Abar Ali: Difference between revisions

Some [[Sunni]] scholars have sought to deny the attribution of these wells to [['Ali b. Abi Talib (a)]], that is, they take "'Ali" in "Abar 'Ali" to be someone other than Imam 'Ali (a), including a contemporary Sunni scholar in [[Egypt]] who attributed "Abar 'Ali", the pilgrims' [[Miqat]] in [[hajj]], to [['Ali b. Dinar]], the king of [[Darfur]] south of [[Sudan]]. According to him, in 1315 A.H. (1898), in his hajj pilgrimage 'Ali b. Dinar dredged, restored and restarted the water wells of Dhu al-Hulayfa, and since then they were called "Abar 'Ali". However, many Sunni scholars have called these wells "Abar 'Ali" in works that date back to times before the period of 'Ali b. Dinar, including: [[Ibn Taymiyya]] (728 A.H./ 1327), [[Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani]] (d. 852 A.H./ 1448), 'Ayni (d. 855 A.H./ 1451), [[Samhudi]] (d. 911 A.H./ 1505), [[Ibn Najim al-Misri]] (d. 970 A.H./ 1562), and [[Ra'ini]] (d. 954 A.H./ 1547). Moreover, other cases have been made to reject this view.