Draft:Bab al-Thuʿban
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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 (thuʿbān) 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 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 (fīl) 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 Bāb al-Fīl.[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.