Because of the issue of miscarrying the fetus of al-Muhassan, we find them quite ready to distort books, too. They distorted the book titled Al-Ma`arif by Ibn Qutaybah as we are told by Ibn Shahr ashab who died in 577 A.H. Said he, “... and in Ibn Qutaybah’s book titled Al-Ma`arif, it is stated that Muhassan was aborted because of the stampede caused by Qunfath al-`Adawi.”<sup>[1]</sup> Al-Kanji al-Shafi`i, who died in 685 A.H., quotes Shaikh al-Mufid as saying, “He added telling the public that after the demise of the Prophet (A.S.), Fatima (A.S.) miscarried a male stillborn whom the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) had named Muhassan. This is something which none from among the transmitters transmits it except Ibn Qutaybah.”^[2]

It seems that he meant that Ibn Qutaybah transmits in his book titled Al-Ma`arif, not in Al-Imama wal Siyasa, by the token of what Ibn Shahr ashab says as quoted above. But p. 92 of the present content of the book titled Al-Ma`arif, which was published in 1353 A.H., contains the following: “As for Muhassan, son of Ali (A.S.), he died when he was young...”

Thus, the distortion is carried on in all circulated editions; so, why do some people resort thus to distortion, and why do they truly betray the facts and history?!