Ali bin Ibrahim has narrated through authentic chains of...

Ali bin Ibrahim has narrated through authentic chains of narrators that

Abdullah bin Bukair asked Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.): “May I be sacrificed

for you, did the Messenger of Allah (S) at anytime order the killing of

Jarih? Did he know that he was wrongly blamed for it or not? And the

Almighty Allah only to prove this had saved him from the sword of Amirul

The Imam said: The Messenger of Allah (S) was knowing that it was an

allegation but he commanded thus due to some exigency; if he had ordered

it seriously, Amirul Momineen (a.s.) would not have returned without

killing him. But he only commanded thus so that when Ayesha comes to

know that an innocent person is being killed she would repent from her

sins. But Ayesha did not recant, and didn’t find the killing of an

[^1]: The author says: That which can be concluded from the traditional

reports is that Umm Kulthum married and died before the marriage and

death of Ruqaiyyah. This report is more authentic and another version is

also famous and a group of Shia and Sunni scholars believe that they

were not real daughters of Lady Khadija, but were daughters of her

sister. It should be clear that opponents of Shia object that if Uthman

had not been a Muslim, the Holy Prophet (S) would not have married two

of his daughters to him. This objection is invalid due to some reasons:

Firstly, this could have been before the command arrived prohibiting

giving the hand of daughters to disbelievers. So by the consensus of

opponents, Zainab was married to Abul Aas when he was a disbeliever and

in the same way Ruqaiyyah and Umm Kulthum were married to the opponents,

Atba and Atiq due to their fame in the community, but who were

disbelievers, before marrying them to Uthman. The second possibility is

that there was no controversy in Uthman being a Muslim at the time the

Holy Prophet (S) married his daughters to him. If he had in the end

denied the Nass of the Caliphate of Amirul Momineen (a.s.) and did all

that makes one a disbeliever and he became a disbeliever and an

apostate. The third possibility is most accurate that they were among

the hypocrites and they made a display of Islam due to fear and greed,

but they were actually disbelievers. And the Almighty Allah on the basis

of divine wisdom had commanded the Holy Prophet (S) to act according to

their apparent Islam. And he must include them among Muslims in all