Then how is it possible for a believer to be born in a group...

Then how is it possible for a believer to be born in a group all of whose members are cursed and that too by the one who is considered the most perfect (the Holy Prophet)?[^2] (2) Hujjatul Islam Maulana Sayyid Rahat Husayn Sahab Qibla Gopalpuri has written in his book, Rafaut Tabaas: “Ibn Dawood (a.r.) in his Rijal has categorized him as follows: ‘Abul Faraj Isfahani; Aghani Kabeer , no tradition is taken from it. It is written in Fihrist that he was a Zaidi.

May Allah curse him.”[^3] Allamah Hilli has also included him among the weak narrators. One of our ancient scholars, Hasan bin Husayn has called him, ‘the greatest liar’.

Sadr has said regarding the Aghani specially that: Even if the above-mentioned point had not been mentioned against him, I still would have considered him a forger and an accursed one due to his reports in Aghani .[^4] Allamah Sayyid Sibtul Hasan Hansavi writes in his journal, Kashful Dahiya regarding Aghani that: The book of Aghani is absolutely unreliable.

Abul Faraj has written it in the style of traditionists and historians but it is a collection of false and untrue things, which was written to appease the Merwanid rulers of Andalusia. Allamah Ibn Hajar Asqalani writes about him: “Abul Faraj Isfahani was the greatest liar.

He used to purchase a lot of story books and base traditions on them.” Now read the confession of Abul Faraj Isfahani, himself, about this books: “I have done this without any restraint although I detested that my writings should contain such illogical things that would endure forever and be associated with my name.” But it is regrettable that due to his greed for pelf and position he accepted all this for the sake of pleasing the Umayyads, and he has put the collar of eternal humiliation around his neck.

This can be understood from the above statement as well as the confession of Abul Faraj Isfahani himself. Shar[^5] Lakhnavi who has informed about his original nature in his nom-de-plume itself has brought these sparks of mischief from Arabic to Urdu world and Hafiz ‘Ali Bahadar is blowing to make them into flames although the Jawab Shar has put such dew upon them that they could never be ignited.

This was the historical value of those incidents, now let us apply logic to them and see whether they don’t prove that: “It seems Sakina had made her home a stage for dramatics and poetics. Such a woman could never have any connection with religiosity. She must have been deprived of all shame and dignity.