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the Day of Resurrection when you meet my grandfather, Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and<br />

his family, and you killed sixty persons from among his grandsons? So I shook all over with fear. A<br />

violent shock befell me, so the servant looked at me angrily and rebuked me. For this reason I<br />

killed that old man and threw him in that well.<br />

Then he turned to ‘Ubayd Allah and asked him: “Do my fasting and my prayer benefit me while I<br />

killed sixty persons from among the children of Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his<br />

family? I have no doubt that I will be immortal in the fire!”[1]<br />

If the ascription of this massacre to him was correct,[2] then it would indicate that he had no faith<br />

in Allah and the Last Day. For he violated the things made forbidden by Allah and unjustly shed<br />

the blood of the family of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family.<br />

His demolishing the Shrine of al‐Husayn Al‐Rashid was unable to stand and flamed up with rage<br />

when he saw the Muslim masses frequently and in groups visit the shrine of the plant of the<br />

sweet basil of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family, and master of the youth of the<br />

Garden Imam al‐Husayn, peace be on him. So he ordered the custodian of the Holy Shrine, Ibn Abi<br />

Dawud, that he might wreak his wrath and torture upon him. When he stood before him, he said<br />

to him angrily:<br />

“What has made you live in al‐Hayr?”[3]<br />

“Indeed, al‐Hasan b. Rashid[4] has put me in that place,” answered Ibn Abi Dawud.<br />

[1] Bihar al‐Anwar, vol. 11, pp. 285‐286. 'Uyun Akhbar al‐Rida.<br />

[2] It has been mentioned in the books al‐Tabari's Tarikh and al‐Nijum al‐Zahira: "Hameed b.<br />

Qehteba died in the year 158 A. H., and the caliphate of Harun al‐Rashid was in the year 170." This<br />

opposes that the event took place during the days of al‐Rashid. The nearest viewpoint to<br />

correctness is that this massacre took place during the days of al‐Mansur.<br />

[3] In the books Mu'jam al‐Buldan and al‐Sihah it has been mentioned: "Al‐Hayr is the name of the<br />

Sacred City of Kerbela'"<br />

[4] Al‐Hasan b. Rashid is among those who narrated the traditions of Imam Ja'far al‐Sadiq, peace<br />

be on him. He was among the Shi'ite great figures.<br />

So al‐Rashid shook his head and ordered him to be brought immediately, saying: “I think that this<br />

has been planned by al‐Hasan.” When he stood before him, he asked him: “What made you put<br />

this man (Ibn Abi Dawud) in al‐Hayr?” Al‐Hasan asked him for sympathy, saying: “May Allah have<br />

mercy on him who placed him in al‐Hayr. Um Musa[1] ordered me to place him in it and to give<br />

him thirty dirhams a month.”<br />

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