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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Tragedy of al-Zahra’: Doubts and Responses Texts And Legacies From The Fourteen Infallible Ones Traditions Regarding How al-Zahra’ (sa) was Persecuted There are numerous traditions cited by the Infallible Ones clearly outlining how al-Zahra’ (sa) was persecuted.
They deal with how her house was assaulted with the intention to burn it, 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 have already pointed out.
We would like here to cite a large number of texts narrated by the Infallible Ones (as) 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 as saying that ‘Abu ‘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 said that Muhammed ibn Munqir cites Ziyad ibn al-Munthir saying that Shurahbil quotes Umm al-Fadl daughter of al-’Abbas said: When the Messenger of Allah 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! We weep not to gain anything but to our departure from us; we weep for the cessation of the report from Heaven, and we weep over the nation after you.
He said: You surely will be the oppressed and the downtrodden after me.”[^1] What Sacred Texts Narrate Abu Bakr al-Shirazi, with regards to what is revealed in the Qur’an with reference to the Commander of the Faithful (as), 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!