Rushayd al-Hajari
 His tomb in al-Kifl, Iraq | |
| Companion of | Imam 'Ali (a), Imam al-Hasan (a), Imam al-Husayn (a), and Imam al-Sajjad (a) |
|---|---|
| Epithet | Rushayd al-Balaya |
| Cause ofDeath/Martyrdom | By 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad |
| Burial Place | Al-Kifl, Iraq |
Rushayd al-Hajarī (Arabic: رُشَيد الهَجَري), is one of the elite companions of Imam 'Ali (a) and Imam al-Hasan (a) who was a member of Shurtat al-Khamis. He was one of the closest people to Imam 'Ali (a) and received 'Ilm al-Balaya wa l-Manaya (the knowledge of calamities and (time of) deaths) from him.
Al-Shaykh al-Tusi mentioned his name among the companions of Imam al-Husayn (a) and Imam al-Sajjad (a). He was martyred by 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad (or his father) as Imam 'Ali (a) had foretold.
Surname
"Al-Hajari" means a person from Bahrain[1] or a city in Yemen or a village near Medina.[2]
His Companionship of Imams
Not much has been said about him in historical sources. He was a member of Shurtat al-Khamis and one of the closest and elite companions of Imam 'Ali (a).[3] Al-Ya'qubi has counted him among the pupils of Imam 'Ali (a)[4] and al-Shaykh al-Tusi listed him in the companions of Imam al-Hasan (a),[5] Imam al-Husayn (a)[6] and Imam al-Sajjad (a).[7]
In Imams' Words
Imam 'Ali (a) named Him "Rushayd al-Balaya"[8] (Rushayd of the calamities). Imam al-Kazim (a) said: "indeed Rushayd knew the [time of] calamities and events, and the [time of] lives and deaths."[9]
Martyrdom
Imam 'Ali (s) had foretold the way he would be martyred.[10] 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad ordered to cut his hands, legs, and tongue and then hang him.[11] It is said that he had a daughter –named Qinwa- who has narrated the story of his father martyrdom.[12]
Opposing many scholars -such as al-Sayyid Abu l-Qasim al-Khoei named 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad[13] and al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin named Ziyad b. Abih[14] as the one who ordered his killing.
His tomb is located in Kifl, Iraq.
Notes
- ↑ Ḥamawī, al-Mushtarak waqʿan wa al-muftariq ṣaqʿan, p. 438.
- ↑ Amīn, Aʿyān al-Shīʿa, vol. 7, p. 7.
- ↑ Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, p. 63.
- ↑ Yaʿqūbī, Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī, vol. 2, p. 140.
- ↑ Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, p. 94.
- ↑ Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, p. 100.
- ↑ Ṭūsī, al-Rijāl, p. 113.
- ↑ Amīn, Aʿyān al-Shīʿa, vol. 7, p. 7.
- ↑ Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 22, p. 123; vol. 48, p. 54.
- ↑ Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 1, p. 326-327.
- ↑ Mufīd, al-Irshād, vol. 1, p. 325.
- ↑ Amīn, Aʿyān al-Shīʿa, vol. 7, p. 6.
- ↑ Khoei, Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth, vol. 7, p. 191.
- ↑ Amīn, Aʿyān al-Shīʿa, vol. 7, p. 7.
References
- Amīn, al-Sayyid Muḥsin al-. Aʿyān al-Shīʿa. Edited by Ḥasan Amīn. Beirut: Dār al-Taʿāruf li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1403 AH-1983.
- Ḥamawī, Yāqūt. Al-Mushtarak waqʿan wa al-muftariq ṣaqʿan. Göttingen: 1846.
- Ibn Shahrāshūb, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī. Manāqib Āl Abī Ṭālib. Qom: Nashr-i ʿAllāma, 1379 AH.
- Khoei, Sayyid Abū l-Qāsim al-. Muʿjam rijāl al-ḥadīth. Qom: Markaz-i Nashr-i Āthār al-Shʿīa, 1410 AH.
- Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir al-. Biḥār al-anwār. Beirut: Muʾassisat al-Wafāʾ, 1404 AH.
- Mufīd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-. Al-Irshād fī maʿrifat ḥujaj Allāh ʿalā l-ʿibād. Qom: Kungira-yi Shaykh al-Mufīd, 1413 AH.
- Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥaasn al-. Al-Rijāl al-Ṭūsī. Qom: Jāmiʿa Mudarrisīn, 1415 AH.
- Yaʿqūbī, Aḥmad b. Abī Yaʿqūb al-. Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī. Translated to Farsi by Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Āyatī. Tehran: Intishārāt-i ʿIlmī wa Farhangī, 1371 Sh.