Self-Flagellation (Matam / Zanjeer/Qamah Zani) | Hubeali Skip to content Hubeali Menu Topics Quran Tafseer Books Urdu Books English Books Sermons School of Wilayat Search for: Search Button Home Articles Self-Flagellation (Matam / Zanjeer/Qamah Zani) Details Sidebar Table of contents Self-Flagellation in love of Ahl Al-Bayt-asws: Love of Ahl Al-Bayt-asws will always Benefit one Appendix: Syeda Sharika tul-Hussain-asws struck her head against carriage Self-Flagellation (Matam / Zanjeer/Qamah Zani) Download PDF There are mixed views when it comes to Qamah-Zani – Tatbir (Self-Flagellation) so it is asked: Does a person get rewards for doing Tatbir to express his/her grief on the day when one of the Infallible(s) were martyred?
Self-Flagellation in love of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws : إِخْوَانِي الذَّاهِبُونَ فَحَقَ لَنَا أَنْ نَظْمَأَ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ نَعَضَّ الْأَيْدِي عَلَى فِرَاقِهِمْ Amir ul-Momineen – asws says (out of grief) as reported in Nahjul Balagha: These are my – asws comrades who have departed. We should be justified if we feel eager for them and bite (wound) our hands in their separation .
(This is for just comrades which were martyred during the Battle of Saffin, what about if one hits Qamah in grief on the day of martyrdom of Ahl Al-Bayt – asws ?) [1] Also Mohammed Baqir Al-Majlisi reports from a reliable book, in a long Hadith: أَقُولُ رَأَيْتُ فِي بَعْضِ الْكُتُبِ الْمُعْتَبَرَةِ رُوِيَ مُرْسَلًا عَنْ مُسْلِمٍ الْجَصَّاصِ قَالَ: دَعَانِي ابْنُ زِيَادٍ لِإِصْلَاحِ دَارِ الْإِمَارَةِ بِالْكُوفَةِ فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا أُجَصِّصُ الْأَبْوَابَ وَ إِذَا أَنَا بِالزَّعَقَاتِ قَدِ ارْتَفَعَتْ مِنْ جَنَبَاتِ الْكُوفَةِ فَأَقْبَلْتُ عَلَى خَادِمٍ كَانَ مَعَنَا فَقُلْتُ مَا لِي أَرَى الْكُوفَةَ تَضِجُّ قَالَ السَّاعَةَ أَتَوْا بِرَأْسِ خَارِجِيٍّ خَرَجَ عَلَى يَزِيدَ I (Majlisi) am saying, ‘I saw in one of the reliable books being reported by an unbroken chain from Muslim Al-Jassas who said, ‘Ibn Ziyad -la called me to repair the government building at Al-Kufa.
While I was plastering the doors, and there were screams to have risen from the sides of Al-Kufa. I went to a servant who was with us and said, ‘What is the matter I see Al-Kufa to be clamouring?’ He said, ‘They are coming now with the head of the Kharijite who had come out against Yazeed -la ’…..