14. al-Gharawi and al-Harawi

 

The Faqih and orator, Muhammed ibn Ali ibn Aba Jumhar al-Ahsa’i, has said the following in his debate with the virtuous al-Harawi which took place in 878 A.H. and which is quite famous among the followers of the sect:

He (`Omer) wanted to burn the house of Fatima (A.S.) when Ali (A.S.) and some of Bani Hashim refused to swear the oath of allegiance to him. He squeezed her with the door till she miscarried her fetus. Qunfath hit her with his sword because he was ordered by him till she died while the pain of whips and their marks were still on her side, in addition to other such abominable acts. He said: “This is what you narrate through your own venues and it cannot be used as a proof against others.” I said, “As regarding her inheritance..., etc. As regarding the incident of the burning, and the whipping, and the miscarriage, some of it is narrated by you (Sunnis) as the `intention to burn.’ It is narrated by al-Tabari, al-Waqidi and Ibn Qutaybah.”^[1]