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BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Problems of believing in the rib-breaking legend   Belief in the rib-breaking story of Fatimah radiya Llahu ‘anha results in many problems that require rejecting this story. We have found several problems with this legend, the most significant and legendary of which we will mention.   Problem 1: The necessity of attributing cowardice to ‘Ali Believing in the story of Fatimah radiya Llahu […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Criticism of attempts to claim the existence of evidence for the rib-breaking story   The supporters of the rib-breaking myth cite some narrations that do not mention the subject of beating Fatimah radiya Llahu ‘anha and causing her to miscarry, claiming that these narrations are evidence of the rib-breaking occurrence. Although what is mentioned in these narrations does not prove the rib-breaking occurrence, […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Part 2: Imami Narrations   The claim of the existence of evidence proving the rib-breaking story is not limited to the narrations of the Sunnis. Rather, we found the supporters of this myth taking this same approach in the narrations of the Imamiyyah. It has been mentioned that most of the narrations that Jafar Murtada al ‘Amili gathered in his book Ma’sat al […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Corrections   First correction Some Imami scholars have transmitted the narration of Dala’il al Imamah under discussion but contradicted what is present and confirmed in the copies of Dala’il al Imamah by changing the name Muhammad ibn Ahmed ibn Abi ‘Abdullah al Barqi to Ahmed ibn Abi ‘Abdullah al Barqi like al Majlisi[1] and Hadi al Najafi who indicated that he was quoting […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   The position of the Sunni scholars on the rib-breaking myth   After we have completed the discussion of the narrations of the rib-breaking myth, both in terms of isnad and text, and demonstrated its invalidity by criticising its contents and clarifying the contradictions in its texts, we decided to follow it with the statements of the scholars on this myth, as a group […]