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other al‐Hadi. Ja‘far b. Qaddama[3] has narrated about her, saying: “Ghadir was the best of the
people in beauty and singing. Al‐Hadi loved her very much. One day while she was singing
[1] Al‐Bidaya wa al‐Nihaya, vol. 10, p. 26.
[2] Thimar al‐Qulub, p. 428.
[3] Concerning Ja'far b. Qaddama, al‐Khateeb al‐Baghdadi has said: "He is among the Shaykhs and
religious scholars of the writers. He has abundant literature and good knowledge. He has many
books. He died in the year 319." Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 7, p. 207.
him a song, a thought came to his mind. So one of his special associates who were present there
asked him about that, and he answered him: “I think that I will die, and that my brother Harun will
marry my slave girl after he undertakes the caliphate after me.” So it was said to him: “I seek
refuge for you with Allah, and that He may advance all (people) before you.” So he ordered his
brother Harun to be brought before him. He told him about the thought came to his mind, and he
answered him with that which was a must on of that. However, he said: “I am not satisfied until
you swear (by Allah) that when I die you should not marry her.” He swore by Allah. Yet al‐Hadi
took a full oath from him, that he should perform the hajj on foot, divorce his wives, release his
slaves, and to dedicate his possessions to charitable purposes. Then he ordered her to swear by
Allah just as he did to his brother, and she swore by Allah. One month after that, al‐Hadi died and
al‐Rashid undertook the caliphate. He sent for Ghadir and proposed to her. So she asked him:
“What shall we do toward the oath?” He answered: “I will expiate on behalf of all and perform the
hajj on foot.” She responded to him, and he married her. He loved her so much that he put her
head in his lap. When she slept, he did not move until she woke. One day, while she was sleeping,
she woke in terror. She wept, and he asked her about her condition. She said to him: “I dreamt of
your brother and heard him saying to me:
You have broken my promise after I had neighbored the inhabitants of the cemeteries.
You swore before me through your lying, dissolute oath.
And you, Ghadira, have married my brother. Truthful was he who named you Ghadir.
You have become among the men of tribulation and one of the women having eyes with a marked
contrast between white and black, and who go and come.
The new mate will not enjoy you; and the calamities will not turn away from you.
And you will follow me before the morning.
By Allah, Commander of the faithful, it is as if that I heard them, and as if that I wrote them in my
heart. I have forgotten no word of them. So al‐Rashid said to her: “This is a confused dream.” So
she said: “No.” She became disordered and shook all over until she died before him.[1] This is an
example of his fondness of slave girls and his disobedience to the Islamic Law through his breaking
the oath he gave to his brother for that he would not marry her. Besides he opposed the Islamic
Law when he married her because she was in her waiting period; Islam has made that forbidden
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