Al-Hajjaj b. Masruq al-Ju'fi
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| Companion of | Imam Ali (a), Imam al-Husayn (a) |
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| Place(s) of Residence | Kufa |
| Death/Martyrdom | 61/680 |
| Cause ofDeath/Martyrdom | Battle of Karbala |
| Burial Place | The Holy Shrine of Imam al-Husayn (a) |
Al-Ḥajjāj b. Masrūq al-Madhḥijī al-Juʿfī (Arabic: الحَجّاج بن مَسروق المذحجي الجُعفي) was a companion of Imam Ali (a) and one of the martyrs of Karbala. When Imam al-Husayn (a) was moving from Medina to Mecca, he moved from Kufa to Mecca to join the caravan of the Imam (a). According to some sources, he was the mu'adhdhin of the caravan on the way from Mecca to Karbala. In the Qasr Bani Muqatil station, the Imam (a) sent him to the tent of 'Ubayd Allah b. al-Hurr al-Ju'fi to call him to help the Imam (a).
Name and Lineage
Al-Hajjaj b. Masruq al-Ju'fi was from the Madhhaij tribe.[1] Al-Shaykh al-Mufid referred to him as al-Hajjaj b. Masrur.[2]
Event of Karbala
He was a Shi'a from Kufa and a companion of Imam 'Ali (a). When Imam al-Husayn (a) moved from Medina to Mecca, he moved from Kufa to Mecca and joined the caravan of the Imam (a).[3]
In the Dhu Husam station where the caravan of Imam al-Husayn (a) encountered the army of Kufa under the commandership of al-Hurr b. Yazid al-Riyahi, the Imam (a) ordered al-Hajjaj b. Masruq to recite adhan (call for prayers) at noon.[4]
When the caravan arrived in the Qasr b. Bani Muqatil station, Imam al-Husayn (a) saw a tent. He asked about the owner of the tent, and he was told that it belonged to 'Ubayd Allah b. al-Hurr al-Ju'fi. The Imam (a) sent al-Hajjaj b. Masruq to him to call him to help the Imam (a), but he rejected the call.[5]
Martyrdom
On the day of Ashura, al-Hajjaj asked for the Imam’s (a) permission to go to the battlefield. After a while he returned to the Imam (a) with a bloodstained body, and recited the following poem: "may my life be sacrificed for you—the guiding and the guided. I will meet your grandfather, the Prophet (s), today. And then I will meet your father, 'Ali (a); the great man who I know as the successor of the Prophet (s)."[6]
Imam al-Husayn (a) told him: "Yes. And I will meet them after you." Al-Hajjaj returned to the battlefield then, and fought until he was martyred.[7]
Al-Hajjaj is mentioned in Ziyara al-Nahiya al-Muqaddasa and al-Ziyara al-Rajabiyya,: "peace be upon al-Hajjaj b. Masruq al-Ju'fi" (السَّلَامُ عَلَی الْحَجَّاجِ بْنِ مَسْرُوقِ الْجُعْفی).
Notes
- ↑ Balādhurī, Ansāb al-ashrāf, vol. 3, p. 198.
- ↑ Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 2, p. 78.
- ↑ Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn, p. 151.
- ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī, vol. 5, p. 401.
- ↑ Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn, p. 151; Ḥāʾirī Shīrāzī, Dhakhīrat al-dārayn, p. 407.
- ↑ Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn, p. 151.
- ↑ Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn, p. 151.
References
- Balādhurī, Aḥmad b.Yaḥyā al-. Ansāb al-ashrāf. 1st edition. Beirut: Dār al-fikr, 1417 AH-1996.
- Ḥāʾirī Shīrāzī, Sayyid ʿAbd al-Majīd. Dhakhīrat al-dārayn fīmā yataʿalaq bi maṣā'ib al-Ḥusayn (a) wa asḥābih. Edited by Muḥammad Bāqir Duryāb. Qom: Zamzam-i Hidāyat, [n.d].
- Mufīd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-. Al-Irshād fī maʿrifat ḥujaj Allāh ʿalā l-ʿibād. 1st edition. Qom: Kungira-yi Shaykh al-Mufīd, 1413 AH.
- Samāwī, Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir al-. Ibṣār al-ʿayn fī anṣār al-Ḥusayn (a). 1st edition. Qom: Dānishgāh-i Shahīd Maḥallātī, 1419 AH.
- Qummī, Shaykh ʿAbbās. Nafas al-mahmūm fī muṣībat sayyidinā al-Ḥusayn al-mazlūm. Qom: Intishārāt-i al-Maktaba al-Ḥaydarīyya, 1421 AH.
- Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-.Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk. 2nd edition. Beirut: Dar al-Turāth, 1387 AH.