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Dhu l-Thafinat

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Calligraphy piece reading "Dhū al-Thafnāt" in Thuluth script, by Muḥammad al-Mushrifāwī (1439 AH).

Dhu l-Thafināt (Arabic: ذوالثفِنات) means the one with numerous calluses. It was one of the titles of Imam al-Sajjad (a). Al-Thafinat means calluses on the knees and chest of a camel.[1] Because Imam al-Sajjad (a) was praying a lot, the skin of his prostration points of his body [knees, palms and forehead[2] had become hardened then he was titled as Dhu l-Thafanat.[3]

According to a narration recorded in Bihar al-Anwar, the calluses on Imam al-Sajjad's prostration spots were due to his frequent prayer.[4] Al-Ya'qubi reports that 'Ali b. al-Husayn (a) prayed one thousand rak'as every day and night.[5]

Also, according to a narration reported in Ilal al-sharayi' from Imam al-Baqir (a), the fourth Imam twice a year removed the calluses from his body[6] because during prostration they prevented his forehead from reaching the ground;[7] he collected them and when he was martyred they were buried with him.[8]

'Abd Allah b. Wahb al-Rasibi, the leader of Kharijites[9] and also 'Ali b. 'Abd Allah b. 'Abbas[10] were known as Dhu l-Thafinat as well.[11]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, vol. 13, p. 78.
  2. ↑ Yaʿqūbī, Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī, vol. 2, p. 303.
  3. ↑ Ṣadūq, ʿIlal al-sharāʾiʿ, vol. 1, p. 233.
  4. ↑ Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 46, p. 61.
  5. ↑ Yaʿqūbī, Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī, vol. 2, p. 303.
  6. ↑ Ṣadūq, ʿIlal al-sharāʾiʿ, vol. 1, p. 233.
  7. ↑ Khuṣaybī, al-Hidāya al-kubrā, p. 214.
  8. ↑ Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 46, p. 61.
  9. ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 2, p. 360; Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa al-mulūk, vol. 5, p. 75.
  10. ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 4, p. 71.
  11. ↑ Ibn Abī l-Ḥadīd, Sharḥ Nahj al-balagha, vol. 10, p. 79; Mudarris Tabrīzī, Rayḥānat al-adab, vol. 1, p. 255.

References

  • Balādhurī, Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-. Ansāb al-ashrāf. Edited by Muḥammad Bāqir Maḥmūdī. Beirut: Muʾassisa al-Aʿlamī li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1394 AH.
  • Ibn Manẓūr, Muḥammad b. Mukarram. Lisān al-ʿArab. Edited by Aḥmad Fāris. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1414 AH.
  • Ibn Abī l-Ḥadīd, ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Hibat Allāh. Sharḥ Nahj al-balagha. Qom: Kitābkhana-yi Āyat Allāh Marʿashī, 1404 AH.
  • Khuṣaybī, Ḥusayn b. Ḥamdān al-. al-Hidāya al-kubrā. Beirut: al-Balāgh, 1419 AH.
  • Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir al-. Biḥār al-anwār. Beirut: Muʾassisat al-Wafāʾ, 1404 AH.
  • Mudarris Tabrīzī, Muḥammad ʿAlī. Rayḥānat al-adab. Tehran: Intishārāt-i Khayyām, 1369 Sh.
  • Ṣadūq, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-. ʿIlal al-sharāʾiʿ. Najaf: Manshūrāt al-Maktaba al-Ḥaydariyya, 1385 AH.
  • Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-. Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī. Edited by Muḥammad Abu l-faḍl Ibrāhīm. Beirut: Dar al-Turāth, 1387 AH.
  • Yaʿqūbī, Aḥmad b. Abī Yaʿqūb al-. Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī. Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, [n.p].
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