History 10.1: Syeda Al-Zahra’, Fatimah-asws the Only Daughter of the Rasool Allah-saww
(Our 5th Imam-asws) Imam Mohammed Baqir-asws said: ‘Syeda Fatimah-asws, the only daughter of the Holy Prophet-saww‘s ‘Nazool’ (coming to the earth) took place five years after Rasool Allah-saww was asked to announce his ‘Risalat’ (Prophethood) by Allah-azwj. The Nazool of the Syeda-asws was on the 20th of Jamadiul Thani. The Syeda-asws met Shahadat (martyrdom) when the Syeda-asws was eighteen and lived for seventy-five days after the shahadat of her father-saww.[1]
(Our 6th Imam) says that the Syeda-asws’s (the daughter of Rasool Allah-saww) zahoor took place on the 20th of Jamadi’ul Thani.[2]
Imam Mohammed Baqir-asws said: ‘Once, the Rasool Allah-saww said to Syeda-asws, ‘Rise and bring that tray.’ The Syeda-asws went and took out the tray with fresh bread and steaming meat on it. The Holy Prophet-saww, Ali-asws, Syeda Fatimah-asws, AI-Hassan-asws and Al-Hussain-asws continued to have their meals from it for thirteen days.
Then ‘Umm Ayman saw Al-Hussain-asws with certain things (from the Heavenly Food) with him-asws. She asked, ‘Where did you-asws get it from?’ Imam Hussain-asws replied, ‘We have been having this for our meal for the past thirteen days.’
Umm Ayman came to the Syeda-asws and said, ‘Ya Syeda-asws, if ‘Umm Ayrnan finds anything it is all for you-asws and your-asws sons but is there anything in it for ‘Umm Ayman.’ Syeda-asws then took out food for her from the tray and ‘Umm Ayman ate but the food from the tray vanished.
The Holy Prophet-saww said: ‘If she had not eaten it (being a non-Masoom – fallible) from it (out of the Heavenly Food), you-asws and your-asws descendents could have found food in it up to the Day of Judgement.’[3]
(Our 5th Imam) Imam Mohammed Baqir-asws then said, ‘The tray is with us-asws and our Al-Qa’im-ajfj (the 12th Imam-asws) will take it out at his-asws time (of appearance).[4]
The Marriage of Syeda-asws With Imam Ali-asws:
(Our First Imam-asws) Amir-ul-Momineen-asws said, ‘Once, when the Rasool Allah-saww was sitting an angel-as who had twenty four-faces came to him-saww and said Allah-azwj has Sent me to join in marriage the ‘Al-Noor’ with ‘Al-Noor’ (The Light with the Light).’ The Rasool Allah-saww then asked, ‘Who with whom?’ The angel-as said, ‘Syeda Fatimah-asws and Ali-asws.
The Imam-asws said: When the angel-as turned around on his shoulder it was written, ‘Mohammed the Rasool Allah-saww, and Ali-asws Wasi’ (the executor of his-saww will).’ The Rasool Allah-saww asked, ‘Since when has this been written on your shoulder?’ The angel-asws replied, ‘It was there twenty two thousand years before Allah-azwj created Adam-as.[5]
The narrator says, I heard Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws say, ‘If Allah-azwj had not Created Amir-ul-Momineen-asws Ali-asws, no match could be found for Syeda-asws on the earth from the (time of) Adam-as until the end (the time of Qiyamat – the Hereafter).[6]
It is narrated that Imam Musa Kazim-asws (our 7th Imam) would treat a ‘fever’ (a strange one which lasts for months and affects certain body parts at a time and moves from lower body to upper body) by using two clothes, one in cold water and one on him, exchange them, and say, ‘يَا فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتَ مُحَمَّدٍ’ (Ya Fatimah-asws, daughter of Muhammad-saww).[7]
(Our sixth Imam) Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq-asws said that Amir-ul-Momineen-asws Ali-asws, was most similar to the Rasool Allah-saww in consumption of food and in behaviour. He-asws ate bread with oil and fed people bread and meat.’ The Imam-asws said, ‘(Imam) Ali-asws would bring water and firewood. The Syeda-asws would prepare flour, dough, bread and do the stitching. The Syeda-asws’s face was the best of faces among people (Divine Light would emerge from her-asws face), ‘Salawat’ ‘Ya Allah-azwj Grant compensation to her-asws, to her father-asws, her husband-asws and her children the purified ones-asws.[8]
The Shahadat of Syeda-asws:
(After the Shahadat of Rasool Allah-saww, some Muslims decided to make Abu Bakr as the successor of Rasool Allah-saww but Imam Ali-asws and his-asws true followers declined to accept Abu Bakr as the successor (Caliph) after Rasool Allah-saww and told them that Rasool Allah-saww, during his life-time, had already appointed Ali-asws (as his-saww successor).
(After some time), Umar said to Abu Bakr, ‘Send a message to Ali-asws to do his ‘Bayt[9] (pay allegiance), for there is nothing in this (Caliphate) until he-asws does ‘Bayt’, and if he-asws were to do so, it will be secure’. Abu Bakr sent a message to him-asws, ‘Answer to the caliph of the Rasool Allah-saww’. The messenger came and said that to him-asws. Imam Ali-asws replied to him: ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj, with what haste you have forged a lie to the Rasool Allah-saww, he knows and those that surround him know that the Allah-azwj and His-azwj Messenger-saww did not appoint a Caliph other than myself-asws’. The messenger went and informed him (Abu Bakr) of what he-asws had said to him.
Abu Bakr sent his messenger again and insisted that Ali-asws must do ‘Bayt’ of ‘Amir-ul-Momineen’. Ali-asws said to him (the messenger should tell to Abu Bakr): ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj, by Allah-azwj it has not been long and he (Abu Bakr) has forgotten it. By Allah-azwj, he knows that this is a name (Amir-ul-Momineen), which is not correct except for myself-asws, and Rasool Allah-saww has ordered it, and he himself was the seventh one who had saluted me-asws as Amir-ul-Momineen (the chief of the faithfuls). He (Abu Bakr) and his companion Umar were among those seven (people) who inquired by saying, ‘Is this truth from Allah-azwj and His-azwj Prophet-saww?’
The messenger returned and informed him of what he-asws had said. He kept quiet from him on that day.
When Imam Ali-asws saw the Abandonment of the people, their avoidance of supporting him-asws, and their gathering around Abu Bakr and their obedience to Abu Bakr, Mola Ali-asws decided to stay at his-asws house.
(After a few days) Umar said to Abu Bakr, ‘What is preventing you to send someone to Ali-asws for the ‘Bayt’, for there is no one remaining except that he has done Bayt apart from him-asws and those four (Mola Ali-asws’s supporters)’. And Abu Bakr was softer of the two men, and more thoughtful of the two, and the more peaceful of the two, and had more foresight of the two, and the other one was more short-tempered of the two, and hard-hearted of the two, and more oppressive of the two. Abu Bakr said: ‘Who shall we sent to him-asws?’ Umar said, ‘We should send to him-asws Qunfuz, and he was a man who was rude, muscular, short-tempered from one of the freed slaves.[10]
He sent him, and sent some ‘Al-Ansar’ along with him, and they gather at house of Imam Ali-asws. They sought permission from Imam Ali-asws to enter the house. He-asws did not permit them. The companions of Qunfuz returned to Abu Bakr and Umar – and they were both seated in the Masjid, and the people were around them. They said, ‘He-asws is not permitting us’. Umar said, ‘Go, if he-asws gives you permission, and if not, enter without permission.’ They rushed across. They sought permission. The Syeda-asws said, ‘Get out of here all of you that you cannot entered into my-asws house without my-asws permission!’ They returned, and Qunfuz the accursed, remained there. They said (to Abu Bakr and Umar), ‘The Syeda-asws said such and such. She-asws told us to get out of her-asws house, for we (cannot) enter without permission’. Umar got angry and said, ‘What have we to do with the women (being very disrespectful – nouzo billah)?’
Then he ordered the people around him to carry firewood. They all carried firewood, and Umar carried it with them. They went around the home of Imam Ali-asws and the Syeda-asws, and their-asws two sons-asws. Then Umar called out until Imam Ali-asws and the Syeda-asws heard, ‘By Allah-azwj, Come out to us, O Ali-asws, and do ‘Bayt’ to the caliph of Rasool Allah-saww, or else we will burn down your-asws house upon you-asws’. The Syeda-asws said: ‘O Umar, what have you to do with us-asws?’ He said, ‘Open the door or else we will burn down your-asws house upon you-asws’.
She-asws said: ‘O Umar, do you not fear Allah-azwj that you want to enter into my-asws house?’ He refused to leave. And Umar called for the fire. He set fire to the door, then pushed it and entered. Syeda Fatima-asws confronted him and shouted: ‘O my-asws father-saww, O Rasool Allah-saww! Umar raised his sword, and it was in its sheath, and hit the Syeda-asws with it on her-asws side. The Syeda-asws screamed: ‘O my-asws father!’ He raised the whip. He struck her-asws with it on her-asws arm. She-asws called out: ‘O Rasool Allah-saww! Evil it is what Abu Bakr and Umar have done after you-saww!’
Defense of Ali-asws for the descendant of the Prophet-hood
(When Umar moved forward) Ali-asws leapt up and grabbed Umar by the collar and pushed him away. He fell and injured his neck and nose. Mola Ali-asws was about to kill him but he-asws remembered the statement of the Rasool Allah-saw: “O Ali-asws! you must not fight with them (unless there are 40 supporters with you-asws)”. So, Mola Ali-asws said: ‘By the One Who-azwj has Honoured Mohammed-saww with Prophet-hood – O son of Sahhaak – had the Book of Allah-azwj not been in front of me-asws, and the promise – my-asws promise to Rasool Allah-saww, you would have never been able to enter my-asws house’!
Umar yelled out for help. The people came over until they entered the house, and Imam Ali-asws reached for his-asws sword. Qunfuz returned to Abu Bakr and he feared that Imam Ali-asws would come out to him with his-asws sword, having known of his-asws bravery and determination. Abu Bakr said to Qunfuz, ‘Return, and see if he-asws comes out, or else break down his-asws house, and if he-asws still refuses, burn down his-asws house upon him-asws’. Qunfuz – the accursed – returned.
He and his companions entered without permission, and Imam Ali-asws reached for his-asws sword. They got to him-asws first, and they surrounded him-asws, and there were many of them. Some of them took their swords out, grabbed him-asws and seized him-asws. They put a rope around his-asws neck. The Syeda-asws came in between him-asws and them near the door of the house.
And Qunfuz then hit Syeda Fatima-asws with the whip when she-asws came between them and her-asws husband-asws, and Umar had instructed him, ‘If the Syeda-asws comes between you and him-asws, hit her-asws’. Qunfuz, may Allah-azwj Curse him, forced her-asws to take refuge behind the door of her-asws house, and he pushed it. The ribs on her-asws side broke, and as a result of which (Mohsin-asws) was martyred. The Syeda-asws did not cease being injured as a result, until she-asws met Allah-azwj, as a martyr’.[11]
Syeda-asws Did not Pray for Allah-azwj’s Wrath on the Nation of Rasool Allah-saww:
It is narrated from the 6th Imam-asws that Imam Ali-asws was taken out of his home (by force by the orders of Abu Bakr) and at that time the Syeda-asws also came out in the defence of Mola Ali-asws. The Syeda-asws had placed the shirt of the Rasool Allah-saww on her head, while holding the hands of her-asws two sons-asws and said, ‘What have I done to you, O Abu Bakr, that you want to make my sons orphans and myself a widow. By Allah-azwj, had it not been a harsh and harmful thing, I would have spread my headgear and cried before my Allah-azwj for help.’ A man among the people then, pleaded for mercy and Syeda-asws then stop (praying against them) by brings her hands down.[12]
The narrator says I once heard Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws say that Syeda Fatimah-asws (after the Shahadat of Holy Prophet-saww) came to one of the pillars in the Masjid (of Holy Prophet-saww) and addressing the Holy Prophet-saww said, ‘After you-saww great differences have taken place. If you had been present the issue would not increase this much. We have missed you-saww just as the land loses its share of rain. Your-saww nation is in disorder; you-saww must bear witness and do not remain absent.[13]
Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws said: The Syeda-asws lived for seventy-five (75) days after the Shahadat of the Rasool Allah-saww. The Syeda-asws had become extremely sad after the Shahadat of her father-asws. Angel Jibril-as would visit her-asws with condolences because of the Shahadat of her-asws father-saww with Allah-azwj’s Blessings. Jibril-as would inform the Syeda-asws about where her-asws father-saww was and about what might happen after her-asws Shahdat to her-asws descendents and Ali-asws would write down such information (Just as the Holy Quran was Revealed to the Holy Prophet Mohemmed-saww).[14]
Amir-ul-Momineen-asws (Our first Imam-asws also known as Abul Hassan-asws) has said: ‘The Syeda-asws is truthful and a martyr. The ‘Rijs’ (uncleanness) never come close to the daughters-asws of the Prophets.[15]
(Our 3rd Imam-asws) Imam Hussain-asws ibn Ali-asws has said: After burying the Syeda-asws, Amir-ul-Momineen-asws said the following while turning towards the holy grave of Prophet-saww, in the state of immense grief and with a torn heart: ‘Ya Rasool Allah-saww! Salam be upon you-saww from me-asws and from your daughter-asws who has come to visit and reside besides you-saww. And will rest under dust near you-saww. Allah-azwj has Joined her-asws with you-saww so soon.
‘Ya Rasool Allah-saww! It was already too hard for me-asws to come to terms with your-saww separation but the departure of your-saww beloved daughter-asws has left me-asws restless. I-asws have adopted patience from the time I-asws laid you-saww to rest. Your-saww soul departed from your-saww holy body when your-saww body was resting between my neck and chest. The Holy words of Book are sufficient from me: ‘Inna lillah hay wa Inna lilla hay Rajaoon’.
‘You-saww have taken your-saww precious gift back from me-asws, after leaving part of your-saww heart and soul with me-asws for a very short while. Heavens and earth have become pitch-dark for me-asws and I-asws have plummeted into an eternal grief. And I-asws will neither find any sleep nor any relief until Allah-azwj also Brings me-asws there where you-saww are.
‘My-asws heart is wounded and wounds have gone soar and my-asws grief is on the boil. (O Syeda-asws) How soon we have been separated. I have sent forward my case (lament) to Allah-azwj.
‘(Ya Rasool Allah-saww) Your daughter-asws will inform you how your-saww nation got together in forcibly taking away the rights of your daughter-asws. When you ask her-asws, your daughter-asws will tell you-saww, her-asws soul was filled with the immense grief, but the Syeda-asws was denied to take it off her-asws chest but she is eager to share with you her-asws heartache. Indeed, Allah-azwj is the best Judge. I-asws send Salam on both of you-asws, the Salam which one sends when departing. I-asws will never be able to leave you-asws, even if I-asws try hard, as I am so wounded but I-asws will also be unable to stay here because I-asws firmly believe in Allah-azwj’s Promise to those who remain patient.
‘Alas! But patience is better, if cruel and unkind people were not in the power, I-asws would have stayed besides your-asws graves and would cry and cry hard (Matam) as one would do when a loved one departs. Thus, your-saww daughter-asws, by Allah-azwj, has been buried very secretly. Her-asws rights were forcefully taken away, her-asws inheritance was usurped and it occurred so soon that memories of your-saww presence have not even faded.
‘Ya Rasool Allah-saww! Our complaints are on their way to Allah-azwj, I-asws will not find anyone better than you-saww to share my-asws grief and offer condolence on your-saww daughter’s Shahadat.’[16]
The narrator says once I asked our 6th Imam (Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws) ‘Who washed Syeda Fatimah-asws (for burial)?’ The Imam-asws replied: ‘Amir-ul-Momineen-asws Ali-asws did.’ My reaction to his-asws words seemed to be slightly unusual. The Imam-asws said, ‘You seem to be unsatisfied by what I-asws said.’
I (the narrator) replied, ‘Yes, may I be sacrificed for your-asws, it is so.’ The Imam-asws then said, ‘Do not be uncomfortable (with what I-asws have told you). The Syeda-asws was the most truthful person and no one has the authority to wash an all-truthful person (Masoom-asws) but another all-truthful person (Masoom-asws). Did you not know that no one could wash Mary-as (for burial) except for the Jesus-as?’[17]
The Holy Grave of Syeda-asws:
The narrator says I asked Imam Ali Al-Reza-asws (our 8th Imam-asws) about the grave of Syeda Fatimah-asws. Imam Ali Reza-asws replied that the Syeda-asws was buried in her own house. When the Amawids enlarged the Masjid (Mosque) it became part of the Masjid.[18]
History 10.2: Imam Al-Hassan-asws Ibn Ali-asws:
It is narrated that Imam AI-Hassan-asws ibn Ali-asws’s ‘Nazool’ (coming to the earth) took place in the month of Ramadan (15th) in the year that the battle of Badr took place, the second year after Hijra (A.H.) (migration of the Holy Rasool Allah-saww from Makkah to Medina). Imam Hassan-asws was martyred (through poison) in the end of the month of Safar (28th Safar) in the year forty-nine (A.H). Imam Hassan-asws lived for forty-seven years and a few months. His-asws mother was Syeda Fatimah-asws, daughter of the Rasool Allah.[19]
Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws said: ‘AI-Hassan-asws ibn Ali-asws passed away at the age of forty-seven in the year fifty A.H. He-asws lived forty years after the Shahadat of the Rasool Allah-saw (total life 47 years and few months)[20]
Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws said: ‘Once, Imam AI-Hassan-asws ibn Ali-asws went outside the town with a man from the children of al-Zubayr who believed Imam Al-Hassan-asws to be the Imam. They stopped for rest on one of the oases under a palm tree that had dried up due to lack of water. A furnishing was spread for Imam al-Hassan-asws under that tree and for al-Zubayri the furnishings were arranged under a tree just next to it. The narrator has said that al-Zubayri looked up the tree and said, ‘I wish this tree had fruits so we could eat from them.’ Imam AI-Hassan-asws asked, ‘Do you wish to have dates?’ He said, ‘Yes, I do wish to have dates.’ Imam Hassan-asws raised his hands to the sky and spoke certain words that I did not understand. The tree turned green. It returned to its normal condition, its leaves grew and it became loaded with dates. The man from whom they had hired camels begun to say, ‘It by Allah-azwj, is magic.’ Imam AI-Hassan-asws said, ‘Woe is upon you, it is not magic. It is a prayer of the grandson of a Rasool of Allah-saww that is answered.’ They climbed the tree to pick the dates that were there and it provided enough for their needs.[21]
(Our 6th Imam-asws) Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws said: ‘Imam AI-Hassan-asws has said, ‘Allah-azwj has two (hidden) cities. One is in the East and the other is in the West. They have a boundary around them that is made of iron and each one has a million doors. Seven thousand different languages exist therein and I know all those languages and all that is in and between the two cities. No one is an Imam (possesses Leadership with Divine Authority) over them except me-asws and my brother Al-Hussain-asws.[22]
Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws has said, ‘One year Imam Al-Hassan-asws ibn Ali-asws left for Makkah on foot. On the journey Imam-asws’s feet swelled and the Imam-asws’s servants said, ‘If you-asws travel riding, the swelling will go away.’ The Imam-asws replied, ‘I will not ride up to the coming place for rest where you will see a black person who has oil with him. Buy from him oil without trying to reduce the price.’ The servant said, ‘May Allah-azwj Keep my soul and the souls of my parents in service for your-asws cause, we had never been up to a place of rest where anyone sold such medicine.’
‘The Imam-asws said to him, ‘Yes, there are such people right ahead of you before reaching the place for rest.’ They walked for a mile and they met the black person. Imam AI-Hassan-asws said to his servant, ‘There is the man. Take the oil from him and pay him.’ The black man asked the servant, ‘For whom do you want this oil?’ He replied, ‘I want it for Imam Al-Hassan-asws ibn Ali-asws. He said, ‘Take me to him-asws.’ They came to Imam Al-Hassan-asws and the man said, ‘May Allah-azwj Keep my soul and the souls of my parents in service for your-asws cause; I did not know that you-asws need this. If you-asws want to have it you-asws can have it as a gift. I am only one of your-asws servants. Just pray for me to Allah-azwj to grant me a healthy son who would love you-asws, the Ahl al-Bayt-asws. When I left, my wife was about to give birth.’ The Imam-asws said, ‘Go to your place. Allah-azwj has gifted you with a healthy son who is of our Shi’a (followers).[23]
Shahadat of Imam Hassan-asws:
It is narrated by some companions of the Holy Imam-asws that ‘Ju’ada’ daughter of ‘Ash’th ibn Qays al-Kindi poisoned Imam Al-Hassan-asws ibn Ali-asws and a female servant of the Imam-asws. The female servant, however, vomited the poison but in case of Imam Hassan-asws, the poison remained in his-asws digestive system and caused swelling that became the cause of the Imam-asws’s Shahadat.[24]
History 10.3: Imam Al-Hussain-asws Ibn Ali-asws:
It is narrated that Imam AI-Hussain-asws ibn Ali-asws’s ‘Nazool’ took place in the third year A.H. (after Hijrah, migration of the Holy Prophet) on the 3rd of Shaban. Imam Hussain-asws was martyred in the month of Muharram in the year sixty-one (61) A.H. Imam Hussain-asws lived for fifty-seven (57) years and few months. Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad (may he fall in condemnation of Allah-azwj) murdered him-asws during the Caliphate of Yazid ibn Mu’awiya (may he fall in condemnation of Allah-azwj). He was the governor of Kufa. The horsemen who murdered him were led by ‘Umar ibn Sa’d (may he fall in condemnation of Allah-azwj) in the plane of Karbala. It took place on Monday the tenth of the month of Muharrarn. His-asws mother was Syeda Fatima-asws the daughter of the Rasool Allah-saww.[25]
Imam Abu ‘Abd Allah-asws (Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws) has said, ‘Imam Al-Hussain-asws passed away a martyr on the day of ‘Ashura’ (tenth of the month of Muharram) and he was fifty seven (57) years old.[26]
Our 6th Imam-asws has said also: Imam Al-Hussain-asws would not have any feed from his mother Fatimah-asws, or anyone else. They would bring him-asws to the Holy Prophet-saww to place his thumb in the child-asws’s mouth. The child would receive food therefrom and it sufficed him for three days. The flesh of Al-Hussain-asws grew from that of the Rasool Allah-saww and his-asws blood from the Rasool Allah-saww’s blood.
In another Hadith from Imam Abu Al-Hassan Al-Reza-asws, it is said that they (people of the family) would bring Imam Al-Hussain to the Rasool Allah-saww and he-saww would place his-saww tongue in his-asws mouth. This sufficed him (for food) and he would not require any other feed.[27]
I heard Imam Jafar e Sadiq-asws (6th Imam-asws) who has said: “About the Words of Allah-azwj, then he (Abraham) contemplated when looking at the stars (37:88) and said, “I am sick.” (37:89)
Abu ‘Abd Allah-asws has said, ‘Prophet Abraham-as calculated and found what had happened to Imam Al-Hussain-asws then he-as said, “I am sick because of what will happen to al-Hussain-asws.[28]
Imam Abu ‘Abd Allah-asws has said, ‘When all that happened to Imam Al-Hussain-asws had happened, the angels-as wept and cried before Allah-azwj and said, “How could such a thing happen to Imam Al-Hussain-asws Your-azwj Chosen one-asws and the grandson of Your Prophet-saww? The Imam-asws has said that Allah-azwj, then Showed them the shadow of ‘Al-Qa‘im’ (the one who will rise with Divine Authority and Power) and said, ‘Through him-ajfj I-azwj will Bring the perpetrators to My Justice.[29]
Imam Mohammed Baqir-asws (5th Imam-asws) has said, When (Divine) support came to Imam Al-Hussain-asws ibn Ali-asws it filled from earth to the Heavens and then he-asws was given the choice to have victory or to meet Allah-azwj, but he-asws chose the Iatter (to meet Allah-azwj).[30]
It has been narrated through a chain of trustworthy followers of Ahl Al-Bayt-asws that ‘When Imam Al-Hussain-asws was murdered people wanted to run horses over his (Imam al-Hussain-asws’s) body. Fizza-ra (the elderly servant of Syeda-asws the daughter of the Holy Prophet-saww) then said to the elder sister of Imam Hussain-asws, ‘My lady-asws, there was a shipwreck and Safina came out on an Island face to face with a lion. He (Safina) said to the lion, “O Abu Al-Harith, I am a slave of the Rasool Allah-saww.” The lion murmured in front of him and showed him the way. There lives a lion in this area. Allow me to go and inform him of what the people intend to do to Al-Hussain-asws tomorrow.’ The narrator has said that she (Fizza-ra) went to the lion and said, ‘O Abu Al-Harith, and the lion raised his head. She asked, “Do you know what these people intend to do to (the body) of Imam Hussain-asws? They intend to run horses over his-asws body.’
The narrator has said that the lion walked (all the way) and placed both of his hands over the body of Al-Hussain-asws. When the horsemen came they found the lion in that, position and Umar ibn Sa’d (may he fall in condemnation of Allah-azwj) told them, ‘It is mischief Do not bother and turn back. They turned back (on that day).’[31]
(The narrator says) I heard Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq-asws say, ‘After Imam Al-Hussain-asws was martyred his-asws wife, who was from the tribe of al-Kalb, began to organize a mourning gathering. Syeda-asws wept and the ladies and servants wept until their tears dried up. There was one female servant (slave) who wept and her tears would not stop. She called her and asked, ‘How is it that our tears have dried up and your tears have not?’ She said, ‘When I sutler I drink Sawiq (a kind of soup made of wheat and or barley).’ She-asws then ordered to prepare Sawiq and food. She-asws would drink and eat and give others to drink and eat and say, ‘We need to find energy to weep for Imam Al-Hussain-asws.
Our 4th Imam-asws has said, once, a certain kind of (roasted) birds were given to Al-Kalbia lady-asws (the widow of Imam Hussain-asws) to help her-asws in her mourning for Imam Al-Hussain-asws.’ When she saw them she asked: What are these for? They told her that they were a gift from so and so to help you-asws in mourning for Imam Al-Hussain-asws. She-asws said: ‘We are not in a wedding. What do we do with them?’ and Syeda-asws told her-asws servants to take them out of the house. When they were taken out of the house they just disappeared as if they did not exist or flew between the Heavens and earth and afterwards no trace of them was found anywhere.[32]
Our sixth Imam-asws says: Imam Hussain-asws Ibn Ali-asws said: I-asws am the Martyr of Tears. No Momin (believer) remembers me-asws without crying.[33]
Appendix: References for Teachers
Zahoor of Syeda-asws:
وَ رَوَى الشَّيْخُ الْجَلِيلُ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَرِيرٍ الطَّبَرِيُّ فِي كِتَابِ «دَلَائِلِ الْإِمَامَةِ» بِسَنَدٍ مُعْتَبَرٍ عَنِ الْإِمَامِ الصَّادِقِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ أَنَّ وِلَادَةَ فَاطِمَةَ الزَّهْرَاءَ عَلَيْهَا السَّلَامُ كَانَتْ فِي الْعِشْرِينَ مِنْ جُمَادَى الثَّانِيَةِ،[34].
As per narrated by Sheikh Mohammed bin Galilee Jarir al-Tabari in the book «signs of Imamate» quoting a reliable tradition from Imam Sadiq-asws that the ‘Zahoor’ of Syeda Fatima Zahra-asws, was on the 20th of Jamadi’ul Thani.
Shahadat day of Syeda-asws:
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مَحْبُوبٍ عَنِ ابْنِ رِئَابٍ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ قَالَ سَأَلَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنِ الْجَفْرِ فَقَالَ هُوَ جِلْدُ ثَوْرٍ مَمْلُوءٌ عِلْماً قَالَ لَهُ فَالْجَامِعَةُ قَالَ تِلْكَ صَحِيفَةٌ طُولُهَا سَبْعُونَ ذِرَاعاً فِي عَرْضِ الْأَدِيمِ مِثْلُ فَخِذِ الْفَالِجِ فِيهَا كُلُّ مَا يَحْتَاجُ النَّاسُ إِلَيْهِ وَ لَيْسَ مِنْ قَضِيَّةٍ إِلَّا وَ هِيَ فِيهَا حَتَّى أَرْشُ الْخَدْشِ قَالَ فَمُصْحَفُ فَاطِمَةَ ع قَالَ فَسَكَتَ طَوِيلًا ثُمَّ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَبْحَثُونَ عَمَّا تُرِيدُونَ وَ عَمَّا لَا تُرِيدُونَ إِنَّ فَاطِمَةَ مَكَثَتْ بَعْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ص خَمْسَةً وَ سَبْعِينَ يَوْماً وَ كَانَ دَخَلَهَا حُزْنٌ شَدِيدٌ عَلَى أَبِيهَا وَ كَانَ جَبْرَئِيلُ ع يَأْتِيهَا فَيُحْسِنُ عَزَاءَهَا عَلَى أَبِيهَا وَ يُطَيِّبُ نَفْسَهَا وَ يُخْبِرُهَا عَنْ أَبِيهَا وَ مَكَانِهِ وَ يُخْبِرُهَا بِمَا يَكُونُ بَعْدَهَا فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهَا وَ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ ع يَكْتُبُ ذَلِكَ فَهَذَا مُصْحَفُ فَاطِمَةَ ع
Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn Mahbub from ibn Riab from abu Ubayda who has said the following:
‘People from our group asked Abu Abd Allah-asws about Jafr and the Imam-asws said: ‘It is the skin of a bull which is full of knowledge. They then asked the Imam-asws about al-Jamiah. The Imam-asws replied: ‘It is a parchment that is seventy yards long with the width of a hide like that of the leg of a huge camel’. It contains all that people may need. There is no case for which there is not a rule in it. In it there is the law even to settle the compensation for a scratch caused to a person. ‘I (the narrator) then asked the Imam-asws: What is the Mushaf of Fatimah-asws? The Imam-asws waited for quite a while. Then he-asws said: ‘You ask about what you really mean and what you do not mean. Fatimah-asws lived after the Rasool Allah-saww for seventy-five days. She-asws was severely grieved because of the Shahadat of her-asws father.
Jibril-as would come to provide her solace and condolence due to the Shahadat of her-asws father. Jibril-as would comfort her-asws soul, inform her-asws about her father-asws, his place, of the future events and about what would happen to her children. At the same time Ali-asws would write all of them down and thus has come to be known as the Mushaf of Fatimah-asws’.[35]
Zahoor and Shahadat of Imam Hassan-asws:
الإرشاد: ولد أبو محمّد الحسن عليه السّلام بالمدينة ليلة النصف من شهر رمضان سنة ثلاث من الهجرة، و جاءت به أمّه فاطمة (صلوات اللّه عليها) الى النبيّ صلّى اللّه عليه و آله و سلم يوم السابع من مولده في سرقة من حرير الجنة كان جبرئيل نزل بها الى النبيّ صلّى اللّه عليه و آله و سلم، فسمّاه حسنا و عقّ عنه كبشا،
(It is written) in Al-Irshad, that the Zahoor of Abu Muhammad al-Hasan-asws took place in the Al-Medina on the night of the fifteenth of the month of Ramadan in the year three of immigration, and his mother Fatima-asws brought him-asws to the Prophet-saww and Gabriel-as descended to the prophet on the seventh day of the Zahoor and brought from Paradise outfit and a ram for Aqiqa.[36]
Also in Bihar, it is narrated that the Shahadat of Imam Hassan took place on the 28th of Safar in 49/50th of Hijra.[37]
كا، الكافي وُلِدَ ع فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ فِي سَنَةِ بَدْرٍ سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ بَعْدَ الْهِجْرَةِ وَ رُوِيَ أَنَّهُ وُلِدَ فِي سَنَةِ ثَلَاثٍ وَ مَضَى ع فِي شَهْرِ صَفَرٍ فِي آخِرِهِ مِنْ سَنَةِ تِسْعٍ وَ أَرْبَعِينَ وَ مَضَى وَ هُوَ ابْنُ سَبْعٍ وَ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً وَ أَشْهُرٍ[38].
In Al-Kafi, it is narrated that Imam Hassan’s Shahadat was towards the end of the month of Safar.[39]
Zahoor and Shahadat of Imam Hussain-asws:
قَالَ ابْنُ عَيَّاشٍ سَمِعْتُ الْحُسَيْنَ بْنَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ سُفْيَانَ الْبَزَوْفَرِيَّ يَقُولُ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع يَدْعُو بِهِ فِي هَذَا الْيَوْمِ وَ قَالَ هُوَ مِنْ أَدْعِيَةِ الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثِ مِنْ شَعْبَانَ وَ هُوَ مَوْلِدُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع.
(It has been narrated) that Ibn al-Ayyash heard from Hussein bin Ali bin Sufyan Albzovra say:
I heard Abu Abdullah-asws called (some of his companions) and he-asws said that the Zahoor of Imam Hussain was on the 3rd of Shaban.[40]
سَعْدٌ وَ أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنْ أَخِيهِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنِ ابْنِ مُسْكَانَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: قُبِضَ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ ع- يَوْمَ عَاشُورَاءَ وَ هُوَ ابْنُ سَبْعٍ وَ خَمْسِينَ سَنَةً.
Sad and Ahmad ibn Mohammad both have narrated from Ibrahim ibn Mahziyar from his brother, Ali ibn Mahziyar from al-Hussain ibn Said from Mohammad ibn Sinan from ibn Muskan from Abu Basir from Abu Abd Allah-asws:
Abu Abd Allah-asws said: Al-Hussain-asws had passed away a martyre (and he-asws was martyred) on the day of ‘Ashura’ (10th of the day of Muharram) and he-asws was fifty-seven years old.[41]
[1] See appendix for reference
[2] See appendix for reference
[3] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1. Chapter on Masomeenasws, h 6.
[4] Ibid, h 7.
[5] Ibid, h 8.
[6] Ibid, h 10.
[7] Ibid, Vol. 8, h 87.
[8] Ibid, Vol. 8, h 176.
[9] Bayt those days was to accept one as his leader by forwarding one’s right hand as a gesture of one’s support.
[10] He was freed by the Messenger of Allahsaww after the conquest of Mecca.
[11] Kitab Sulaym Ibn Qais Hilali, H. 3
[12] Ibid, h 320.
[13] Ibid, h 564.
[14] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, Chapters on History, Syeda Fatimahasws, h 1.
[15] Ibid, h 2.
[16] Ibid, h 3, Ayan al-Shia, Vol., 2, Nahjul Israr, vol. 2, Pg. 219
[17] Ibid, h 4.
[18] Ibid, h 9.
[19] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, Chapters on History, Imam Hassanasws
[20] Ibid, h 2.
[21] Ibid, h 4.
[22] Ibid, h 5.
[23] Ibid, h 6.
[24] Ibid, h 3
[25] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, Chapters on History, Imam Al-Hussainasws.
[26] Ibid, h 1.
[27] Ibid, h 4.
[28] Ibid, h 5.
[29] Ibid, h 6.
[30] Ibid, h 7.
[31] Ibid, h 8.
[32] Ibid, h 9.
[33] كامل الزيارات، النص، ص: 109, chapter 36, H. 3
[34] ( 1) دلائل الإمامة للطبري: ص 13 ط الأعلمي بيروت.
[35] Al-Kafi,Vol. 1, H. 633 (Arabic)
[36] مستدرك الوسائل و مستنبط المسائل ج15 148 36 – باب أنه يجوز أن يعق عن المولود غير الأب بل يستحب ….. ص : 148
[37] بحار الأنوار (ط – بيروت)، ج44، ص: 135
[38] ( 1) الكافي ج 1 ص 461، و هو من كلام الكليني قدّس سرّه.
[39] Al-Kafi, Vol. 1, Chapters on History, H.1
[40] بحار الأنوار (ط – بيروت) ج44 201 باب 26 مكارم أخلاقه و جمل أحواله و تاريخه و أحوال أصحابه صلوات الله عليه ….. ص : 189
[41] الكافي (ط – الإسلامية)، ج1، ص: 464, H. 1.