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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Tragedy of al-Zahra’: Doubts and Responses Al-Muhsin In Texts And Legacies Did al-Muhsin Die Young?! It is obvious that the subject of killing al-Muhsin embarrasses the scholars and dignitaries of a huge proportion of the Muslims who hold allegiance to those who played a part in what al-Zahra’ (sa) had to go through. Yes, it will embarrass them as well as those who follow or support them.

And it will embarrass them in the fields of debates and deduction with others. For this reason, they felt that they had to find a solution for this problem which they faced. Some of them tried to deny the existence of al-Muhsin altogether.

‘’Umar Abu al-Nasr has said, “Historians have disputed among themselves about his existence, as we have already stated, although al-Ya’qubi and al-Mas’udi as well as others stress his existence.”[^1] He goes on to add, “Some historians deny the existence of al-Muhsin, but others, such as al-Mas’udi and Abul Fida’, emphasize it.”[^2] You may find few and rare allusions like this which we would not like to trace.

Since this denial is considered as a serious risk, and there is no sufficient justification to insist on it, there is also no room to deny that an attack was launched on the house of al-Zahra’ (sa) then the Commander of the Faithful Ali (as) was taken out by force from that house, the eyes were directed to other attempts of a different nature aiming at distancing the ghost and means of violence from reaching the mentality of ordinary people.

One of the manifestations of such a trend is that a group of people has preferred to remain silent with regard to mentioning the name of al-Muhsin with the ability to seek an excuse for such silence by saying that it touches on discussing who from among Fatima’s offspring lived and who did not. But all of this was never sufficient to reap the anticipated results. The existence of al-Muhsin among the offspring of al-Zahra’ (sa) is like a fire lit in a lighthouse or the sun at midday.

It is not easy to ignore or deny it. Some people resorted to distancing the allegations from those who caused the killing of this oppressed fetus and dared to insult the Head of the Women of Mankind. They did so in a clever way which implies a denial and invalidates the story that a miscarriage took place by denying the subject altogether.