
Unjustifiable Contradictions
Statement Lacking Historical Precision
Sometimes, it is the Method of Deduction
1. Cursing and Condemning
2. The Prophet’s Doubt of His Own Prophetic Mission!
3. Sunnis and the “Distortion” of the Qur’an
4. “He frowned and turned his back away”
5. Convictions of the Three Caliphs
6. How do You Prove the Betrayal of Abu Bakr?
7.’Umar Doubting Prophetic Mission
8. “My Nation’s Consensus will never be Wrong” and ‘Othman’s Murder
9. Tradition of العشرة المبشرة the Ten Men Given the Glad Tiding of Going to Paradise
10. Mut’a for the Sake of Getting Money
11. “Let me Resign, for I am not Your Best!”
Notes
Texts And Legacies
These Chapters
OPPRESSING AL-ZAHRA’ (sa)
1. Sayyid al-Himyari (d. 173 A.H./789 A.D.)
2. Al-Barqi (d. 245 A.H./859 A.D.)
3. Al-Nu’man, the Judge (d. 363 A.H./974 A.D.)
4. Mihyar al-Daylani (d. 428 A.H./1037 A.D.)
5. Ali ibn al-Muqarrab (d. 629 A.H./1232 A.D.)
6. Al-Khali’i (d. 750 A.H./1349 A.D.)
7. ‘Ala' ad-Din al-Hilli (killed in 786 A.H./1384 A.D.)
8. Mughamis al-Hilli (d. in the late 900s A.H./15th Century A.D.)
9. Muflih al-Saymari (d. 900 A.H./1495 A.D.)
10. Al-Hurr al-’Amili (d. 1104 A.H./1693 A.D.)
12. Sayyid Hayder al-Hilli (d. 1304 A.H./1887 A.D.)
13. Sayyid Baqir al-Hindi (d. 1329 A.H./1911 A.D.)
14. ‘Allama al-Qazwini (d. 1335 A.H./1917 A.D.)
15. Hafiz Ibrahim (d. 1351 A.H./1932)
16. Al-Isfahani, the Critic (d. 1361 A.H./1942 A.D.)
Notes
Texts And Legacies From The Fourteen Infallible Ones
Traditions Regarding How al-Zahra’ (sa) was Persecuted
Two Narratives Before the Reader
What Sacred Texts Narrate
What is Narrated From the Messenger of Allah (S)
What is Narrated from Imam Ali (as)
Books, like the sun, whose light
What Imam al-Hassan al-Mujtaba (as) Narrates
What is Narrated by al-Sajjad (as)
What Either al-Baqir or al-Sadiq (as) has Narrated
What is Narrated from Imam al-Baqir (as)
What Imam al-Sadiq (as) is Quoted Narrating
What is Narrated from Imam al-Kazim (as)
What is Narrated From Imam al-Rida (as)
What is Narrated from Imam al-Jawad (as)
What is Narrated from Imam al-’Askari (as)
Notes
Oppressing Al-Zahra’: Centuries-Old Sectarian Arguments
Testimonials
1. ‘Abd al-Jabbar, the Judge (d. 415 A.H.)
2. Sayyid al-Murtada, the Flag of Guidance (d. 436 A.H./1014 A.D.)
3. Shaikh al-Tusi (d. 460 A.H./1068 A.D.)
4. Abul-Salah al-Halabi (d. 474 A.H.)
5. ‘Abd al-Jalal al-Qazwini (d. cir. 560 A.H./1165 A.D.)
6. Yahya ibn Muhammed al-’Alawi al-Basri
7. Sayyid Ibn Tawus (d. 664 A.H./1266 A.D.)
8. Nasir ad-Din al-Tusi (d. 672 A.H./1273 A.D.)
9. ‘Allama al-Hilli (d. 726 A.H./1326 A.D.)
10. Shams ad-Din al-Isfarayani (d. 826 A.H./1423 A.D.)
11. Al-Qawshaji (d. 879 A.H./1474 A.D.)
12. The Virtuous al-Miqdad (d. 826 A.H./1423 A.D.)
13. Al-Bayadi al-’Amili
14. al-Gharawi and al-Harawi
15. The Researcher al-Karki (d. 940 A.H./1533 A.D.)
16. Ibn Makhdam (d. 976 A.H./1568 A.D.)
17. The Martyred Judge al-Tasatturi (d. 1019 A.H.)
18. Ibn Sa’d al-Jaza’iri (d. 1021 A.H./1612 A.D.)
19. Al-Hurr al-’Amili (d. 1104 A.H./1693 A.D.)
20. ‘Allama al-Majlisi (d. 1110 A.H./1698 A.D.)
21. Abul-Hassan al-Fattani
22. Al-Khawajoo’i al-Mazandarani (d. 1173 A.H./1759 A.D.)
23. Shaikh Yousuf al-Bahrani (d. 1186 A.H.)
24. Shaikh Ja’far Kashifal-Ghita’ (d. 1228 A.H./1813 A.D.)
25. Sayyid ‘Abdullah Shubbar (d. 1243 A.H./1827 A.D.)
26. Sayyid Muhammed Qulli al-Naishapuri al-Hindi (1189 – 1260 A.H./1775 – 1844 A.D.)
27. Sayyid Muhammed al-Mahdi al-Husayni al-Qazwini (d. 1300 A.H./1883 A.D.)
28. Sayyid al-Khunsari (d. 1313 A.H./1895 A.D.)
29. Ayatollah al-Muzaffar (d. 1375 A.H./1955 A.D.)
30. Sayyid Sharafud-Din (d. 1377 A.H./1952 A.D.)
31. Martyr [Muhammed-Baqir] al-Sadr (d. 1400 A.H./1980 A.D.)
Notes
Al-Muhsin In Texts And Legacies
Did al-Muhsin Die Young?!
What the Foremost Tabi’in Have Said
Mentioning al-Muhsin Without Mentioning the Reason for His Death
Deleting Muhsin’s Name without Saying Why
Referring to the Miscarriage and why
Muhsin was miscarried because of Grief for the Demise of the Prophet (S)
Is This Historical “Confusion”?
Notes
Incident In The Wording Of Traditionists And Historians
Ziyarat of al-Zahra’ (sa), the Truthful Lady
What al-Mufid Records in Al-Amali
Important Note
Notes
Conclusion

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