Bab al-Thu'ban
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| General Information | |
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| Type | Entrance of Mosque of Kufa |
| Location | Kufa, Iraq |
Bāb al-Thuʿbān (Arabic: بابُ الثُّعبان) or Bāb al-Fīl (Arabic: بابُ الفیل) or Bāb al-Raʾīsa (Arabic: باب الرئیسة)[1] is one of the northern gates of the Mosque of Kufa[2] named after an event related to Imam Ali (a).
According to al-Shaykh al-Mufid (d. 413/1022) in al-Irshad, during a sermon of Imam Ali (a) in the Mosque of Kufa, a large snake (Arabic: thu'ban) appeared on the Minbar. The Imam spoke to the snake, and by answering its question, he revealed its identity as a ruler of the Jinns and prevented people from killing it.[3] This event caused the people of Kufa to call this gate Bab al-Thu'ban.[4] However, regarding the details of this event, different narrations have been quoted in Manaqib Al Abi Talib,[5] Madinat al-ma'ajiz,[6] and Mashariq anwar al-yaqin.[7]
This report has also been mentioned as a virtue for Imam Ali (a) in books such as Minhaj al-karama by al-'Allama al-Hilli[8] and Ihqaq al-haqq by Qadi Nur Allah Shushtari.[9] According to Fadl b. Hasan al-Tabrisi (d. 548/1153), Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyan ordered an elephant (Arabic:fil) to be placed next to the gate so that this virtue of 'Ali (a) would be forgotten and the name of the gate would change to Bab al-Fil.[10]
Notes
- ↑ Ṭurayḥī, al-ʿAtabāt al-muqaddasa fī l-Kūfa, 1406 AH, p. 72.
- ↑ Qāʾidān, ʿAtabāt-i ʿālīyāt-i ʿIrāq, 1387 Sh, p. 81.
- ↑ Mufīd, al-Irshād, 1413 AH, vol. 1, pp. 348-349.
- ↑ Ṭurayḥī, al-ʿAtabāt al-muqaddasa fī l-Kūfa, 1406 AH, p. 73.
- ↑ Ibn Shahrāshūb, Manāqib Āl Abī Ṭālib, 1379 AH, vol. 2, p. 251.
- ↑ See: Baḥrānī, Madīnat al-maʿājiz, 1411 AH, vol. 1, p. 274.
- ↑ See: Ḥāfiẓ Bursī, Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn, 1422 AH, p. 121.
- ↑ Ḥillī, Minhāj al-karāma, 1379 Sh, p. 151.
- ↑ Shushtarī, Iḥqāq al-ḥaqq, 1409 AH, vol. 8, p. 733.
- ↑ Ṭabrisī, Iʿlām al-warā, p. 179.
References
- Baḥrānī, Hāshim b. Sulaymān al-. Madīnat al-maʿājiz. Beirut: Muʾassisa al-Nuʿmān, 1411 AH/1991.
- Ḥāfiẓ Bursī, Rajab b. Muḥammad. Mashāriq anwār al-yaqīn fī asrār Amīr al-Muʾminīn. Beirut: Muʾassisa al-Aʿlamī li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1422 AH/2001.
- Ḥillī, Ḥasan b. Yūsuf al-. Minhāj al-karāma. Mashhad: Tāsūʿā, 1379 Sh.
- Ibn Shahrāshūb, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī. Manāqib Āl Abī Ṭālib. Qom: ʿAllāma, 1st ed, 1379 AH.
- Mufīd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-. al-Irshād fī maʿrifa ḥujaj Allāh ʿalā l-ʿibād. Qom: Kungira-yi Shaykh Mufīd, 1st ed, 1413 AH.
- Muqaddas, Iḥsān. Rāhnamā-yi amākin-i ziyāratī siyāḥatī dar ʿIrāq. Tehran: Mashʿar, 1388 Sh.
- Qāʾidān, Aṣghar. ʿAtabāt-i ʿālīyāt-i ʿIrāq. Tehran: Mashʿar, 1387 Sh.
- Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh b. Sharaf al-Dīn. Iḥqāq al-ḥaqq wa izhāq al-bāṭil. Qom: Kitābkhāna-yi ʿUmūmī-yi Ḥaḍrat Āyatullāh Marʿashī Najafī, 1409 AH.
- Ṭabrisī, Faḍl b. Ḥasan al-. Iʿlām al-warā. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, n.d.
- Ṭurayḥī, Muḥammad Saʿīd al-. al-ʿAtabāt al-muqaddasa fī l-Kūfa. Beirut: Dār al-Kutubī li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1406 AH/1986.