Documents and Evidence of Arbaeen Pilgrimage

Arbaeen pilgrimage is the largest gathering of people around the world and the biggest religious festival of Shiites which has an important role in demonstrating the power of Shiites and expanding the objectives of Shiite Islam among the nations; Therefore, enemies of Shiites from all groups and religious and political schools attempt, by creating confusion and doubt and calling this political-worshiping festival as heresy, discourage Shiites from doing it. Providing documents and accurate, consistent and reliable scientific evidence in proving the authenticity and legitimacy of this spiritual festival can not only reveal the deception and tricks of enemies of Shiites and Ahlul-Bayt (AS), bur also pave the way for holding this fathering in a more elegant way among the great population of Imam Hussain’s fans. This article, by analytical-descriptive method, has tried to provide documents and evidence from traditions, history and lifestyle of Imams (AS) so that lovers of Imam Hussain and Ahlul-Bayt can respond to conspiracies of malevolent enemies. In this regard, this article not also provides documents and historical and Hadith evidence, but also mentions narrative documents of Arbaeen pilgrimage and part of the text, then to Jaber Ibn Abdullah Ansari’s role in the first Arbaeen pilgrimage and in the end, has provided the readers with results of present research.