Buring the Daughters Alive – Qays bin Asim
Reading Time: 3 minutes The first people who resorted to the practice of burying their daughters were the tribe named Bani Tamim. No’man bin Munzir, the ruler of Iraq, […]
Oppression (Zulm)
Imam Kazim (as) – Martydom 2
Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘Amrū b. Wāqid, said: [Al-Sindi b. Shāhik summoned me at the night. I was in Baghdad. I feared that he would do evil for me, […]
The assassination of Imam ar-Redha
Reading Time: 2 minutes When al-Ma’moon was unable to bear Imam ar-Redha (a.s) any longer, he decided to assassinate him. He invited him and offered him a cluster of […]
Martydom of Qanbar (ar)
Reading Time: < 1 minute Imam al-Hadi (a.s.) talked to his companions about some important Islamic events that happened at the first Islamic age. One of them was the killing […]
Mutawakkil Destroyed the Shrine of Imam hussain (as)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Al-Mutawakkil bore hatred and spite against Imam Ali (a.s.). He denied him and declared his hatred and despise towards him openly. He made one of […]
Lamentation by ‘Ali at Fatimah’s graveside
Reading Time: 3 minutes Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn al-Husayn reported to me from his father who reported from Ahmad ibn Idrees, who reported from Muhammad ibn Abd […]
Miqdad and Abdurahman ibn Awf
Reading Time: 2 minutes He said: Abul Hasan ‘Ali ibn Muhammad al-Katib reported to me from al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali al-Za’farani, from Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Thaqafi, from Muhammad ibn ‘Ali, […]
Abu Dharr’s plain talk
Reading Time: 2 minutes Abu al-Jahdham al-Azdi, from his father (who was from the people of Sham),said: When Uthman expelled Abu Dharr from Madinah to Damascus, he (i.e. Abu […]
Uthman and Banu Umayya
Reading Time: 3 minutes Muaz ibn Afra’ al-Ansari said: Uthman ibn Affan once sent for al-Arqam ibn Abdillah, who was the treasurer of the Baitul Mal of the Muslims, […]
“I have not known of an assembly of people worse than you….” said Fatimah (as)
Reading Time: < 1 minute Marwan ibn Uthman said: When people swore the allegiance on the hands of Abu Bakr, ‘Ali (as), al-Zubair and al-Miqdad entered the house of Fatimah, […]