Notes
1. Al-Irshad, p.375-376
2. Mir’at az-Zaman, vol.9 p.553
3. Muruj ath-Thahab, vol.4 p.113
4. Tareekh al-Ya’qubi, vol.3 p.209
5. Mir’at az-Zaman, vol.9 p.553, Tathkirat al-Khawas, p.359, Muruj ath-Thahab, vol.4 p.114
6. It was a caravansary of paupers
7. Al-Irshad, p.376
8. Mir’at az-Zaman, vol.9 p.553
9. Tareekh Baghdad, vol.12 p.57
10. Qur'an, 111:1
11. Bihar al-Anwar, vol.4
12. Qur'an, 9:25
13. Tareekh al-Islam by ath-Thahabi chap. The men of the twenty-sixth class, Tathkirat al-Khawas, p.360.
14. Al-Muntadham, vol.12 p.26-27
15. Qur'an, 49:84-85
16. Sharh Shafiyat Abu Firas, vol.2 p.167.
17. The call of cells is the azan in the mosques
18. Al-Manaqib
19. Qur'an, 27:40
20. Qur'an, 12:100
21. Qur'an, 12:101
22. Qur'an, 10:94
23. Qur'an, 25:20
24. Qur'an, 3:61
25. Qur'an, 31:27
26. Qur'an, 43:71
27. Qur'an, 65:2
28. Tuhaf al-Uqul, al-Manaqib
29. The son of Safiyyah was az-Zubayr bin al-Awwam who was killed by ibn Jarmuz on the day of al-Jamal.
30. Qur'an, 38:39
31. Al-Manaqib by ibn Shahrashub, vol.4 p.403-406, Tuhaf al-Uqul, p.477-481
32. Qur'an, 12:28
33. Kamil az-Ziyarat, Mazar al-Bihar
34. Mazar al-Bihar.
35. Kamil az-Ziyarat, p.273, Mazar al-Bihar, p.141.
36. He meant the holy place where Imam al-Husayn (a.s) was buried
37. Kamil az-Ziyarat, p.274, Mazar al-Bihar p.141
38. Wassa’il ash-Shi’a, vol.3 p.570.
39. Kamil az-Ziyarat, Furu’ (branches of) al-Kafi, vol.4 p.567
40. Qur'an, 45:21
41. Rawdhat al-A’yan, manuscript
42. Qur'an, 26:227
43. Bihar al-Anwar
44. It refers to al-Mutawakkil
45. Al-Kharayij by ar-Rawandi
46. Qur'an, 11:65
47. Bihar al-Anwar, vol.12 p.134, al-Kharayij
48. Qur'an, 22:60
49. Qur'an, 40:60
50. The tenth month of the Muslim lunar year
51. Tareekh ibn Kathir, vol.10 p.349, Rawdhat al-A’yan, p.108
52. Fadak was a very vast, fertile village that the Prophet (s) had donated to his daughter Fatima (s). It was rich of date-palms and other fruitful trees.
53. Tareekh ibn al-Athir, vol.5 p.311
54. Tareekh al-Khulafa’ by as-Sayooti, p.357
55. It is the fourth month in the Islamic lunar calendar
56. Al-Anba’ fee Tareekh al-Khulafa’
57. Al-Anba’ fee Tareekh al-Khulafa’
58. Tareekh al-Khulafa’, p.358-359
59. Al-Fakhri, p.222