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Ali burns the village of Zarara where wine was sold

إحراق علي قرية زرارة التي تباع فيها الخمر

between 656 and 661 CE

Kufa

Ali passed a quarter of Kufa called Zarara where meat was sold and wine too, and ordered it set on fire, saying the wicked eat each other; the fire spread from its western side until it reached an orchard. Al-Sallabi takes the report from Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam's Kitab al-Amwal 1.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
Review
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In time

640650660670680
The Rashidun Caliphate · The Umayyad Period

In space

Kufa

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موجز

يروي الصلابي أن علياً أمر بإحراق قرية في الكوفة تُدعى زرارة كان يُباع فيها الخمر 1. وهي خبر يُعرض في الكتاب ضمن باب احتساب علي في السوق، ويُنقل عن أبي عبيد القاسم بن سلام 1.

الخبر

نظر علي إلى زرارة فسأل عنها، فقالوا إنها قرية يُلحم فيها ويُباع فيها الخمر، فمشى حتى أتاها وقال: «علي بالنيران، أضرموها فيها، فإن الخبيث يأكل بعضه بعضًا» 1. ويذكر الكتاب أن النار احترقت من غربي القرية حتى بلغت بستان خوستا بن جبرون 1.

الإطار

يذكر الكتاب أن زرارة محلة في الكوفة سُميت باسم بانيها زرارة بن زيد 1، وأن علياً كان شديد الإنكار على من يبيع الخمر 1.

ملاحظات للباحثين
  • الكتاب لا يورد دليلاً فقهياً على إحراق الممتلكات بسبب بيع الخمر، ويكتفي بنسبة الخبر إلى الأموال ومراجع الحسبة.
  • الخبر في مصدره الأصلي قد يكون مختصراً، وينبغي مراجعة كتاب الأموال قبل الاعتماد عليه.
  • هذه المادة مثار خلاف في تقدير الحدود والتعزير؛ يُعرض الكتاب رأيه كما هو، ولا يحسم الحكم هنا.

Opinions on the question

First opinion · Sunni tradition (the museum's frame)Main reference

Al-Sallabi presents the act as Ali's strong rejection of selling wine, and gives no other justification for burning the village {cite:sallabi-ali-vol1 p. 269}.
More opinions (1)

Academic viewSecondary opinion

The book does not analyse whether burning property for selling wine is lawful; the report rests on Kitab al-Amwal and Ibn Taymiyya's Hisba, and the legal point needs a named source (needs_source).

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Had participant
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Occurred at
Kufa
Related to
Wine

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Ali's judgment on a slap over a debased dirham in Kufa· Ali's rounds in the market of Kufa· Ali moves the capital to Kufa· Ali's inquiry into a missing traveller and his wealth· Ali burns people in Kufa who claimed he was God· ʿAli's dispatch of his own governors to the garrison towns (36 AH)· Ali enters Kufa in 36 AH· Ali empties the treasury and prays in it

Sources

  1. Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Ali ibn Abi Talib, vol. 1 — Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi , p. 269
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Ali's judgment on a slap over a debased dirham in Kufa

A man sold a sheep on the condition of no debased coin and gave one; the buyer returned it and was slapped by the seller. Ali, passing through the market, ruled that the slapper sit, let the slapped man choose between retaliation and pardon, then had the slapper carried on a man's back and beaten fifteen strokes, saying this was the punishment for violating the other man's sanctity.