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Assalamo Alaikom
In 2015, the management of the Grand Kūfa Mosque decided to invite two dignitaries, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, to cover the Arba`een somber anniversary of Imām al-Hussain alaihis-salam. The first is my dear friend, Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina, and the other was Mr. Patrick Cockburn, famous correspondent for The Independent newspaper whom I met for the first time. My task was to simultaneously interpret the talks between these two dignitaries and other prominent religious and military leaders in Iraq as well as the public. The attachment to this email provides you with more details.
This visit by invitation of these two dignitaries prompted me to write about the Grand Kūfa Mosque and to let it be a Supplement to my book titled A Pictorial Tour of Imām Ali’s Shrine in Arabic, English and Chinese, one of my very best, thus letting the total number of the pages of the latter title reach 480, the maximum then published in color by CreateSpace which no longer exists. I hope you will enjoy reading this Supplement and will share it with others who appreciate it. Not all people appreciate scholarship. Some people do not know what scholarship is, and I do not write for such folks, I simply ignore them.
It is not out of place here to state that the Grand Kūfa Mosque is the place where Commander of the Faithful Ali alaihis-salam ruled the Islamic world, moving the capital from Medina to Kūfa. What is so particular about Kūfa? It is the place where Prophet Noah alaihis-salam built his ark. If you go to the said Mosque, you will see in its midst the place where the tannoor, to which the Holy Qur’an refers, is located. It is the place from which the earth started emptying its underground waters, signaling the start of the great deluge.
The Grand Kūfa Mosque is also the place where Imām Ali alaihis-salam was martyred, and you can go and see the exact spot where this incident took place. When Ali alaihis-salam was martyred at the Grand Kūfa Mosque, people in the Levant kept asking each other if Ali alaihis-salam really went to a mosque, if he really performed the prayer ritual…! They were brainwashed by the derogatory publicity and countless lies promoted and funded, enforced and imposed, by Ali’s arch enemy, Mu`awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan. This is why I have chosen the text below in Arabic and English which testifies to the extent of hatred Mu`awiyah harbored against Commander of the Faithful Ali alaihis-salam who was, in every respect and in every merit, next only to the Holy Prophet of Islam (P). The jealousy of some sahāba filled their hearts with hatred towards Ali alaihis-salam…
سبّ علي (عليه السلام) في زمن معاوية
إنّ معاوية كما يظهرـ من خلال الأدلة الحديثية والشواهد التاريخية ـ لم يستطع إخفاء غيضه وحنقه على علي (عليه السلام) نتيجة ما حصل بينهما في الماضي القريب والبعيد؛ فعمد إلى سبّ أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام) وشتمه والتنقيص منه، كأحد أساليب التنفيس عن ذلك الحنق والغيض، ولم يكتفِ بذلك، بل كان يأمر المسلمين بسبّه وشتمه ويدعوهم إلى الاقتداء به.
سبّ معاوية لأمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام) في الأحاديث الصحيحة
حديث سعد بن أبي وقاص
أخرج مسلم في صحيحه، بسنده عن عامر بن سعد بن أبي وقاص، عن أبيه، قال: «أمر معاوية بن أبي سفيان سعداً، فقال: ما منعك أن تسبّ أبا التراب؟ فقال: أما ما ذكرت ثلاثاً قالهن له رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) فلن أسبّه، لأن تكون لي واحدة منهن أحبّ إليّ من حمر النعم، سمعت رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) يقول له خلفه في بعض مغازيه، فقال له علي: يا رسول الله، خلّفتني مع النساء والصبيان؟ فقال له رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله): أما ترضى أن تكون منّي بمنزلة هارون من موسى إلّا أنه لا نبوة بعدي؟، وسمعته يقول يوم خيبر: لأُعطينّ الراية رجلاً يحبّ الله ورسوله ويحبّه الله ورسوله، قال: فتطاولنا لها، فقال: ادعوا لي علياً. فأُتي به أرمد، فبصق في عينه ودفع الراية إليه، ففتح الله عليه، ولما نزلت هذه الآية: ﴿ فَقُلْ تَعَالَوْا نَدْعُ أَبْنَاءَنَا وَأَبْنَاءَكُمْ﴾، دعا رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) علياً وفاطمة وحسناً وحسيناً، فقال: اللهم هؤلاء أهلي...»[1].
[1] النيسابوري، مسلم بن الحجاج، صحيح مسلم: ج7، ص120. والترمذي، محمد بن عيسى، سنن الترمذي: ج5، ص301، وقد علّق الترمذي على الحديث قائلاً: «هذا حديث حسن صحيح غريب من هذا الوجه».
وهذا الحديث الصحيح طبق قواعد أهل السنّة لوروده في صحيح مسلم، يدلّ دلالة واضحة على أن معاوية أمر الصحابي سعد بن أبي وقّاص بسبّ أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام)، واستغرب من عدم امتثاله لهذا الأمر.
وكذلك فيه دلالة ضمنية واضحة على أنّ معاوية كان ممن يسبّ علياً (عليه السلام) أيضاً؛ فمَن يأمر بالسبّ لا غرابة في أنه بنفسه يتناول علياً بالسبّ والشتم، ويؤيد ذلك رواية ابن ماجه للحديث نفسه.
اعتراف ابن تيمية بدلالة الحديث
اعترف ابن تيمية بدلالة الحديث على أمر معاوية بسب علي (عليه السلام)، حيث قال: «أما حديث سعد لما أمره معاوية بالسبّ فأبى، فقال: ما منعك أن تسبّ علي بن أبي طالب، فقال ثلاث قالهن رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وسلم) فلن أسبه، لأن يكون لي واحدة منهن أحب إليّ من حُمر النعم. الحديث، فهذا حديث صحيح رواه مسلم في صحيحه».
Cursing Ali alaihis-salam during the time of Mu`awiyah
As evidenced by hadīth and historic testimonies, Mu`awiyah could never hide his grudge and animosity towards the Commander of the Faithful alaihis-salam, cursing and belittling him, as one of the means of expressing such grudge and animosity. Yet he was not satisfied with doing all of this; rather, he used to order the Muslims to curse him, to taunt him, calling upon them to follow his (Mu`awyah’s) example (in expressing such hatred towards the man who was next only to the Prophet of Islam (ص) in everything, his wasi and right hand).
Mu`awiya cursing the Commander of the Faithful alaihis-salam according to Sahih ahādīth
According to the hadīth of Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas
In his Sahih, relying on the isnād of `Amir son of Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas who quotes his father, Muslim says, “Mu`awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan summoned Sa`d (ibn Abi Waqqas) and asked him, ‘What prevented you from cursing Abu Turab (Imām Ali alaihis-salam, the father of dust)?’ He said, ‘It is as I stated: three things the Messenger of Allah (P) said to him; therefore, I will never curse him. Had I had one of them (merits), it would have been dearer to me than the best of highly coveted animals: 1) I heard the Messenger of Allah (P) leaving Ali (in charge) during some of his military campaigns, so Ali said to him, ‘O Messenger of Allah! Do you thus leave me behind with the women and children?’ The Messenger of Allah (P), therefore, said to him, ‘Are you not pleased that your status with me is like that of Aaron with Moses save there will be no Prophet after me?’ 2) And I heard him (P) during the Battle of Khaybar saying, ‘I will give the standard to a man who loves Allah and His Messenger and who is loved by Allah and His Messenger,’ so we all coveted it. He (P) said, ‘Summon Ali for me.’ He (Ali) was brought to him (P), and he was arthritic (he had an eye ailment). He (P) spitted in his eye and gave him the standard, whereupon Allah granted him victory. 3) And when this verse was revealed: Come let us call our sons and your sons…, the Messenger of Allah (P) called Ali, Fātima, al-Hassan and al-Hussain then said, ‘O Allah! These are my family members,’” as recorded by al-Naisapuri, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, on p. 120, Vol. 7, of Muslim’s Sahih, and also by al-Tirmithi on p. 301, Vol. 5 of his Sunah. Al-Tirmithi commented on this hadīth saying, “This is a good and authentic hadīth, unusual, though, in this regard.”
This hadīth, which is regarded as authentic according to the rules set by the Sunnis because it is recorded in Muslim’s Sahih, clearly indicates that Mu`awiyah ordered the sahabi Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas to curse the Commander of the Faithful alaihis-salam who expressed his astonishment because he (Sa`d) did not obey this order.
It also carries a clearly implicit evidence that Mu`awiyah was among those who used to curse Ali alaihis-salam. So, one who orders such cursing is not seen as unusual of him if he curses and taunts Ali alaihis-salam. This is supported by Ibn Majah who narrates this same hadīth.
Ibn Taymiyyah admits this hadīth
Ibn Taymiyyah admits this hadīth saying that Mu`awiyah ordered the cursing of Ali alaihis-salam. He said, “As regarding the hadīth of Sa`d (ibn Abi Waqqas) when he refused to obey the order of Mu`awiyah to curse Ali, so he said to him, ‘What prevented you from cursing Ali ibn Abu Tālib?’, he said, ‘Three statements said by the Messenger of Allah (P) did so; therefore, I will never curse him. Had I had (in me) one of them, it would have been dearer to me than the most coveted animals.’ This hadīth is authentic, it is narrated by Muslim in his Sahih.”
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Assalamo Alaikom
In 2015, the management of the Grand Kūfa Mosque decided to invite two dignitaries, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, to cover the Arba`een somber anniversary of Imām al-Hussain alaihis-salam. The first is my dear friend, Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina, and the other was Mr. Patrick Cockburn, famous correspondent for The Independent newspaper whom I met for the first time. My task was to simultaneously interpret the talks between these two dignitaries and other prominent religious and military leaders in Iraq as well as the public. The attachment to this email provides you with more details.
This visit by invitation of these two dignitaries prompted me to write about the Grand Kūfa Mosque and to let it be a Supplement to my book titled A Pictorial Tour of Imām Ali’s Shrine in Arabic, English and Chinese, one of my very best, thus letting the total number of the pages of the latter title reach 480, the maximum then published in color by CreateSpace which no longer exists. I hope you will enjoy reading this Supplement and will share it with others who appreciate it. Not all people appreciate scholarship. Some people do not know what scholarship is, and I do not write for such folks, I simply ignore them.
It is not out of place here to state that the Grand Kūfa Mosque is the place where Commander of the Faithful Ali alaihis-salam ruled the Islamic world, moving the capital from Medina to Kūfa. What is so particular about Kūfa? It is the place where Prophet Noah alaihis-salam built his ark. If you go to the said Mosque, you will see in its midst the place where the tannoor, to which the Holy Qur’an refers, is located. It is the place from which the earth started emptying its underground waters, signaling the start of the great deluge.
The Grand Kūfa Mosque is also the place where Imām Ali alaihis-salam was martyred, and you can go and see the exact spot where this incident took place. When Ali alaihis-salam was martyred at the Grand Kūfa Mosque, people in the Levant kept asking each other if Ali alaihis-salam really went to a mosque, if he really performed the prayer ritual…! They were brainwashed by the derogatory publicity and countless lies promoted and funded, enforced and imposed, by Ali’s arch enemy, Mu`awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan. This is why I have chosen the text below in Arabic and English which testifies to the extent of hatred Mu`awiyah harbored against Commander of the Faithful Ali alaihis-salam who was, in every respect and in every merit, next only to the Holy Prophet of Islam (P). The jealousy of some sahāba filled their hearts with hatred towards Ali alaihis-salam…
سبّ علي (عليه السلام) في زمن معاوية
إنّ معاوية كما يظهرـ من خلال الأدلة الحديثية والشواهد التاريخية ـ لم يستطع إخفاء غيضه وحنقه على علي (عليه السلام) نتيجة ما حصل بينهما في الماضي القريب والبعيد؛ فعمد إلى سبّ أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام) وشتمه والتنقيص منه، كأحد أساليب التنفيس عن ذلك الحنق والغيض، ولم يكتفِ بذلك، بل كان يأمر المسلمين بسبّه وشتمه ويدعوهم إلى الاقتداء به.
سبّ معاوية لأمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام) في الأحاديث الصحيحة
حديث سعد بن أبي وقاص
أخرج مسلم في صحيحه، بسنده عن عامر بن سعد بن أبي وقاص، عن أبيه، قال: «أمر معاوية بن أبي سفيان سعداً، فقال: ما منعك أن تسبّ أبا التراب؟ فقال: أما ما ذكرت ثلاثاً قالهن له رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) فلن أسبّه، لأن تكون لي واحدة منهن أحبّ إليّ من حمر النعم، سمعت رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) يقول له خلفه في بعض مغازيه، فقال له علي: يا رسول الله، خلّفتني مع النساء والصبيان؟ فقال له رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله): أما ترضى أن تكون منّي بمنزلة هارون من موسى إلّا أنه لا نبوة بعدي؟، وسمعته يقول يوم خيبر: لأُعطينّ الراية رجلاً يحبّ الله ورسوله ويحبّه الله ورسوله، قال: فتطاولنا لها، فقال: ادعوا لي علياً. فأُتي به أرمد، فبصق في عينه ودفع الراية إليه، ففتح الله عليه، ولما نزلت هذه الآية: ﴿ فَقُلْ تَعَالَوْا نَدْعُ أَبْنَاءَنَا وَأَبْنَاءَكُمْ﴾، دعا رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) علياً وفاطمة وحسناً وحسيناً، فقال: اللهم هؤلاء أهلي...»[1].
[1] النيسابوري، مسلم بن الحجاج، صحيح مسلم: ج7، ص120. والترمذي، محمد بن عيسى، سنن الترمذي: ج5، ص301، وقد علّق الترمذي على الحديث قائلاً: «هذا حديث حسن صحيح غريب من هذا الوجه».
وهذا الحديث الصحيح طبق قواعد أهل السنّة لوروده في صحيح مسلم، يدلّ دلالة واضحة على أن معاوية أمر الصحابي سعد بن أبي وقّاص بسبّ أمير المؤمنين (عليه السلام)، واستغرب من عدم امتثاله لهذا الأمر.
وكذلك فيه دلالة ضمنية واضحة على أنّ معاوية كان ممن يسبّ علياً (عليه السلام) أيضاً؛ فمَن يأمر بالسبّ لا غرابة في أنه بنفسه يتناول علياً بالسبّ والشتم، ويؤيد ذلك رواية ابن ماجه للحديث نفسه.
اعتراف ابن تيمية بدلالة الحديث
اعترف ابن تيمية بدلالة الحديث على أمر معاوية بسب علي (عليه السلام)، حيث قال: «أما حديث سعد لما أمره معاوية بالسبّ فأبى، فقال: ما منعك أن تسبّ علي بن أبي طالب، فقال ثلاث قالهن رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وسلم) فلن أسبه، لأن يكون لي واحدة منهن أحب إليّ من حُمر النعم. الحديث، فهذا حديث صحيح رواه مسلم في صحيحه».
Cursing Ali alaihis-salam during the time of Mu`awiyah
As evidenced by hadīth and historic testimonies, Mu`awiyah could never hide his grudge and animosity towards the Commander of the Faithful alaihis-salam, cursing and belittling him, as one of the means of expressing such grudge and animosity. Yet he was not satisfied with doing all of this; rather, he used to order the Muslims to curse him, to taunt him, calling upon them to follow his (Mu`awyah’s) example (in expressing such hatred towards the man who was next only to the Prophet of Islam (ص) in everything, his wasi and right hand).
Mu`awiya cursing the Commander of the Faithful alaihis-salam according to Sahih ahādīth
According to the hadīth of Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas
In his Sahih, relying on the isnād of `Amir son of Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas who quotes his father, Muslim says, “Mu`awiyah ibn Abu Sufyan summoned Sa`d (ibn Abi Waqqas) and asked him, ‘What prevented you from cursing Abu Turab (Imām Ali alaihis-salam, the father of dust)?’ He said, ‘It is as I stated: three things the Messenger of Allah (P) said to him; therefore, I will never curse him. Had I had one of them (merits), it would have been dearer to me than the best of highly coveted animals: 1) I heard the Messenger of Allah (P) leaving Ali (in charge) during some of his military campaigns, so Ali said to him, ‘O Messenger of Allah! Do you thus leave me behind with the women and children?’ The Messenger of Allah (P), therefore, said to him, ‘Are you not pleased that your status with me is like that of Aaron with Moses save there will be no Prophet after me?’ 2) And I heard him (P) during the Battle of Khaybar saying, ‘I will give the standard to a man who loves Allah and His Messenger and who is loved by Allah and His Messenger,’ so we all coveted it. He (P) said, ‘Summon Ali for me.’ He (Ali) was brought to him (P), and he was arthritic (he had an eye ailment). He (P) spitted in his eye and gave him the standard, whereupon Allah granted him victory. 3) And when this verse was revealed: Come let us call our sons and your sons…, the Messenger of Allah (P) called Ali, Fātima, al-Hassan and al-Hussain then said, ‘O Allah! These are my family members,’” as recorded by al-Naisapuri, Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, on p. 120, Vol. 7, of Muslim’s Sahih, and also by al-Tirmithi on p. 301, Vol. 5 of his Sunah. Al-Tirmithi commented on this hadīth saying, “This is a good and authentic hadīth, unusual, though, in this regard.”
This hadīth, which is regarded as authentic according to the rules set by the Sunnis because it is recorded in Muslim’s Sahih, clearly indicates that Mu`awiyah ordered the sahabi Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas to curse the Commander of the Faithful alaihis-salam who expressed his astonishment because he (Sa`d) did not obey this order.
It also carries a clearly implicit evidence that Mu`awiyah was among those who used to curse Ali alaihis-salam. So, one who orders such cursing is not seen as unusual of him if he curses and taunts Ali alaihis-salam. This is supported by Ibn Majah who narrates this same hadīth.
Ibn Taymiyyah admits this hadīth
Ibn Taymiyyah admits this hadīth saying that Mu`awiyah ordered the cursing of Ali alaihis-salam. He said, “As regarding the hadīth of Sa`d (ibn Abi Waqqas) when he refused to obey the order of Mu`awiyah to curse Ali, so he said to him, ‘What prevented you from cursing Ali ibn Abu Tālib?’, he said, ‘Three statements said by the Messenger of Allah (P) did so; therefore, I will never curse him. Had I had (in me) one of them, it would have been dearer to me than the most coveted animals.’ This hadīth is authentic, it is narrated by Muslim in his Sahih.”
Wassalamo Alaikom
Yasin T. al-Jibouri
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Amazon (www.amazon.com) lists and markets most of our books which, Masha-Allah, are now available in more than
Harvard University’s Pluralism Project conducted a long research on Islam in America which took it more than twenty years to complete, then it issued its “Islam in America” Report which traces the history of the presence of Muslims in North America from A.D. 1178 (before Christopher Columbus had discovered America) and up to the year 2012. I am honored by this report mentioning my name twice: once in the most significant events of the year 1973 and the other in those of the year 1982. You have 3 options: 1) I will be glad to send you a copy of this report in PDF format, or 2) you can review it by visiting my Academia.edu web page the Link for which is above.
In case you consider acquiring your own copy of my book about the Prophet of Islam, here is the Link to its Amazon ad (a free preview of some of its pages is now available Online):
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"ANTI-SEMITIC" or - "ANTI-HUMAN"? That is the Question: A study in Zionist barbarism and the blind support of the U.S. for "Israel"
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بِاللَّهِ، عَلَيْهِ تَوَكَّلْتُ وَإِلَيْهِ أُنِيبُ وَمَا تَوْفِيقِي إِلاَّ "Surely my success comes only from Allah; upon Him have I relied, and to Him do I return" (Qur'an, 11:88).
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