A new approach to the hadith "dafn al-banāt min al-mukarramāt” (burial of daughters is counted among the honored manners)

Pouran Mirzaei
Nihla Gharawi Na’ini

The phenomenon of fabrication in the traditions is a plight causing every researcher to ask (first) about the veracity of issuance of a tradition. This issue becomes much more manifest when the tradition becomes ambiguous or is inconsistent with rational findings. Occurrence of such a phenomenon is an undeniable matter; however, it should always be noted that the final expression of opinion about a narration requires taking several research dimensions into consideration among which is the circumstance of the narration issuance. The hadith "dafn al-banāt min al-mukarramāt” (burial of daughters is counted among the honored manners) is judged by major scholars as a fabricated hadith because its content is not consistent with religious and rational findings.

By taking the historical events and issuance circumstance of the hadith into account and considering the difference between the literal meaning of the words "dafn” (burying dead) and "wa’d” (burying alive) among the Arabic speaking, this research has suggested a new concept and this way has removed the doctrinal and rational improbability of the content of this narration.

Keywords: burial of daughters, circumstance of issuance, fabricated hadith.

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Criticism of ‘Āshūrā’-related narrations of Abu ’l-Faraj Iṣfahānī’s Maqātil al-Ṭālibiyyīn

Mohsen Raf’at¹
Muhammad Kazem Rahman-setayesh²

Maqtal al-Husayn (A.S) available within the book Maqātil al-Ṭālibiyyīn compiled by Abu ’l-Faraj Iṣfahānī is among the surviving early maqātil (martyrdom accounts) that have not remained secured against the distortions on the subject of ‘Āshūrā’, in a way that it makes us be suspicious about certain matters associated with the Event of ‘Āshūrā’. Comparing the maqtal (martyrdom account) of Iṣfahānī with the maqtal related by Abu Mikhnaf