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'''Al-Thaʿlabiyya''' (Arabic:الثَعلَبیَّة) is a station on the way between Mecca and [[Kufa]] where [[Imam Hussain]] stayed for a rest before continuing his journey to [[Shuquq]]. | '''Al-Thaʿlabiyya''' (Arabic:الثَعلَبیَّة) is a station on the way between Mecca and [[Kufa]] where [[Imam Hussain]] stayed for a rest before continuing his journey to [[Shuquq]]. | ||
== Location == | ==Location== | ||
Al-Tha’labiyya was named after a man from Banu Asad named Tha’labah who had been there and who was able to dig a well in it. It is one stage after [[al-Shuquq]] for one travelling from Kufa to Mecca as we are told by Mu’jam al-Buldan. In Wafa’ al-Wafa’<ref>al-Samhudi's, Wafa’ al-Wafa’, p. 35, Vol. 2</ref> , it is an area located near a watering place called al-Tha’labiyya. In al-Ya’qubi's book Al-Buldan, and also according to the offset edition of Ibn Rastah's book Al-A’laq al-Nafisa, it is a city surrounded by a bulwark. | Al-Tha’labiyya was named after a man from Banu Asad named Tha’labah who had been there and who was able to dig a well in it. It is one stage after [[al-Shuquq]] for one travelling from Kufa to Mecca as we are told by Mu’jam al-Buldan. In Wafa’ al-Wafa’<ref>al-Samhudi's, Wafa’ al-Wafa’, p. 35, Vol. 2</ref> , it is an area located near a watering place called al-Tha’labiyya. In al-Ya’qubi's book Al-Buldan, and also according to the offset edition of Ibn Rastah's book Al-A’laq al-Nafisa, it is a city surrounded by a bulwark. | ||
== Events == | ==Events== | ||
At al-Tha’labiyya, a man came to Imam Al-Hussain and asked him about the meaning of the verse saying, | At al-Tha’labiyya, a man came to Imam Al-Hussain and asked him about the meaning of the verse saying, | ||
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“An Imam calls others for guidance and is answered positively, while another imam calls others to misguidance and is also answered positively: this group shall be in Paradise, and that shall be in hell, and it is the explanation of the verse saying, | “An Imam calls others for guidance and is answered positively, while another imam calls others to misguidance and is also answered positively: this group shall be in Paradise, and that shall be in hell, and it is the explanation of the verse saying, | ||
"A party shall be in Paradise, and another shall be in the burning fire' (Qur’an, 42:7).” | |||
At the same place, a man from Kufa met him. The Imam said to him, “By Allah! Had I met you in Medina, I would have showed you the marks Gabriel had left in our house and the place where he used to descend with revelation to my grandfather, O brother of Kufa! It is from us that knowledge initiates. Have they become learned while we became ignorant? This shall never be.” <ref>al-Saffar, Basa‘ir al-Darajat, p. 3. It is also recorded in al-Kafi's Usul, in a chapter headed “Knowledge Derived from the Fountainhead of the Prophet's Family.”</ref> | At the same place, a man from Kufa met him. The Imam said to him, “By Allah! Had I met you in Medina, I would have showed you the marks Gabriel had left in our house and the place where he used to descend with revelation to my grandfather, O brother of Kufa! It is from us that knowledge initiates. Have they become learned while we became ignorant? This shall never be.” <ref>al-Saffar, Basa‘ir al-Darajat, p. 3. It is also recorded in al-Kafi's Usul, in a chapter headed “Knowledge Derived from the Fountainhead of the Prophet's Family.”</ref> | ||
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Bajir, of al-Tha’labiyya, narrates saying, “Al-Hussain passed by us when I was a young lad. My brother said to him, ‘O son of the daughter of the Messenger of Allah! I see your followers to be very small in number.' With his whip he pointed to a saddlebag a man was carrying [for him] and said, ‘This is full of letters.”<ref>al-Thahsbi, Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’, Vol. 3, p. 205.</ref> | Bajir, of al-Tha’labiyya, narrates saying, “Al-Hussain passed by us when I was a young lad. My brother said to him, ‘O son of the daughter of the Messenger of Allah! I see your followers to be very small in number.' With his whip he pointed to a saddlebag a man was carrying [for him] and said, ‘This is full of letters.”<ref>al-Thahsbi, Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’, Vol. 3, p. 205.</ref> | ||
== Source == | ==Source== | ||
* [http://alhassanain.org/Maqtal%20al-Hussain%20Martyrdom%20Epic%20of%20Imam%20al-Hussain%20('a)/Maqtal_al-_Hussain_Martyrdom_Epic_of_Imam_al-Hussain_('a)_html/Maqtal_al-_Hussain_Martyrdom_Epic_of_Imam_al-Hussain_('a).htm Abd al Razzaq al-Muqarram, Maqtal al-Hussain: Martyrdom Epic of Imam al-Hussain] | *[http://alhassanain.org/Maqtal%20al-Hussain%20Martyrdom%20Epic%20of%20Imam%20al-Hussain%20('a)/Maqtal_al-_Hussain_Martyrdom_Epic_of_Imam_al-Hussain_('a)_html/Maqtal_al-_Hussain_Martyrdom_Epic_of_Imam_al-Hussain_('a).htm Abd al Razzaq al-Muqarram, Maqtal al-Hussain: Martyrdom Epic of Imam al-Hussain] | ||
== References == | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
[[Category:Imam’s Route from Mecca to Kufa]] | [[Category:Imam’s Route from Mecca to Kufa]] | ||
[[Category:Battle of Karbala]] | [[Category:Battle of Karbala]] | ||
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