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message which brought their glory and leadership to an end. 1 Nor do they
hesitate in claiming that they always harboured enmity for the Banū Hāshim and
that Muʿāwiyah I directed it to the Ahl al-Bayt specifically and exuded all of
it against Amīr al-Muʾminīn and his children; this enmity was further embodied
by Yazīd in the horrendous massacre of Karbalāʾ when he killed the senior of the
Ahl al-Bayt and its leader al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī. 2
Some of their contemporary scholars even went onto author books in this regard, 3
a practice not uncommon for the Shīʿah, for it is well known regarding them that
they endeavour to offend their opponents in every way possible, including lying.
As a result many a time they become victims of open contradiction; hence here
they claim that the dispute between these two tribes started the first day their
forefathers came into this world, and in another place they impugn the lineage
of Umayyah and claim that he was bastard. 4 If the latter is true then would there
be any basis to claiming that enmity between them was destined since eternity,
whereas Umayyah was not the son of ʿAbd al-Shams at all.
However, what is really shocking is that a Sunnī scholar like al-Muqrīzī 5 is deluded
by these claims and assumptions and authors a book in which he gathers all the
1 Aṣl al-Shīʿah wa Uṣūluhā p. 46.
2 Jihād al-Imām al-Sajjād p. 63.
3 Ṣadr al-Dīn Sharaf al-Dīn: Hāshim wa Umayyah and Ḥusayn al-Shākirī: Hāshim wa ʿAbd Shams.
4 Hāshim wa ʿAbd al-Shams p. 118.
5 Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baʿlī. A scholar who had fair share in many sciences but was
specifically known for his expertise in history. He was known as Ibn al-Muqrīzī, an attribution to a street
in Baʿlabak which was known as ‘the street of the Maqārizah’, where from his grandfather migrated to
Egypt. He was born in Cairo in 766 A.H. He was first a Ḥanafī and then became a Shāfiʿī. He passed away
in 845 A.H. The following are some of his works: al-Khuṭaṭ, Imtāʿ al-Asmāʾ, Īqāẓ al-Ḥunafāʾ bi Akhbār al-
Aʾimmah al-Fāṭimiyyīn al-Khulafāʾ. See: al-Ḍawʾ al-Lāmiʿ 2/21; Shadharāt al-Dhahab 7/254; al-Aʿlām 1/177.
Note: In my view al-Muqrīzī had slight leanings toward Shīʿism. This I say for the following reasons:
Firstly, he authored books regarding the virtues of the Ahl al-Bayt in which he gathered all sorts of
authentic, weak and even fabricated narrations without any scrutiny, like the books Faḍl ʾᾹl al-Bayt
and al-Nizāʿ wa al-Takhāṣum. continued ...
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