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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Then I was Guided The and the Raziyat Yawm al Khamis (The Calamity of Thursday) Briefly the story is as follows: The were meeting in the Messenger's house, three days before he died. He ordered them to bring him a bone and an ink pot so that he could write a statement for them which would prevent them from straying from the right path, but the differed among themselves and some of them disobeyed the Prophet and accused him of talking nonsense.

The Messenger of Allah became very angry and ordered them out of his house without issuing any statement. This is the story in some details: Ibn Abbas said: Thursday, and what a Thursday that was! The Messenger's pain became very severe, and he said, "Come here, I will write you a document which will prevent you from straying from the right path." But Umar said that the Prophet was under the spell of the pain, and that they had the Qur'an which was sufficient being the Book of Allah.

then differed and quarreled amongst themselves, some of them agreeing with what the Prophet said, while others supported Umar's view.

When the debate became heated and the noise became louder, the Messenger of Allah said to them, "Leave me alone." Ibn Abbas said: “The disaster was that the disagreement among the prevented the Messenger from writing that document for them.”[^1] The incident is correct and there is no doubt about its authenticity, for it was cited by the Shi’i scholars and their historians in their books, as well as by the Sunni scholars and historians in their books.

As I was committed to consider the incident, I found myself bewildered by Umar's behavior regarding the order of the Messenger of Allah. And what an order it was! "To prevent the nation from going astray", for undoubtedly that statement would have had something new in it for the Muslims and would have left them without a shadow of doubt.

Now let us leave the points of view of the Shi’a, that is that the Messenger wanted to write the name of ‘Ali as his successor, and that Umar realized this, so he prevented it. Perhaps because they do not convince us initially with that hypothesis, but can we find a sensible explanation to this hurtful incident which angered the Messenger so much that he ordered them to leave, and made Ibn Abbas cry until he made the stones wet from his tears and called it a "great disaster"?