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SECTION 2
TEXTS AND LEGACIES FROM THE FOURTEEN INFALLIBLE ONES
Traditions Regarding How AL-ZAHRA’ (A.S.) was Persecuted There are numerous traditions cited by the Infallible Ones clearly outlining how al-Zahra’ (A.S.) was persecuted. They deal with how her house was assaulted with the intention to have it burnt, how the burning did actually take place, how she was hit, how she miscarried, and many other details of what she went through during the said assault. These narrations are consecutively reported (mutawatir) even if we do not add to them what others narrated and what the historians and others recorded in their books as facts. The latter is also quite numerous, even consecutively reported, as we previously pointed out. We would like here to cite a large number of texts narrated by the Infallible Ones (A.S.) in particular so that this matter becomes quite clear; so, let us set out to explore the following narratives and sacred legacies, and surely Allah is the One Who grants success.
Two Narratives Before the Reader In al-Tusi’s Amali, the author states the following:
Relying on his isnad, from his mentor, from his father, may Allah be pleased with him, he is quoted as having said, “We were told by Muhammed ibn Muhammed saying, `Aba `Abdullah Muhammed ibn `Imran informed me saying that al-Zayyat said that Ahmed ibn Muhammed al-Jawhari said that al-Hassan ibn `Alal al-`Anzi said that `Abd al-Karam ibn Muhammed said that Muhammed ibn Ali (A.S.) said that Muhammed ibn Munqir cites Ziyad ibn al-Munthir saying that Shurahbal quotes Umm al-Fadl daughter of al-`Abbas said: When the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) was under the weight of the sickness whereby he passed away, he once woke up, and we were weeping. He said: What causes you to weep? We said: O Messenger of Allah (A.S.)! We weep not to gain anything but to our departure from us; we weep for the cessation of the news from Heaven, and we weep over the nation after you. He (A.S.) said: You surely will be the oppressed and the downtrodden after me.”[1]
What Sacred Texts Narrate 1. Abu Bakr al-Shirazi, with regards to what is revealed in the Qur’an with reference to the Commander of the Faithful (A.S.), quotes Muqatil quoting `Ata’ regarding the verse saying, “Verily, We granted Moses the Book” saying that the Torah used to have the following: “O Moses! I have chosen you and chosen a vizier for you who is your brother (meaning Aaron) by your father and mother just as I chose for Muhammed Eleya who is his brother, vizier, wasi and successor. Congratulations to both of you for having such brothers, and congratulations to them for having you for brothers: Eleya, father of two grandsons, al-Hasan and al-Husain and of a third one, al-Muhassan, one of his offspring, just as I created for your brother, Aaron, Shabar and Shubayr and Mushabbar.”[2]
Note: We started with both of these narratives despite our knowledge that the first is general to the degree that there is no room to count it among the narratives which we are in the process of presenting to you. The second is not narrated by the Infallible Ones (A.S.) yet
FIRST: We would like to point out to the existence of many texts containing this same meaning, i.e. the persecution of the Household of the Prophet (A.S.) and their being oppressed.
SECOND: We would like to prepare the reader to enter and be acquainted with the environments of transgression, humiliation, oppression and treating the family of the Prophet (A.S.) as weaklings.
THIRD: This second tradition is narrated from some of Allah’s revealed Books. For this reason, we included it among the list of such traditions. It also testifies to the oppression to which al-Muhassan was exposed, something which some people try to deny. -
What is Narrated From the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) [1]Al-Tusi, Amali, Vol. 1, p. 122. Refer to p. 191 of this edition published by Al-Wafa’ Establishment of Beirut, Lebanon. Ibn Sa`d, Tabaqat, Vol. 8, p. 278. Ansab al-Ashraf, Vol. 1, p. 551. Ahmed, Musnad, Vol. 6, p. 339. Al-Khasa’is al-Kubra, Vol. 2, p. 135. Al-Mufid, Amali, p. 215. Al-Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 28, p. 40. [2]Al-Majlisi, Bihar al-Anwar, Vol. 38, p. 145, citing Al-Manaqib. |