سید مهدی محمودی

Some cast doubt and claim that the final fragment of the well-known Zīyārat 'āshourā had not been authentically a part of the original text, rather they are later additions to the text earlier anthologized in Misbah al-Mutahajjid of Sheikh al-Tousī (d. 460 AH/ 1067). Their most important reasons for the existence of distortion in this pilgrimage are 1) the original text of the previous manuscript of Misbah al-Mutahajjid (the Naqqāsh Rādī's manuscript), 2) the complete text of this pilgrimage in Kāmil al-Zīyārāt. It is proved in this article that applying dissimulation (taqīyyah) by pre-Safavid Shiite scribes and leading scholars was the prime reason for such a misunderstanding. To solve the problem in those versions in which the final fragment is not mentioned, it is proved here that the scholars did dissimulation in their version. To illustrate that the version had not originally been subject to dissimulation, also, facsimiles of this pilgrimage from the famous and authentic version of Mukhtasar al-Misbāh, as transcribed by Ibn Sakkoun al-Hillī (d. 600 AH/ 1203) are reprinted wherein the final curse-phrases appear in the text. Therefore, the final curse paragraph of the pilgrimage that was issued to declare the renunciation of the enemies of Ahl al-Bayt (as) is authentic.

For many years, the final paragraph of the famous Ziyārat 'Āshūrā has been the preoccupation of thinkers. Some have argued for its "Non--Originality" of this phrase and others have rejected them. In the article "Analysis and Criticism of One of the Paragraphs of the Popular Version of Ziyārat 'Āshūrā " - which was published in 2013 in the scientific and research biannual "Kitāb Qayyim" - the respected authors have tried to prove with four criteria that: the final paragraph of the Ziyārat 'Āshūrā in Kāmil al-Ziyārāt and also the old manuscripts of Miṣbāḥ al-Mutuhajid by Sheikh Ṭūsī, which do not include the phrase "wabda' bihi 'Awalan Thumma al-Thānī wa al-Thālith wa al-Rābi'" are preferable to the later manuscripts of Miṣbāḥ al-Mutuhajid, which contain this phrase. In the following article, the author has reviewed the reasons presented in that article.