Maqtal al-Husayn (a) (by Abu Mikhnaf): Difference between revisions

Maqtal al-Husayn (a) was the first [[Maqtal]] written on the incident of [[Ashura]] and martyrdom of [[Imam al-Husayn (a)]]. Lut b. Yahya known as Abu Mikhnaf was the author of this maqtal; the book is well-known as Maqtal of [[Abu Mikhnaf]]. It is inscribed two generations after the Day of Ashura. It was available until the fourth century (A.H.) but later it perished just like other works of Abu Mikhnaf.

There is a book named Maqtal of Abu Mikhnaf which is not accepted by researchers. Muhammad Hadi Yusefi al-Gharawi in his book Waq'at al-taf li Abi Mikhnaf tried to collect and organize available quotations in Tarikh al-Tabari and restore the actual Maqtal of Abu Mikhnaf.

Lut b. Yahya b. Sa'id b. Mikhnaf al-Azradi known as Abu Mikhnaf, was born in the second half of the first century A.H. in [[Kufa]]; he passed away in 157 or 158 A.H. He has written many books. According to [[Al-Najashi]] Abu Mikhnaf has written twenty eight books; also [[Ibn Nadim]] mentioned thirty books, including: the books on the death of [['Uthman b. 'Affan, the [[battle of Siffin]], Maqtal of Muhammad b. Abi Bakr, Maqtal of Amir al-Mu'minin (a).