Muslim b. 'Abd Allah al-Mujashi'i

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Muslim b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Mujāshiʿī (Arabic: مُسلِم بن عَبد الله المُجاشِعي, martyred in 36/656-7) was a martyr in the Battle of Jamal. He is said to be from the Mujashi' or 'Abd al-Qays tribe.

On one account, he had a conversation with Hudhayfa b. Yaman, a companion of the Prophet (s), which inclined him to advocate Imam Ali (a). Before the Battle of Jamal, he called the people of the camel to the Quran and to obey Imam Ali (a).

Biography

Muslim the son 'Abd Allah[1] was a member of Imam Ali's (a) army in the Battle of Jamal. He is titled 'Ijli[2] and Mujashi'i.[3] Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabari, a Sunni historiographer, maintains that he was from Mujashi',[4] a Tamim tribe,[5] but al-Shaykh al-Mufid (d. 413/1022-3) believes that he was from 'Abd al-Qays Tribe.[6] Abu Mikhnaf, a historiographer of the second/eighth century, is quoted as saying that Muslim's mother, Umm Dharih al-'Abdiyya, was a Shia poet.[7]

Muslim lived in 36/656-7 in Madain (al-Mada'in),[8] and in the Battle of Jamal (in 36 years) he was still in his young years.[9]

Advocacy of Imam Ali (a)

Hasan b. Muhammad al-Daylami, a Shia scholar of hadiths, has quoted Muslim b. 'Abd Allah as saying that he inclined to Imam Ali (a) due to his conversations with Hudhayfa b. Yaman (d. 37/657-8), the ruler of Mada'in.[10]

According to al-Daylami in his Irshad al-qulub, when Imam Ali (a) took over the caliphate, he kept Hudhayfa b. Yaman, a companion of the Prophet (s), as the ruler of Madain. Hudhayfa gave a sermon in Madain, in which he declared Imam Ali (a) as the true Amir al-Mu'minin. Muslim found this remark sarcastic; that is, it seemed to him to imply that the three caliphs preceding Imam Ali (a), were not true Amir al-Muminin. At the request of Muslim, Hudhayfa recounted some of the past events to him. For example, he told him that Imam Ali (a) was titled "Amir al-Mu'minin" since the time of the Prophet (s) and indeed by Gabriel, while the three caliphs were given this title just by people.[11] Moreover, he told him about al-Sahifa al-Mal'una (the Cursed Scroll), the story of frightening the Prophet's (s) camel in the mountain pass Harsha, the Event of Ghadir, and the usurpation of the caliphate by Abu Bakr and 'Umar b. al-Khattab.[12]

Martyrdom in the Battle of Jamal

Muslim b. 'Abd Allah was martyred in the Battle of Jamal on Jumada I 36/656.[13]

Before the beginning of the battle, Imam 'Ali (a) wanted to give an ultimatum to the enemy. Thus, he asked his companions whether any of them would go before the enemy with a Quran in his hand. Muslim b. 'Abd Allah expressed his readiness and stood before the enemy's army.[14] He told them that Imam Ali (a) called to the Quran and asked them to obey God and act upon the Book of God.[15]

According to Ibn Athir, a Sunni historiographer in the seventh/thirteenth century, they first cut his right hand, after which he took the Quran with his left hand. When they cut his left hand, he pushed the Quran against his chest by his amputated arms.[16] Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabari (d. 310/922) says that Muslim was martyred by being shot with an arrow,[17] and al-Shaykh al-Mufid believes that he was martyred at the command of Aisha and an attack be spear-holders.[18] Imam 'Ali (a) had prognosticated the way he would be martyred,[19] commenting that God had filled his heart with light and faith.[20]

Muslim's mother was present when he was martyred.[21] In an elegy, she referred to Aisha as the mother of her son's murderers.[22]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 3, p. 524.
  2. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 3, p. 524; Ziriklī, Al-Aʿlām, vol. 7, p. 222.
  3. ↑ Ibn Shahrāshūb, Manāqib Āl Abī Ṭālib, vol. 3, p. 155.
  4. ↑ Khwārizmī, Al-Manāqib, vol. 1, p. 187.
  5. ↑ Ibn Athīr, Al-Lubāb fī tahdhīb al-ʾansāb, vol. 1, p. 223.
  6. ↑ Mufīd, Al-Jumal, p. 340.
  7. ↑ Amīn, Aʿyān al-Shīʿa, vol. 3, p. 457; Ḥasūn, Aʿlām al-nisāʾ al-muʾmināt, p. 184.
  8. ↑ Daylamī, Irshād al-qulūb, vol. 2, p. 323-324.
  9. ↑ Mufīd, Al-Jumal, p. 340.
  10. ↑ Daylamī, Irshād al-qulūb, vol. 2, p. 341.
  11. ↑ Daylamī, Irshād al-qulūb, vol. 2, p. 323-324.
  12. ↑ Daylamī, Irshād al-qulūb, vol. 2, p. 328-333.
  13. ↑ Masʿūdī, Murūj al-dhahab, vol. 2, p. 361; Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 3, p. 524; Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh, vol. 3, p. 246.
  14. ↑ Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh, vol. 3, p. 246; Mufīd, Al-Jumal, p. 340.
  15. ↑ Daylamī, Irshād al-qulūb, vol. 2, p. 343.
  16. ↑ Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh, vol. 3, p. 246; Ibn Jawzī, Tadhkirat al-khawāṣ, vol. 1, p. 378.
  17. ↑ Masʿūdī, Murūj al-dhahab, vol. 2, p. 361; Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 3, p. 524; Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh, vol. 3, p. 246.
  18. ↑ Mufīd, Al-Jumal, p. 340.
  19. ↑ Ibn Athīr, Al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh, vol. 3, p. 246.
  20. ↑ Daylamī, Irshād al-qulūb, vol. 2, p. 342.
  21. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 3, p. 524.
  22. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, vol. 3, p. 524.

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