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uried.[1] Al‐Rashid said: “I have decided to exhume and burn him.”[2] The Muslims at that black
period were afraid of mentioning the laudable deeds of Ahl al‐Bayt, the members of the house,
peace be on them. No poet dared to praise them and lament for them. If he had done that, he
would have subject himself to vengeance and torture. For example, Ibn Herema[3] praised them
in his following poetry lines:
Whatever I am blamed for love for them, indeed I love Fatima’s children.
The children of the daughter of him who brought the clear verses, the religion, and the standing
Sunna. He was asked about the one who said them, and he denied that he had not said them. He
cursed the one who said them, so his son criticized him for that he cursed himself, and he had
come to know that he had said them. However, he said to him: “O my little son, this is better for
one than that Ibn Qehteba takes him.”[4] The people turned a way from mentioning Ahl al‐Bayt,
the members of the house, peace be on them, out of fear of Harun. Besides some of those who
renounced Islam and turned away from it openly cursed them and criticized them, that they might
seek nearness to al‐Rashid. An example of that is Merwan b. Abi Hefsa disparaged the dignity of
Fatim, mistress of the women of the world, peace be on her. He said that she ground with a hand
mill, and that Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, married her to ‘Ali, who was
miserable and poor. Accordingly, Ibn al‐
[1] Abu al‐Farajj al‐Asfahani, al‐Aghani, vol. 12, p. 20.
[2] Al‐Shi'r wa al‐Shu'ra', p. 258.
[3] Ibn Herema is Abu Ishaq Ibrahim b. 'Ali al‐Qarashi al‐Fihri al‐Medani. He is a creative poet. He
lived through two generations. This has been mentioned in the book al‐Kuna wa al‐Alqab, vol. 1,
pp. 435‐436.
[4] Abu al‐Farajj al‐Asfahani, al‐Aghani, vol. 4, pp. 109‐110.
Hajjajj[1] refuted his words, saying:
Your statement on Fatima, the chaste, belongs to someone very fond of and fascinated by
hostility.
You have reviled her because of the hand mill and the grains she ground, while your food is still
grains not ground. And you said that Allah’s Apostle married her to a miserable one, while she was
miserable, daughter of a miserable one.[2]
Merwan b. Abi Hefsa violated all the Islamic sacred things and values to seek nearness to Harun.
He attacked the dearest of all the people to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family, and
the most loveable to him, his pure part, mistress of the women of the world (Fatima), peace be on
her, that he might attain something of Harun’s comfort and world. As for the attributes through
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