أول مأتم عاشوراء وعيد غدير ببغداد

أول مأتم عاشوراء وعيد غدير ببغداد

تقریباً 963 عیسوی · 352 ھ

In 351 the Shi'a of Baghdad wrote on the mosque doors curses on Mu'awiya, on those who seized Fatima's Fadak, who kept al-Hasan from burial beside his grandfather, who exiled Abu Dharr; it was erased by night, and vizier al-Muhallabi advised Mu'izz al-Dawla to substitute 'God curse the wrongdoers of the Prophet's house' — only Mu'awiya's cursing stayed explicit. On Ashura 352 Mu'izz compelled the markets shut, forbade cooking, set up mourning domes hung with sackcloth, and brought out dishevelled women beating their cheeks — the first Husayn lamentation at Baghdad, a practice that lasted years, and on 18 Dhu'l-Hijja the Ghadir Khumm festival was made with drums ¹.