Al-Ajfur
Al-Ajfur (Arabic: ألأَجفُر) is among the stations on the way of Mecca and Kufa between Fayd and Khuzaymiya. On the way towards Karbala, meeting of Imam al-Husayn (a) and speaking with 'Abd Allah b. Abi Muti' was perhaps made in this station.
Location
Al-Ajfur is a station on the way of Mecca and Kufa between Fayd and Khuzaymiya.[1]
Events
In this place, caravans of hajj have many times been robbed by thieves,[2] for example, in 285/898-9, the goods of Salih b. Mudrik al-Ta'i and many hajj pilgrims were robbed.[3]
In this place, Imam al-Husayn (a) met 'Abd Allah b. Abi Muti'.[4] In the report of al-Tabari and al-Shaykh al-Mufid, the place of this conversation is not known, but it is considered to be near water after Hajiz and before Zarud.[5] Other sources have mentioned that this conversation was made near Mecca.[6]
Ibn al-Athir reported that Imam al-Husayn (a) and 'Abd Allah b. Abi Muti' first met somewhere between Medina and Mecca and mentions that their second meeting happened after Hajiz.[7] In this meeting, when 'Abd Allah found out about Imam's (a) travel to Iraq, he asked Imam (a) in the name of God to give up his travel. Then he said,
- "If you ask Umayyads what they have in hand, by God, they will kill you and if it happens, no one after you would have any respect."[8]
Imam (a) ignored his request and continued his travel.[9]
Notes
- ↑ Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm, p. 108.
- ↑ Ibn Khaldūn, Dīwan al-mubtadaʾ wa l-khabar, vol. 3, p. 440.
- ↑ Ibn Athīr al-Jazarī, al-Kāmil, vol. 7, p. 490; Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 10, p. 67.
- ↑ Jaʿfarīyān, Aṭlas-i Shīʿa, p. 66.
- ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 5, p. 395; Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 71; Ibn Athīr al-Jazarī, al-Kāmil, vol. 4, p. 41.
- ↑ Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, Kitāb al-Futūḥ, vol. 5, p. 22.
- ↑ Ibn Athīr al-Jazarī, al-Kāmil, vol. 7, p. 490.
- ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 5, p. 396; Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, Kitāb al-Futūḥ, vol. 5, p. 22; Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 72.
- ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 5, p. 395-396; Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, Kitāb al-Futūḥ, vol. 5, p. 22; Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 72.
References
- Jaʿfarīyān, Rasūl. Aṭlas-i Shīʿa. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Sāzmān-i Jughrāfīyāyī-yi Nīrūhā-yi Musallaḥ, 1387 Sh.
- Ibn Athīr al-Jazarī, ʿAlī b. Abī l-Karam. Al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh. Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1385 AH.
- Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, Aḥmad b. Aʿtham. Kitāb al-Futūḥ. Edited by ʿAlī Shīrī. Beirut: Dār al-Aḍwaʾ, 1411 AH.
- Ibn Khaldūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad. Dīwan al-mubtadaʾ wa l-khabar fi tārīkh al-ʿarab wa l-barbar wa man ʿāṣarahum min dhawi al-shaʾn al-ʾakbar. Edited by Khalīl al-Shaḥāda. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1408 AH.
- Mufīd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-. Al-Irshād fī maʿrifat ḥujaj Allāh ʿalā l-ʿibād. Qom: Kungira-yi Shaykh al-Mufīd, 1413 AH.
- Maqdisī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-. Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm. Cairo: Maktabat Madbūlī, 1411 AH.
- Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-. Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk. Edited by Muḥammad Abu l-faḍl Ibrāhīm. Beirut: Dar al-Turāth, 1387 AH.