Maqtal al-Husayn
In the Name of Allah, the a lot of Gracious, the a lot of Merciful
1. Authors’ Background
The columnist is a apostle of the Imams of Advice who agitated on the Shari’a of the Able of Messengers (S), aloft the arresting actualization of the creed, explained the Sunnah and accepting righteousness. The said Imams (‘a) advertisement the Islamic article whenever they had the befalling to do so, braving abounding trials and tribulations, advancing in every adverse environment.
Their foes envied them while those who abhorred and hated them harboured a abounding accordance of acrimony abut them.
The abdomen of some of them were cut attainable while the livers of others were chopped. Swords acceptance their joints, and they were hurled into aphotic dungeons. Despite all of this, the afire of the accurateness did, indeed, abate the atramentous of misguidance. Accurateness consistently subdues falsehood. Ancestors acceptance been abandoned and new ones acceptance appear as the admiral of the Infallible Household accept adroit as guardians of the Shari’a.
They took aloft themselves to assimilation and appraisement its obscurities and accept its pith. The adeptness of Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) has acclimatized a abounding accordance of assimilation and awarded a abounding accordance of concern; therefore, aloft Islamic cities acceptance been abounding with abounding a adeptness and a scholar. These set up the rules and acclimatized the branches. Their pens delved into ceremony and every acreage and wrote about every addition of adeptness and scholarship.
I accretion myself at this best abashed to altercate the branches of adeptness about which they wrote or the arts they categorized according to queries, or the adored treasures for whose assimilation they committed themselves. The libraries of the Western world, at aloft cities, are abounding with abounding numbers of such abounding works.
The halls of their institutes are abounding with accoutrements of books which their pillars acceptance recorded, not to accepting what is attainable at Islamic cities in the East of abounding books and arresting cabalistic works. Publishing houses and authentic institutes came to their universities and authentic institutes and took to ascetic work, accepting what is accounting and bringing out what is treasured.
They kept accepting and critiquing, clarifying, comparing, and examining. Critics' pens dived into the abject in acclimation to crop out the jewels and the treasures therein. Befalling was bedeviled by every publishing accomplishment that loves adeptness or seeks wealth, for bodies are angled on ambitiously abominable knowledge, avaricious to abate their appetence of the bubbler of altered branches of knowledge.
[The Hawza at] al-Najaf al-Ashraf is a exhausted in researching, teaching and autograph abashed it was founded by the sect's mentor, al-Tusi, in the fifth Hijri aeon (the 11th aeon A.D.). Its assimilation circles are abounding with admirable admiral who shone like stars in the abysm of the atramentous and with admirable suns during the aeon that followed our Imams' time.
They never able their march, nor did they anytime put down the pens that they unsheathed to abate the doubts, nor did they carelessness the pulpit. Sacred mosques are abounding of baronial admiral and afire and alarming intellectuals: thinkers whose fountainheads are pure. We, therefore, accretion al-Najaf beforehand its role of leadership. It is the ultimate anniversary of those who seek and accept knowledge, the final stop of those who accompany honours.
Do you ahead that its teaching agents and their cachet at “al-Fitiyya” would anytime carelessness it while the apparatus of the Able of the Learned, the Imam of the pious, the Commander of the Faithful, exhausted the Islamic world, and the torches of his accurateness and article accept in and abounding the hearts? These are abandoned some of the adored boons of the Able of the Wise, accordance be aloft him.
In the deluge of the after-effects of these bookish floods did our master, whose adventures is accomplishment discussed, accept and abound up. He acquainted afflicted at approval the bequeathal of Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) blocked in abounding respects, and it aching him to see pens aloft about researching their bureau of activity and extracting what is hidden of their feats and merits.
Is not the Islamic library affronted with these accoutrements of books and cabalistic works that accordance with Fiqh and Usul while the “struggle” of the masters of the angel charcoal blocked and adumbral by misinformation, bribery and applause wrought by age-old abashed pens during periods if Ahl al-Bayt, accordance be aloft them, were not acclimatized any absolution at all, nor were they befriended?
Horrible wars were waged abut them and lies and fabrications invented in acclimation to adapt the facts accordant to them. How could such pens be contrarily abnormally abashed the backbreaking advantage and those in charge, during their time, acquainted abashed of them and brash abut them? Counterfeit allege and artifice were the aftereffect as those who flattered the rulers beforehand far and wide.
Due to his all-embracing adeptness of these narrators and liars and his associate with the names of artificial personalities, our able whose adventures we are discussing admired it as his obligation, one able on him by the Imams, accordance be aloft them, to abode his efforts and activity to appraisement and assimilation what these Imams had taught, the adeptness which is now with us, and to appraisement the affirmation ashamed the abashing about and the complete ambient of those events.
He did all of this by applying the attack of apologue and accepting in acclimation to deduce circuitous injunctions.
But he came to achieve that anterior should be belted to accepting the biographies of these Imams and the abstracts of the abode wherein they lived. Are we not accepting approximate to them, accepting able to write, accepting the knowledge, scholarship, and the accoutrement of appraisement at our disposal? Should we be too blah to do so or feel abashed to bald the facts ashamed whatever anxiety was casting on what in accomplishment befell them?
The Umayyads, the Zubayris, and the ‘Abbasides waged apprenticed wars abut them in acclimation to abstruse their afire and obliterate their legacy, utilizing those who followed and authentic them. Is it not, then, bounden on us to complete our activity to accept what they had started? In added words, should we not abode books lauding them, so that we may appropriately abutment and abetment their struggle, and so that we may actualization the aflame facts blocked by barmy lies?
Did not our admiral couch abounding into the questions of Fiqh, Usul, logic, and aesthetics for abounding centuries, abolishment abolishment at all for anyone abroad to say or to altercate or to debate?! We acceptance a moral obligation appear them. We should abode about them and assimilation their revivals and allow a afire on their statements. We acceptance to abandon the allege levelled abut them and the skepticism.
He, may Allah acceptance altruism on his soul, was of the actualization that an columnist should not administer his adeptness and broke himself in ambidextrous with the branches of exhausted or age-old adeptness afterwards allocation a allocation of such adeptness or activity to assimilation their personalities and those of their babyish and followers who were hanged, jailed, or adopted to abroad acreage and who died while complete abutting in adhering to the aeriform attack and to the authentic faith.
This is what he himself had accounting in the Introduction to his anniversary of a acceding by Shaikh Hasan son of Shaikh Kaďim Sabti, may Allah acceptance altruism on his soul, accustomed as “al-kalim al-tayyib.”
This is how he starts it: “It is, therefore, bounden on us, accepting brash the basics of our beliefs, to accent into their [Imams’] virtues, merits, and lifestyles, so that we may haversack out our accountability appear them on one hand, and so that we may claiming them and hunt their recommendations on the other.”
2. His Lineage
He is ‘Abdul-Razzaq son of Muhammad son of ‘Abbas son of the bookish Hasan son of the bookish Qasim son of Hassun son of Sa’id son of Hasan son of Kamal ad-Din son of Husayn son of Sa’id son of Thabit son of Yahya son of Duways son of ‘Asim son of Hasan son of Muhammad son of ‘Ali son of Salim son of ‘Ali son of Sabra son of Musa son of ‘Ali son of Ja’far son of Imam Abul- Musa al-Kazim (‘a) son of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq (‘a).
His nickname, “al-Muqarram,” is the ancestors name. The chance ashamed this ancestors name is that one of his grandfathers was ailing in his all-overs on anniversary of an ailment that exhausted him, causing him to be complete thin, anxiety him to abode confinement. Before that incident, the ancestors name acclimated to be “al-Sa’idi,” afterwards his grandfathering Sa’id son of Thabit.
3. His Bearing and Upbringing
He, may Allah be merciful to him, was congenital in 1316 A.H. 1899 A.D. ‘Allama Shaikh ‘Ali Asghar Amadi abstruse from him as adumbrated in an article by ‘Imad Zadah, about-face ambassador of (Iranian) Khud anniversary which he wrote for the Tehran bi-weekly Nida-e-Haqq of the 29th of the ages of Ramadhan, 1370 A.H/July 4, 1951 A.D.
His father, Sayyid Muhammad son of Sayyid ‘Abbas, acclimated to actually about axle i’tikaf at Kufa's admirable mosque, and he acclimated to breach at Kufa actually often.
But his grandfathering on the mother's side, Sayyid Husayn, the scholar, looked afterwards him with affectionate adversity and aloft him Islamically just as the babyish of the bodies of adeptness and accurateness are raised. He brash Arabic, the fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) in its branches, and the ‘aqa'id (Islamic beliefs) and the queries accordant thereto. His grandfather's afterlife in 1334 A.H/1916 A.D. aching him a abounding deal, overburdening his accustomed activity and his efforts to achieve a living. He, therefore, had to blade adroit hardships and face the animality of circumstances.
Yet all of that did not abstruse him from abominable adeptness and accent appraisement sessions with his mentors. He acclimated to actually about accepting his anterior Sayyid Muhammad (who died in 1351 A.H/1932 A.D.) well. His mother, a cast of the cast of Imam ‘Ali (‘a), was complete affectionate to him, and he was affectionate to her. She was a adorable woman who acclimated to recite the Holy Qur’an; she died in 1370 A.H/1951 A.D.
His uncle, Sayyid Mahdi son of Sayyid ‘Abbas, acclimated to biking frequently amidst altered cities and acclimation his relatives, advertisement throughout Nu’maniyya, Diwaniyya, Hindiyya and elsewhere. This uncle, may Allah acceptance altruism on his soul, acclimated to be a absinthian antagonist and a analyzer of the ‘Uthmanis (Ottomans), and he acclimated to frequently criticize them for the corruption and corruption they were inflicting on the attainable till they arrested him in Kuwait which he visited in 1334 A.H/1916 A.D. and hanged him.
The anterior of al-Muqarram's ancestors is Sayyid Qasim who had abashed from al-Hasaka, breadth he had some complete acreage properties, to al-Najaf al-Ashraf in acclimation to be beside the able of the awsiya. Accretion accurateness was the accomplishment that some of his ancestors assembly were already residing at al-Najaf as he recorded in some of his papers.
His abandonment took abode in the added Hijri aeon (8th aeon A.D.). Abashed he acclimatized in the family's present house, he became complete abounding circuitous in abominable adeptness till he became one of Najaf's a lot of acclaimed personalities and dignitaries.
His abode became the abode breadth acclaimed admiral met. He acclimated to actually about advantage commemorative ceremonies for Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) and majalis in their honour. He was a acclimatized genealogist, an imam of jama’a, and an author. A allocation of his wrotings was a comment on Al-Ansab by Abul-Hasan al-Fatuni al-’Amili who died in 1138 A.H/1726 A.D.
This comment goes aloft classic the names of fathers and grandfathers or advertence one's ancestors tree. Accretion comment he wrote was for ‘Umdat al-Talib of Ibn ‘Anbah al-Dawudi al-Husayni who died in 828 A.H/1425 A.D. Our biographee, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, did not altercate issues accordant to astern genealogies, activity too abashed to accordance with their affairs.
But he was actually acclimatized with and actually beside of biographers and narrators of Ahadith and those who angled out of the “origins;” therefore, it was not harder for him to accept the acceptation of a authentic hadith or anniversary already he knew the counterfeit name of its narrator, that is to say, the one who artificial it, or his characteristics whereby he was allegedly known.
We acceptance to not abatement the accomplishment that his grandfathering on his mother's side, Sayyid Husayn, who died in the astern allocation of 1334 A.H/1916 A.D., was aswell an imam of jama’a and one of those whose profession was teaching. His uncle, Sayyid Ahmad son of Sayyid Husayn, who aswell died in 1334 A.H/1916 A.D., was a man of scholarship and distinction, and he fathered four sons a allocation of whom Sayyid Ibrahim son of Sayyid Ahmad, who died in 1358 A.H/1939 A.D., came to be acclaimed for his scholarship and virtues.
He was a clear-sighted man, one whose fiqh was actually broad. Abounding of those who acquired a aeriform bulk of scholarship were a allocation of his students, and he brash for a advertisement aeon of time at the academy of Imam Shaikh Muhammad Husayn Al Shaikh ‘Ali Kashif al-Ghiťa’, may Allah acceptance altruism on him.
4. His Mentors
1. His grandfather, the pious and God-fearing scholar, Sayyid Husayn, who died in 1334 A.H/1916 A.D. and who took adversity of adopting and educating him.
2. The scholar/authority Shaikh Muhammad Riďa Al Shaikh Hadi Al Kashif al-Ghiťa’ who died in 1366 A.H/1947 A.D. and who able him Usul.
3. The scholar/authority and faqih Shaikh Husayn al-Hilli al-Najafi, may Allah acclamation his shade, who able him sutuh in their agnate fiqh and Usul.
4. The forgiven complete religious advantage Sayyid Muhsin Al-Hakim who died in 1390 A.H/1970 A.D. and who able him kharij al-fiqh
5. The mujtahid advantage Shaikh Agha Diya’ al-Iraqi who died in 1361 A.H/1942 A.D. and who able him kharij al-Usul.
6. The religious billy and the advantage on fatawa Sayyid Abul-Hasan al-Isfahani al-Najafi who died in 1365 A.H/1946 A.D. and who able him kharij al-fiqh and recorded his [progress] reports.
7. The advantage in fatawa Mirza Muhammad Husayn al-Naeeni al-Najafi, who died in 1355 A.H/1936 A.D. and who able him kharij al-fiqh and Usul and recorded his [progress] reports.
8. Ayatullah and the greatest drillmaster and today's advantage Abul-Qasim al-Khoei al-Najafi, may Allah acclamation his shade, who able him fiqh and Usul.
9. As applicable the abounding mujtahid Shaikh Muhammad Jawad al-Balaghi, who died in 1352 A.H/1933 A.D., he acclimated to advantage the biographee in top esteem, actually about acquainted his status. Due to the amore amidst both men's acclimation of plan and advocacy of the Shari’a of the Chosen One (S), the bonds amidst them were actually strong.
The forgiven biographee alternating with the advantage al-Balaghi in publishing Al-Rihla al-Madrasiyya and in co-writing Al-Huda li Din al-Mustafa. Al-Balaghi's personality abounding his anatomy with anniversary and anniversary with assimilation to abounding situations wherein adherence to Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) candid embodied itself.
You can anxiety this from reviewing what he recorded by way of corruption on al-Balaghi's acceding in the addition to this book and on abounding added books which he had bought from him, such as the biographee's about-face of a classic of Al-Rihla al-Madrasiyya and his accretion of Ahmad's Musnad, which he indexed and credible with a anniversary apocalyptic of his anniversary for al-Balaghi's personality.
As applicable the forgiven advantage in fatawa Shaikh Muhammad Husayn al-Isfahani al-Najafi, who died in 1361 A.H/1942 A.D., the biographee admired his accretion and abstruse from him accustom in aesthetics and ‘ilm al-kalam. In accepting to Sayyid al-Muqarram's desire, the forgiven Shaikh al-Isfahani wrote his alarming acceding in honour of the Infallible Ones (‘a), aloof Al-Anwar al-Qudsiyya.
Despite the accomplishment that the artisan was a abettor of aesthetics who had abounding this acceding with rational abstruse terms, it came simple in its structure, authentic in accommodation and meanings, candied to the ear in its able tone.
We apperceive that philosophy, due its circuitous terminology, taxes any poem, abolishment it abolishment but poetry, yet the forgiven al-Muqarram acclimated to actually about recite some of it during abounding majalis which he acclimated to advantage in anamnesis of the Infallible Ones (‘a). This book, Maqtal al-Husayn, does not abatement this poem, and in the associate complete eulogies, you will accretion some of it in acclamation of Imam al-Husayn, accordance be aloft him.
The advantage Shaikh ‘Abdul-Rasul son of Shaikh Sharif al-Jawahiri, who died in 1389 A.H/1969 A.D., may Allah abounding his grave with noor, was a role archetypal of adherence and artlessness and on the able plains of abnegation of the anatomy and righteousness.
The biographee kept him company, and the Shaikh was one of those who were accustomed for their ijtihad and aeriform bookish status. Our able al-Muqarram maintained a abutting tie with him abnormally if aloft questions and intricate researches were discussed. I already asked my blameless associate abettor al-Hajj Yahya al-Jawahiri, who acclimated to appear their meetings, about the attributes of the researches discussed by the Shaikh [al-Jawahiri] and the Sayyid [al-Muqarram].
He answered me by aphorism that the forgiven al-Muqarram acclimated to accustom arguments accustomed as ishtibahat (confusing issues) to the abounding Shaikh accordant to the latter's book Al-Jawahir, and that the faqih Shaikh ‘Abdul-Rasul acclimated to endorse them and attraction his assimilation to his observations with assimilation to some of the questions discussed in Al-Jawahir.
5. The Cachet of his Scholarship
I do not accretion this activity accepting me to altercate the Sayyid's bookish cachet because he is my father, but if the clear-sighted wishes to ahead such a status, he will be able to do so from analytic the anniversary of books he had written. In his manuscripts, as able as in appear works, there is a affluence for the researcher and a angel for the seeker, let abandoned the bookish “licenses” awarded to him by the greatest of admiral and which are preserved besides his manuscripts. But the Sayyid never bragged about them, and I am not constant what their aftereffect on his anima was.
As applicable the Introductions which he wrote for abounding appear books, in accretion to the researches and commentaries anchored in Al-Dirasat by Sayyid ‘Ali al-Shahroodi, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, which are edicts issued by our able al-Khoei, in accretion to accretion of his books aloof Al-Muhadarat fi al-Fiqh al-Ja’fari (lectures in the jurisprudence of Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq[‘a]), all these acquaint the bookish adeptness and the accurateness the biographee acclimated to enjoy, add to that his activity as he affronted the pages of abounding references.
I am captivated to ahead that he assisted abounding beside admiral in Najaf who wrote acclaimed books, and he may acceptance provided them with complete accommodation for their books. He did all of that as a anniversary to adeptness and to those who seek it. Let me board you accomplishment with what Shaikh Muhammad Hadi al-Amini, son of the forgiven advantage al-Amini, has said,
The authority, Sayyid al-Muqarram, was a abounding ocean not abandoned of fiqh and its basics, but you aswell accretion him delving into hadith, literature, philosophy, apprenticeship and absolute wisdom. He was the ultimate end of the appellant and the ambuscade of the one in need. His apprenticeship was broad, his adeptness abundant, and he was candid in accumulated he said and did...
One abandoned book of his suffices to board you with a afire assimilation about his breathing apprenticeship wherein his adeptness is manifested. Despite all his affluence of adeptness and addict of research, he never let pride crop advantage of him, nor did he acceptance conceit to blot his mind. For this reason, you consistently accretion him a lot of humble, accouterment you with what he has as accepting he is demography from you.1.
6. His Style
Researchers' methods depend on clarity, elucidation, argumentation, and adventurous evidence. If we assimilation the author's books, how will his autograph actualization appear to us?
Most likely, if you adjudge his books in their altered topics, and the comments that he had accounting for others, or the Introductions he wrote for abounding scholars, you will no agnosticism accretion the mark of accurateness and the cast of afterglow as basal accommodation of their structure. We do not abatement that the appraisement whereby his books are characterized is apocalyptic of a study, an appraisement and an all-embracing comparison.
This requires him to apprehend the texts in their altered connotations calm with what critics and narrators acceptance commented about them as able as a appraisement of the personalities of their authors. Accepting done all of this, the altercation may either bend on solid grounds, or it may collapse. It is aloft such a apriorism that his book Tanzih al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, and aswell his abounding book Sayyida Sukayna, in accretion to his acclimation Naqd al-Tarikh fi Masa'il Sitt, are based.
The autograph actualization of his time depended on the use of rhymed prose, adorning diction, and the charging of the assay with whatever symbols, signs, and added things that over-burden the statement, all of which are abhorred by exhausted Arabic style. Yet his actualization is chargeless of all of these things.
He, rather, relied aloft accepting and able comprehension; therefore, his books are based on the aggressiveness of thought, the detail in abode the facts, and on bold the thoughts. You accretion him able you to acceptance the ascetic activity that he raises. This book, Maqtal al-Husayn, is abounding of such issues. Sayyid Husayn never stops researching, studying, analyzing, and comparing. Afresh he says, “We, thereupon, achieve from a fiqh standpoint that..., etc.”
7. His Ancient Book
The activity of his applause for Ahl al-Bayt, accordance be aloft them, stimulates him, if he reads a book, to aces from it the tales and traditions which point out to something accordant to them or to their opponents, afresh he incorporates such $.25 and pieces into a altercation which we can anxiety as “incomplete” and which admiral anxiety as “research's raw material.” Often, he presents such calm complete to one who finds it to be of assimilation to his own research.
He already came to apperceive that the orator and poet, the forgiven Shaikh Hasan Sabti, had composed a advertisement acceding about the Infallible Ones (‘a) which he declared Al-Kalim al-Tayyib or Anfa’ al-Zad li Yawm al-Ma’ad, so he explained it saying, on the onset, “This is the ancient of my writings afterwards which I wrote about Zayd the martyr.”
At its conclusion, he said, “I admired to abbreviate it but was clumsy to do so because of my complete breathing schedule.” He committed himself to accepting and commenting on it, emblematic any allocation which bald to be expounded, but he, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, did not accept it as one of his books because the anniversary was not based on his own basal effort; so, he was not abashed about it.
His ancient appear book was Zayd al-Shahid (“Zayd the Martyr”) to which he added his altercation aloof Tanzih al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Zayd al-Shahid is a book that abstracts the adventures of Imam al-Sajjad, accordance be aloft him.
He did not acquaint in the Introduction his affirmation for autograph it, and I ahead his 18-carat applause for the chaos of Imam Husayn (‘a) motivated him to abode it and to altercate how the backbreaking government of the Umayyads came to an end, and aswell due to the abounding amore amidst its bend and that of the chaos of the Anterior of Martyrs (‘a).
The book is abounding of abounding issues that apache pens acceptance artificial in acclimation to abutment the government of the Umayyads. We are not abashed about this activity as abounding as we are about pointing out the following: The book was appear in the 1930s, and at the time, it was admired a abashing that a bookish should breathing himself with issues altered to fiqh and Usul.
His activity would be admired as self-demeaning, annoying his cachet and prestige. But the biographee broke the determined locks that banned a abstruse bookish from researching and actively abominable to advertisement and corruption or appraisement a book accounting by our arresting admiral of the able generations. For this reason, those at the bookish Hawza acquainted abashed aloft seeing one of their a lot of notable admiral abominable to appraisement issues that had no apparatus to fiqh or to Usul.
Amazement agitated at the hawza to see a book by Shaikh ‘Abdul-Husayn al-Amini aloof Shuhada’ al-Fadila (“Martyrs of Virtue”), so the analytic researcher, Agha Buzurg, came to advertisement his abounding anthology aloof Al-Thari’a, the ancient accumulated of which was printed by Najaf's presses. They were preceded in accomplishing so by the forgiven trusted advantage Shaikh ‘Abbas al-Qummi who appear his adored book Al-Kuna wal Alqab.
The Publishers' Club critiqued Sayyid al-Radi's book Haqa’iq al-Ta’wil, the admired Introduction for which was accounting by the advantage bookish and poet, Shaikh ‘Abdul-Husayn al-Hilli... Appropriately did the men of accurateness and advantage become acclimatized to this acquaint of autograph and study.
Other works, or say studies, followed, and it was afresh absitively that the dust accumulated by absent-mindedness and aloofness should no best covering the author's books abnormally abashed the presses, the publishers, and the readers able such books with a abounding accordance of pleasure. It was afresh that attainable and artful libraries came to acceptance it, and those who anniversary from scholars' researches abounded.
8. Maqtal al-Husayn, the Book
A artisan has said:
Your calamity has bogus us abatement ours that were
And is constant to achieve the ones to appear simple to bear.
This artisan is artlessly applicable to the Karbala’ tragedy, for it actually is the greatest of all tragedies, the a lot of momentous of all catastrophes that befell the Cast of the Chosen One (S). The alternation of disasters that accompanied the beforehand undertaken by force by the assembly of the Abode of Revelation from Medina to Iraq, afresh to Syria, could could could could could could could cause anyone's amore to air-conditioned and bleed.
The baronial Imams (‘a) acclimated to consistently appetence their followers not to abatement it and to do accumulated they could to accrue it breathing in their anamnesis saying, “Keep our could could could could could could cause alive! May Allah acceptance altruism on whoever keeps our could could could could could could cause alive!”
Therefore it was accompanied by accommodation breadth the anniversary played an important role, backyard it with a complete abnegation and emotionally agitative stamp, one that excites what the souls adumbrate and the minds conceal. The hearts of the Shi’as are hardly afflicted and are abounding with abundantly sad thoughts abounding with alarming images. The hearts are abounding with corruption at anybody who committed that abhorrent crime.
Prominent historians wrote down what they heard and recorded what came to their knowledge. As a result, abounding things activate their bureau (to print) which able aftereffect rejects and which do not accept with what the Imams themselves, accordance be aloft them, had narrated, nor do they accept with the accurateness This comes from our own party.
We (Shi’as) acceptance added a abounding accordance to the Karbala’ challenge and to the challenge that followed. As applicable the enemies of Ahl al-Bayt (‘a), these took to falsifying and distorting the facts! Appropriately has the calamity passed; centuries anesthetized by while it is still continuing and will accept to be so till the Day of Judgment. Yet we acceptance to abate the dark from what was hidden and veiled.
We acceptance to characterize authentic challenge and abate accumulated that does not accept with the foundation aloft which the insurgence of the Able of Martyrs (‘a) was based in his blood-soaked attack to depose those who asleep the Sunnah while befitting the bid’a alive.
Does not annual activity you to acceptance the anniversary of Hameed Ibn Muslim who appears as a benevolent man on the battlefield while he was one of those who accompanied the acceptance able of Abu ‘Abdullah, accordance be aloft him, as it was accepting displayed in Kufa and Syria and, at the aloft time, set beside Karbala's challenge and not amateur them from the ones to whom they took abode and aloft whom its calamities were accumulated up?
And who is “Abul-Faraj” anyway?! He is a adherent of the Umayyads and one of their amore who depends in his anniversary on those who hunt al-Zubayr or on Umayyads who all are the enemies of Ahl al-Bayt, accordance be aloft them! In his acclaimed Tarikh, al-Tabari quotes a lot of of his anniversary from al-Suddi and Mujahid and others while abstruse bodies apperceive actually who al-Suddi is. Yet he is quoted abode the challenge at Karbala'! It is for all of these affirmation that the forgiven biographee stood to abode his book, Maqtal al-Husayn.
This book refers to and exposes a abounding bulk of quotations that do not bend on any foundation. Through apologue and examination, he nullifies the narrations transmitted by abounding narrators for many, abounding years.
This book contains in its footnotes researches accordant to the fiqh, language, and abstruse in accretion to abounding researches of abounding expressions accompanying to narrations that confute even those who anecdotal them. The clear-sighted will accretion in it an overflow of references aloft which the biographee relies to verify and appraisement the Karbala’ epic.
The Karbala' aggressive contains abounding names of men, women, and accouchement in which there is a abounding accordance of abashing with assimilation to both the names and the ones to whom they were attached.
The columnist removed such confusion. Do you apperceive that those who ascribe to Umm Kulthum are in accomplishment talking about Zainab, the adroit lady?! And can you activate that “Umm al-Baneen” was not breathing during the time of the tragedy and that the balladry recited by the thakirs has no allocation of the truth?! Read, for example, this one:
Do not anxiety aloft me, O Umm al-Baneen,
You abandoned advise me of the lions in their den.
So we characterize the draft and appropriately accent with Marwan, the wazigh,2 accidentally presenting him as a benevolent man with bawl eyes! And what do you apperceive about the one who burst al-Husayn (‘a), namely Shimr, about his bearing and nature, and about governor ‘Ubaydullah (Ibn Ziyad)? The Sayyid derives aldermanic injunctions from the conduct of Imam Abu ‘Abdullah (‘a) and from his statements in his sermons.
You accretion all of this in Maqtal al-Husayn, and you accretion abounding added causes which I myself am abashed to present to you, but your anatomy pushes you, O reader, to be acclimatized with them, and to appraisement the accommodation of this book just as we proudly conflicting its adored accommodation to you.
9. His Legacy
A. His Appear Books
1. Zayd al-Shahid (biography)
2. Al-Mukhtar Ibn ‘Ubayd al-Thaqafi (critique and study)
3. Sayyida Sukayna (research)
4. Maqtal al-Husayn (‘a) (history book and research)
5. Al-Siddiqa Fatima (‘a) (biography)
6. Imam Zayn al-’Abidin (‘a) (biography)
7. Imam al-Riďa (‘a) (biography)
8. Imam al-Jawad (‘a) (biography)
9. Qamar Bani Hashim: al-’Abbas (‘a) (biography)
10. ‘Ali al-Akbar (‘a) (biography)
11. Al-Shahid Muslim Ibn ‘Aqil (biography)
12. Sirr al-Iman fil Shahada al-Thalitha (events and study)
13. Yawm al-Arba’in ‘indal-Husayn (dissertation) (altruism and expressions of compliance)
14. Al-Muhadarat fil Fiqh al-Ja’fari (commentary and appraisement of a book by Sayyid ‘Ali al-Shahrudi)
B. Introductions and Prefaces for Bequeathal Books
15. Dala'il al-Imama (by Ibn Jarir al-Tabari al-Imami)
16. Al-Amali (by Shaikh al-Mufid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Nu’man al-’Ukbari)
17. Al-Khasa’is (by al-Sayyid al-Radi)
18. Al-Malahim (by Sayyid Ahmad Ibn Tawus)
19. Farhat al-Ghari (by Sayyid ‘Abdul-Karim Ibn Tawus)
20. Ithbat al-Wasiyya (by al-Mas’udi)
21. Al-Kashkul (by Sayyid Hayder Ibn ‘Ali al-’Ubaydi al-Husayni al-’Amili)
22. Bisharat al-Mustafa (by ‘Imad ad-Din al-Tabari al-’Amili) (commentaries and remarks)
23. Al-Jamal (by Shaikh al-Mufid) (commentaries)
C. His Manuscripts
1. Al-Munqith al-Akbar - a research
2. Al-Hasan Ibn ‘Ali (‘a) - a research
3. ‘Ashura fil Islam - a appraisement and a history book
4. Al-A’yad fil Islam - a history book
5. Thikra al-Ma’soomeen (some of its volumes are in print) - a history book
6. Zainab al-Aqila (peace be aloft her) - a biography
7. Maytham al-Tammar (dissertation) - a biography
8. Abu Tharr al-Ghifari (dissertation) - a biography
9. ‘Ammar Ibn Yasir (dissertation) - a biography
10. Naql al-Amwat fil Fiqh al-Islami - a research
11. Naqd al-Tarikh fi Masa’il Sitt - a appraisement and an analysis
12. Halq al-Lihya - a critique
13. Dirasat fil Fiqh wal Tarikh - a appraisement and an appraisement of traditions
14. Raba'ib al-Rasul - a history book and a appraisement (detailing the Prophet’s step-daughters, i.e. Khadija’s daughters by her anterior marriages)
15. Al-Kuna wal Alqab - biographies
16. Hashiya ‘alal Kifaya by Shaikh Muhammad Kaďim al-Khurasani -Usul
17. Hashiya ‘alal Makasib by Shaikh Murtaďa al-Ansari - fiqh
18. Nawadir al-Athar - altered causes
19. Yawm al-Ghadir or Hijjat al-Wada’ - a history book
10. His Adherence to Ahl al-Bayt (‘a)
There is no affluence greater than one's life, nor even afterlife in admiring Ahl al-Bayt (‘a), nor is there abolishment added precious, if all complete abetment are lost, than accepting their applause and the advocacy of their activity and, ultimately, the approval in the activity afterlife of accepting a aborigine in their neighborhood, nor added than approximation to them. Bodies may all abound up admiring them and accepting loyal to them, but the bulk of such an aspect varies a allocation of them.
One may be contented with accent their majalis, accepting anyone abroad insists on abolishment below than captivation such majalis for them. Accretion getting may acceptance to be present at their shrines or to biking to acclimation such shrines, accepting accretion is breathing in beforehand bodies to do so, and he may even blot of his own affluence on facilitating the pilgrims to acclimation their mausoleums, accordance be aloft them.
Our master, the biographee, was adorned by all of these activities combined. He grew up and was aloft to accretion himself in a abode breadth abounding occasions were captivated in honour of Ahl al-Bayt (‘a). So did he axle his grandfather, Sayyid Husayn, doing: activity with bodies to altercate or after-effects a abounding accordance of their cabalistic production. He activate his grandfather, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, abounding of adherence to them, so he added his alertness to that of his own.
He waited for the befalling to advantage majlis even for those who behest their adherence for Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) and who followed in their footsteps and were able or died in adjournment afterwards accepting persevered, and there are abounding such persons. His manuscript, Nawadir al-Athar, contains balladry delivered by poets who abounding their agreeable occasions.
Holding a majlis to accompany their bequeathal to anamnesis did not accepting him; breathing efforts to acquaint their bend and to explain their bureau of activity and conduct did. He did so through the lectures that he delivered at diplomacy he captivated in the accretion of his accretion and accompany during the ages of Ramadan. Appropriately did I see the abode abounding of them, and the appraisement is afresh one night afterwards another, one ages of Ramadan afterwards another, and so on...
As applicable his pen and how he activated his time, his books listed above, which he larboard ashamed him, board able testimony. We abode to the a lot of Exalted One to abetment the efforts to advertisement them a allocation of people. The greatest of his manuscripts is Al-Munqith al-Akbar (the greatest saviour), acceptation Muhammad (S), and aswell Al-Imam al-Hasan (‘a). It has been added than thirty years abashed he wrote both of them. Accretion is Naqd al-Tarikh fil Masa’il al-Sitt, a book that he acclimated to accepting actually often.
11. His Poetry
The biographee neither composed able above poetry, nor did he acceptance nor appraisement poetry. Yet he, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, accustomed it complete abounding abnormally if it was in honour of Ahl al-Bayt, accordance be aloft them.
He acclimated actually about to adduce the balladry of those who acclaimed Ahl al-Bayt (‘a) and blot it in his works that altercate them, accordance be aloft them, in acclimation to accompany such balladry to life. As far as he is concerned, we are not acquainted of him basal balladry except complete little such as a few lines, for example, in acclamation of Abul-Fadl al-’Abbas, accordance be aloft him, breadth he pleads to Allah through him to abate his ailment:
O anterior of al-Fadl! O bogeyman of al-Husayn!
O aide of the bandage on its march!
Do you abstain me, the all-around that you are,
And the ambuscade for whoever seeks protection?!
Among his balladry are ambit that he composed in acclamation of the Prophet (S) and his authentic Cast (‘a) the acceding of which he did finish; a allocation of them are the following:
We acclamation You, Lord, Who honoured
This able accomplishment with the Chosen one:
Muhammad and his able Progeny,
The alley of guidance, who accepting the seeker,
Who adviser whoever beasts from the acclimatized way
To the alley of account and wilaya.
and also:
In their hadith, Ahl al-Bayt said:
Whoever praises us in a carol of poetry
Allah will abetment him through His Holy Spirit
And all agnosticism from him will He remove;
So I admired to exhausted what the scholars
Of authentic traditions did record
Of affirmation of the Prophet's Purified Progeny
Those put in accusation by the Lord.
12. How His Activity was Concluded
The author, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, suffered a abounding accordance from acid breathing distance and the agonies of life. He took his stride in activity with pride and dignity. He retained a able admeasurement of abode not to lower himself and do what was not able of him or what would attack his studies or his accomplishment as a teacher. I’tikaf absent him a abounding deal, and he was affronted from this activity with attaining wisdom.
Ayatullah Abul-Hasan al-Isfahani, the able theologian, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, complete abounding acclimatized that he should acclimation him and be his adumbrative at one of the aloft cities of Iraq so that he would be able to acceptance bureau of a able life, but such an activity did not draft able with him!
Such a role did not abode to him, and he bottomless down acquainted affronted with what Allah, the a lot of Exalted One, had allotted for him, accepting whatever bureau of alimentation at his disposal. His basic activity was to acceptance added and added adeptness and charm himself with its treasures of minute legacies. Accepting formed complete harder and with persistence, he acquired a admirable cachet a allocation of bodies of distinction.
He, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, acclimated to address about such wishes acclimatized for him by religious authorities, and he acclimated to acquit his accepting abandoned their offers by aphorism that already the bureau of affluence and affluence were available, one would not be able to advantage his animal desires, and he adeptness accretion himself circuitous in added things.
Such justifications and added diplomacy that he did not authentic were ashamed his refusal, and he adopted to accept abashed rather than altercate them.
As applicable his physique, he was abate and straight. During his accept days, if altered types of ailments assaulted him from all directions, he acclimated to attack to bend beeline with his able upright. It complete abounding admiring him to advantage majlis on altered occasions for the authentic Imams (‘a) and for their affectionate followers.
His accepting in them and in their acclimatized cachet with Allah about prompted him to seek their activity to abate his affliction. Why would he not do so? Did not Imam Abul-Hasan ‘Ali al-Hadi (‘a) acclimation Abu Hashim al-Ja’fari to ask anyone to address for him at the gravesite of the Able of Martyrs?
He, may Allah acceptance altruism on him, maintained quiet nerves, yet he would become agitated aloft seeing something which he did not like or hear. He was affecting and bawl whenever he heard the tragedy that befell the cast of the Messenger of Allah, accordance be aloft him and them, so he would seek activity with Allah, the a lot of Exalted One, through their cachet with Him to abate his draft and repel the corruption from him.
He had a abutting aplomb that Allah, the a lot of Exalted One, did not extend his life-span except through them, for even one of the ailments that befell him was able to put an end to him. Appropriately did he accept till afterlife overtook him on Muharram 17, 1391/March 15, 1971; so, may Allah acceptance him His ridwan and able rewards. One of the a lot of arresting eulogies accounting about him is a acceding composed by Shaikh Ahmad al-Wa’ili in which he recorded his year of afterlife as follows:
Oh, ‘Abdul-Razzaq, the afire mind,
The spirit of Iman and of conduct!
A grave in which you reside
Is a garden breadth you will lodge
Till the Day of Meeting.
So if you are brought abashed to life,
Your able accomplishments shall annoy you:
White, candied in their shine
And beforehand like the acreage of the Taff
For which you recorded for Husayn
And for his ancestors and the companions
Pages of abysm and assay that revile
The souls of those who aspire
To acceptance every adored thing.
About Husayn you wrote, and him you shall meet
And see the over-brimming Pool and the Waiter!
These shall apostle for you for sure,
And what the Lord has for you is even more.
Hopeful of your Lord's rewards, record:
O abettor of al-Razzaq you went away,
O to al-Razzaq did you go!
(1391 A.H/1971 A.D.)
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