استحداث يوم الغار ببغداد مقابلاً ليوم الغدير

استحداث يوم الغار ببغداد مقابلاً ليوم الغدير

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بغداد

The custom of the Shi'a of al-Karkh and Bab al-Taq was to raise domes, hang cloths and display decorations on the day of Ghadir, kindle fire on its eve and slaughter a camel on its morning. The other group wanted to do something in response, so it claimed that the eighth day of that month was the day on which the Prophet and Abu Bakr were in the cave, and it did with that day what the Shi'a had done. Opposite the day of Ashura it set a day eight days later, attributing it to the killing of Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr, and its people visited his grave at Maskin as the grave of al-Husayn is visited. The Day of the Cave began on Friday, four days before the end of Dhu al-Hijja in the year eighty-nine. ¹