{"id":522,"date":"2020-03-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/522\/fadak-throughout-history\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:39:45","slug":"fadak-throughout-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/522\/fadak-throughout-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Fadak throughout History"},"content":{"rendered":"
Fadak throughout History<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u00a01. Just as we know, Fadak, in tile beginning after the fall of Khaibar was transferred to the prophet (S) by way of compromise by tile Jews. By command of the verse: Its complete ownership becoming that of the prophet (S) and by order of this verse it became his right.
\n2. According to reliable historical records. During his lifetime, by command of the Quranic verse;\u00a0 the Holy Prophet (S) gave it to Fatimah Zahra (s.a.) In this way it came under the authority of the respectable daughter of the Prophet (s.a.w).
\n3. During the rule of the first caliph, this village was usurped and came under the control at the ruling government, arid they showed strange stubbornness in the preservation of this situation<\/h5>\n
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4. This situation continued as such until the time of \u201cOmar Bin Abdul Aziz\u201d the Umayya caliph, who had a more moderate stance in relation to the family of the Prophet (S). He wrote to his governor in Medina \u00ab telling him to return Fadak to the children of Fatimah (s.a.).
\nThe governor of Medina wrote to him in reply: \u201cThe children of Fatimah are numerous and have married into many different tribes. Which group should Ireturn it to\u201d.
\nOmar bin Abdul Aziz became enraged and wrote a harsh letter with these contents to the governor of Medina in reply: \u201cEvery time I order you in a letter to sacrifice a sheep, will you immediately write in reply, should it be horned or without horns? And if I should write sacrifice a cow, will you ask what color should it be? As soon as this letter reaches you, immediately divide Fadak among the children (offspring) of Fatimah (s.a.)!\u201d[17]
\nIn this way, with one great rotation, after many long years, Fadak was returned to the hands of Fatimah\u2019s offspring.
\n5. It wasn\u2019t long before the Umayya caliph \u201cYazid bin Abdul Malik\u201d once again usurped it.
\n6. Eventually, Bani Umayya was over thrown and bin Abbas came into power. The famous Abbasid caliph Abu Al Abbas AsSaffah \u00ab\u00d8\u00a3\u00d8\u00a8\u00d9\u02c6\u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u201e\u00d8\u00b9\u00d8\u00a8\u00d8\u00a7\u00d8\u00b3\u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u201e\u00d8\u00b3\u00d9\u0081\u00d8\u00a7\u00d8\u00ad\u00bb returned it to \u201cAbdullah bin Hasan bin Ali (a.s.)\u201d as a representative of Bani Fatimah (s.a.).
\n7. Barely no time had passed when \u201cAbu Jaffar Abbasi\u201d took it from the family of Hasan (a.s.). (because they had revolted against Bani Abbas)
\n8. \u201cMahdi Abbasi\u201d the son of \u201cAbu Jaffar\u201d returned it to the offspring of Fatimah (s.a.).
\n9. \u201cMusa Al-Hady\u201d another Abbasid caliph once again usurped it, and \u201cHarun Al-Rashid\u201d continued in this.
\n10. Ma\u2019mun, in order to make a show of great affection for the Prophets descendents and the children of Ali (a.s.) and Fatimah (s.a.), returned it to the offspring of Fatimah with much pomp and cirstance.
\nIt has been recorded in History that Ma\u2019mun wrote as such to his governor in Medina Qatham Bin Jaffar
\n\u201cThe messenger of God (S.) granted \u201cFadak\u201d to his daughter \u201cFatimah\u201d (s.a.) and this was a well know openmatter among the Prophets family. After that Fatimah was its consistent claimant and her word is more worthy than any ones of confirmation and acceptance, and I see it fit that it be given to the representative of that at Hazrat (s.a.). Return it to Muhammad ben Yahya and Muhammad bin Abdullah (the grand-children or Imam Zain Al-Abedeen) so that they may distribute it among her descendents.\u201d
\n\u201cIbn Abi Al-hadid\u201d says: Ma\u2019mun was sitting in attendance to the people\u2019s complaints. The first complaint, which came to him and was regarded by him, dealt with Fadak. As soon as he read the complaint he began to cry and said to one of his officers, \u201ccall and see where Fatimah\u2019s (a.s.) lawyer is\u201d. An old man came forward and spoke for a long while with Ma\u2019mun. Ma\u2019mun gave an order. A decree was written and Fadak was handed over to him as a representative of the Prophets Family (a.s.).
\nWhen Ma\u2019mun signed this decree De\u2019bel rose and recited a poem of which the first verse is as follows:
\nEnglish Interpretation: The face of time took on a smile Because Ma\u2019mun returned Fadak to Bani Hashim.[18]
\nThe author of the book \u201cFadak\u201d writes that on authorityof the single tradition of Abu Said Khidri which says: \u201cThe Prophet (S) granted Fadak to Fatimah.\u201d Ma\u2019mungave orders that Fadak be returned to Fatimah\u2019s ( s.a.) offspring.[19]
\n11. But Motawakkil Abbasi because of his intense hatred of the Prophet\u2019s family once again usurped Fadak from them.
\n12. The son of Motawakkil Mansour, ordered that it be once again returned to the children of Imam Hasan (a.s.) and Husayn (a.s.).
\nEvidently, a village that rotates as such from hand to hand, everyday being the plaything in the hands of spiteful politicians will quickly be laid waste. Eventually this very fate encompassed Fadak and all of its inhabited places became ruined arid its trees withered and dried up.
\nHowever, at any rate, these quotations explain this reality that the caliphs were especially sensitive in relation to Fadak, and according to his political policies, each showed a special position and reaction regarding it.
\nThis is all proof of what was said previously that the usurping of Fadak from Fatimah (s.a.) and her descendents had more of a political nature than an economic one. Its aim was to exclude them from the Islamic society and weaken their position. It was also a declaration of enmity towards the family of the Prophet (S). This was just as the return of Fadak to them, an act repeated several times in the length of Islamic history, was a \u201cPolitical Maneuver\u201d meant to be a show of sympathy and affection for the Prophet\u2019s family (a.s.).
\nFadak\u2019s importance in Muslim public opinion was such that in some historical reports it is related; that in the time of \u201cMotawakkel Abassi\u201d before Fadak was taken from Bani Fatimah (s.a.) the dates of its produce were brought among the pilgrims at the time of Hajj and were bought by them at exorbitant prices as good luck gifts![20]
\nNotes:
\n[17]Translation by translator from the Farsi, 38 Albalrethy in Fotoohul Buldan pg.38
\n[18]Ibn Abi Al-hadid, vol. 16 pg. 217
\n[19] \u201cFadak\u201d, pg. 6
\n[20]Ibn Abi Al-hadid, vol. 16 pg. 217<\/h5>\n
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\nHow Fadak was returned to the Prophets descendents
\n The historical journey of Fadak is one of the mysteries of Islamic history. Each of the caliphs had a positionregarding it. One would take it and the other gave it back, arid this situation continued to the point where this land was laid waste and was ruined. In order to discover the ebbs and summits that occurred in this flourishing village we have only to study the sections listed below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7453,7759],"tags":[18391,7556],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank-of-subjects-of-articles","category-history","tag-fadak-throughout-history","tag-shiastudies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}