Maktabah Al-Imām Al-Ghazālī

    From the Islamic conquest to the rise of the Safavid dynasty Before the Safavid dynasty, from 21 AH to 907 AH (642 CE to 1501 CE), Islam entered Persia during the reign of Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu, and Iran became part of the Islamic state.     For the next nine centuries, most of Iran's population adhered to Sunni Islam, and Shafi'i and Hanafi schools of thought were widespread in most cities, while limited Shi'a communities existed in certain areas.      The most prominent Shi'a centres before the Safavids were Qom, Kashan, Rayy (at certain times), Tabaristan (parts of it), and parts of Khorasan.      Despite the existence of these centres, most of Iran's major cities, such as Isfahan, Shiraz, Tabriz, Hamadan, Qazvin, Nishapur, Yazd, and Kerman, remained predominantly Sunni until the beginning of the 16th century. Shia States Preceding the Safavids ·        The Buyid State (334...

1.       Shamr bin Dhil Jaushan     2.       Sinan bin Anas an-Nakha’ī These are the 2 people directly involved in the killing of the blessed and beloved grandson of Sayyidunā Muḥammad Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. The people who invited Sayyidunā Ḥusayn raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu over to Kufa, the Shia, were the ones who abandoned him and deceived him. Many of the people who wrote letters to Sayyidunā Ḥusayn raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu were involved in the killing. Muḥsin al-Amīn, a Shia scholar, states that 20 000 people had pledged allegiance to Sayyidunā Ḥusayn raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu, and when he arrived, they deceived him, abandoned him, and fought him! Study the following references, in which the Shia admit to slaying Sayyidunā Ḥusayn raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu: مرتضى المطهري في كتابه (الملحمة الحسينية): يقول والعجب أن الحسين قتل على يد المسلمين، بل على يد الشيعة Murtaḍā al-Muṭahhirī says in al-Malḥamah al-Ḥusayniyyah, ‘and, astonishin...

  Many fabricated accounts were transmitted by liars concerning the noble Companions, the Successors, and those who came after them. Most of those who transmitted these accounts were narrators from various sects and schools of thought, and most of them combined lying about Rasūlullāh sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam  with lying about other people. I have counted about thirty such lying narrators, some of whom I will mention below. Regarding those who lied about the Companions, there is a well-known group that specialises in lying about them and defaming them. Among them are the poet Sayyid al-Himyari al-Shi'i, Mina ibn Abi Mina, Abu al-Jarud Ziyad ibn al-Mundhir al-Kufi, Abu Muhammad ibn Khurash, Ahmad al-Juwaybari, and Ibn Tamim al-Sa'di. Those who lied about ‘Ali radiyallahu 'anhu  and the Ahl al-Bayt radiyallahu 'anhum  were numerous, most of them Shia. Among them were Abbad ibn Abdullah al-Asadi, al-Harith ibn Abdullah al-Awar al-Hamdani, Muhammad ibn al-Sa’ib al-Ka...