Draft:Azar Faranbagh Fire Temple
Azar Faranbagh Fire Temple (Persian: آتشکده آذرفرنبغ) or Farnbagh Fire Temple[1] was a fire temple in the Fars region of southern Iran which, according to historical reports and Islamic traditions, was extinguished on the night of the birth of the Prophet (s), after having burned continuously for one thousand years.[2] This event, alongside occurrences such as the trembling of Taq Kasra, has been introduced as one of the irhasat of the Prophet (extraordinary events that occur prior to the mission of prophets, intended to awaken and mentally prepare people for accepting prophethood).[3] Nevertheless, the historical and hadith validity of this report has been questioned, since its earliest reporter (Aḥmad b. Abī Yaʿqūb, known as al-Yaʿqūbī) did not provide documentation, historians such as Ibn Saʿd did not mention it, and the chain of transmission of this report has been evaluated as weak in hadith sources.[4]
The fire temple of Fars was one of the three major fire temples of the Zoroastrians during the Sasanian period in the Fars region[5] and was located in the village of Karyan.[6] However, it is considered likely that this fire temple was initially located near Darabgird and was later transferred to Karyan.[7] According to reports by archaeologists, no significant remains of it have survived.[8]
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Notes
- ↑ Dastghayb, Hāfidh-shinākht, pp. 35–36; Muʿīn, Majmūʿa-yi maqālāt-i Dr. Muḥammad Muʿīn, p. 322.
- ↑ Bayhaqī, Dalāʾil al-nubuwwa, vol. 1, pp. 126–27; Ibn Kathīr, al-bidāya wa al-nihāya, vol. 2, p. 268; Ṣadūq, al-amālī, p. 285; Ṭabrisī, Iʿlām al-warā, vol. 1, p. 56.
- ↑ Tahānawī, Mawsūʿat kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn wa al-ʿulūm, vol. 1, p. 141; Lāhījī, Sarmāya-yi īmān dar uṣūl-i iʿtiqādāt, p. 94.
- ↑ “Did the Iwan of Kisra collapse at the time of the birth of the Prophet of Islam? Was the fire temple of Fars extinguished? Did Lake Saveh dry up?”, IslamQuest website.
- ↑ Ashrafzādeh, Rāz-i khalvatīyān, p. 242; Muṣṭafavī, Iqlīm-i Pārs, p. 92.
- ↑ Dastghayb, Hāfidh-shinākht, pp. 35–36.
- ↑ Murtaḍāʾī and Zabānavar, “Reconsidering the Location of the Azar Farnbag Worship Site…,” p. 175.
- ↑ Muṣṭafavī, Iqlīm-i Pārs, p. 92.
References
- Dastghayb, ʿAbd al-ʿAlī. Hāfidh-shinākht. n.p.: Nashr-i ʿIlm, n.d.
- Muʿīn, Muḥammad. Majmūʿa-yi maqālāt-i Dr. Muḥammad Muʿīn. Edited by Mahdukht Muʿīn. Tehran: Muʿīn Publications, 1364 Sh.
- Ibn Kathīr, Ismāʿīl b. ʿUmar. Al-bidāya wa al-nihāya. Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, n.d.
- Bayhaqī, Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-. Dalāʾil al-nubuwwa wa maʿrifa aḥwāl sāḥib al-sharīʿa. Edited and annotated by ʿAbd al-Muʿti Qalʿajī. Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1405/1985.
- Ṣadūq, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. Bābawayh al-. Al-amālī. Tehran: Kitābchī, 1376 Sh.
- Ṭabrisī, Faḍl b. al-Ḥasan al-. Iʿlām al-warā bi aʿlām al-hudā. Qom: Āl al-Bayt, 1417.
- Tahānawī, Muḥammad ʿAlī b. ʿAlī al-. Mawsūʿat kashshāf iṣṭilāḥāt al-funūn wa al-ʿulūm. Beirut: Maktabat Lubnān Nāshirūn, n.d.
- Lāhījī, Fayyāḍ. Sarmāya-yi īmān dar uṣūl-i iʿtiqādāt. Tehran: Intishārāt al-Zahrāʾ, 1372 Sh.
- Ashrafzādeh, Riḍā. Rāz-i khalvatīyān: Sharḥ-i guzīda-yi ghazaliyāt-i Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī. Mashhad: Kalahar, 1379 Sh.
- Muṣṭafavī, Sayyid Muḥammad Taqī. Iqlīm-i Pārs. Tehran: Anjuman-i Āthār-i Millī wa Nashr-i Ishāra, 1375 Sh.
- Murtaḍāʾī, Muḥammad, and ʿAlī-Riḍā Zabānavar. “Reconsidering the Location of the Azar Farnbag Worship Site in the Sasanian Period Based on the Comparison of Written Sources from the Third to Seventh Hijrī Centuries and Archaeological Evidence.” Pazhūhish-hā-yi bastān-shināsī-yi Īrān, no. 12 (1396 Sh.).
