Al-Nukhayla
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Al-Nukhayla (Arabic: النُخَیلَة) was a military camp near Kufa. Imam Ali (a) gave a speech for his companions at this location. Also, in the Battle of Karbala, Ibn Ziyad sent some forces from Nukhayla to help Umar b. Sa'd to fight with Imam al-Husayn (a). This place is now known as Abbasiyyat.
Location
Nukhayla was near Kufa on the way to Syria.[1] This place is now known as Abbasiyyat.[2] Also, Nukhayla was the name of a water near Maghitha and Aqaba (in the south of Kufa).[3]
Historical Events
- In the Battle of Siffin, Imam Ali (a) camped in this place and gave a speech to his companions. There, he (a) also wrote letters to his agents and asked them to join him and then moved toward Syria.[4]
- It is said that when Busr b. Artat took over Yemen, Imam Ali (a) gave a speech in Nukhayla and criticized the people of Kufa there.[5]
- In the Battle of Karbala, Ibn Ziyad sent forces to Karbala to help Umar b. Sa'd from there.[6] When the messenger of Umar b. Sa'd delivered the news of Imam al-Husayn's (a) refusal from pledging allegiance to Yazid, to Ibn Ziyad in Kufa, he camped in Nukhayla together with his companions and from there, he sent Husayn b. Numayr, Hajjar b. Abjar, Shabath b. Rib'i and Shimr b. Dhi al-Jawshan to help Umar b. Sa'd.[7]
- Nukhayla was the camp of the Tawwabun army.[8] On the fifth of Rabi' I, Tawwabun left it toward Syria.[9]
Mosque of Nukhayla
In the city of al-Kifl near Kufa, there is a mosque known as the mosque of Nukhayla, the construction of which dates back to the time of Öljeitü. It is said that this mosque was built in a place Imam Ali (a) performed prayer before going to Siffin.[10] However, some writers rejected this claim and said that based on historical sources, Imam Ali (a) camped in Nukhayla before crossing Euphrates, while the mentioned place is located after Euphrates. Also, there is a place called Nukhayla twenty five kilometers to the east of al-Raqqa (in Syria), the residents of which believe that it was the place Imam Ali (a) stayed in the Battle of Siffin.[11]
Notes
- ↑ Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol. 5, p. 278.
- ↑ Muḥaddithī, Farhang-i ʿāshūrā, P. 479.
- ↑ Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol. 5, p. 278.
- ↑ Dīnawarī, al-Akbār al-ṭiwāl, p. 165-166.
- ↑ Masʿūdī, Murūj al-dhahab, vol. 3, p. 142.
- ↑ Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā, vol. 1, p. 466.
- ↑ Dīnawarī, al-Akbār al-ṭiwāl, p. 254.
- ↑ Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāya wa l-nihāya, vol. 8, p. 276-277.
- ↑ Ibn Athīr, al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh, vol. 4, p. 178.
- ↑ Ḥirz al-Dīn, Marāqid al-maʿārif, p. 294.
- ↑ Khāmayār, "Pazhūhishī dar masīr-i Imām ʿAlī", p. 67-68.
References
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- Ḥamawī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbd Allāh al-. Muʿjam al-buldān. Beirut: Dār al-Ṣādir, 1995.
- Ḥirz al-Dīn, Muḥammad. Marāqid al-maʿārif. Edited by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ḥirz al-Dīn. [n.p]: Maṭbaʿat al-Ādāb, 1971.
- Ibn Athīr, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad. Al-Kāmil fī l-tārīkh. Beirut: Dār al-Ṣādir, 1386 AH.
- Ibn Kathīr, Ismāʿīl b. ʿUmar. Al-Bidāya wa l-nihāya. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 1408 AH.
- Ibn Saʿd, Muḥammad b. Manīʿ al-Baṣrī. Al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā. Edited by Muḥammad b. Ṣāmil al-Salmā. Ta'if: Maktabat al-Ṣiddīq, 1414 AH.
- Khāmayār, Aḥmad. 1390 Sh. "Pazhūhishī dar masīr-i Imām ʿAlī bi Siffin wa maḥall-i jang-i Siffin." Pazhūhishnāma-yi ʿAlawī 3:41-72.
- Masʿūdī, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-. Murūj al-dhahab wa maʿādin al-jawhar. Edited by Asʿad Dāghir. Qom: Dār al-Hijra, 1409 AH.
- Muḥaddithī, Jawād. Farhang-i ʿāshūrā. Thirteenth edition. Qom: Nashr-i Maʿrūf, 1388 Sh.