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The Book of Fatimah (AS)

Some anti-Shi'i booklets published by Wahhabis groups
allege that based on Usul Kafi, Shia believe there is a
Quran called "Quran of Fatimah"! This is a
malicious accusation.

There is no tradition in Usul
Kafi saying "Quran of Fatimah".

There are
however, very few traditions in one chapter of Usul Kafi
which assert that Fatimah (AS) wrote a book (mushaf).The
tradition states "The book of Fatimah".

Surely
Quran is a book (mushaf), but any book is NOT Quran.

This
allegation is as silly as saying "Quran of al-Bukhari"

instead of "book of al-Bukhari"!

Also those few traditions in al-Kafi clearly state that
there is NO single verse of Quran in the Book of Fatimah.

This
shows that the book of Fatimah is TOTALLY different than
Quran.

Of course, it was three time bigger than Quran
in length.

In one tradition it said that Fatimah (AS), after the
Prophet (PBUH&HF) passed away, used to write what she
was told that would happen to her descendants and stories
about other rulers to come (up to the day of
resurrection).

Fatimah (AS) recorded (or asked Imam
Ali to record) those information, which was kept in her
family of Imams, and was called "The Book (Mushaf)
of Fatimah".

A tradition which follows this one
clearly states that what is referred to by "The Book
of Fatimah" is not a part of Quran and has NOTHING
to do with Allah's commandments/halals/harams.

It
does NOT have anything to do with Shari'ah (divine law)
and the religious practices.

Let me give you some of
those traditions:

Abu Abdillah (AS) said:
"...

We have with us the Book of Fatimah,
but I do not claim that anything of the Quran is in it.

"
(Usul al-Kafi,Tradition #637) Abu Abdillah (AS) also said
about the book of Fatimah: "

There is nothing of what is permitted and what is
forbidden (al-Halal and al-Haram) in this; but in it is
the knowledge of what will happen.

" (Usul Kafi,
Tradition #636)

Abdul Malik Ibn Ayan said to Abu
Abdillah (AS): "The Zaydiyyah and the Mu'tazilah
have gathered around Muhammad Ibn Abdillah (Ibn al-Hasan,
the second).

Will have they any rule?" He
(AS) said: "By Allah there are two books in my
possession in which every prophet and every ruler who
rules on this earth (from the beginning of the earth till
the day of Judgment) has been named.

No, by
Allah, Muhammad Ibn Abdillah is

not one of them.

" (Usul
Kafi, Tradition #641)

"Mushaf" refers to a collection of "Sahifa"
which is singular for "page".

The literal meaning of Mushaf is "The manuscript
bound between two boards".

In those days they used to write on leather and other
materials.

They

either rolled the writings -- what is known as scroll in
English.

Or they

kept the separable sheets and bound them together, in
what could be called

as "Mushaf", a book in today's terms.

The
equivalent to the word book

"Kitab" used to (and still is) refer to either
a letter (e.

g.

of

correspondence) or to an document that was written down
or recorded.

The

Arabic word for wrote "Kataba" is a derivative
of the same word.

Although the Quran is commonly called a "Mushaf"
today, perhaps referring

to its "collection" after it was dispersed.

Quran
is a Mushaf (book), but

any Mushaf (book) is not necessarily the Quran!
There is no Quran of

Fatimah! As the above and many other traditions suggest,
The book of

Fatimah has absolutely no connection with Quran.

This
concept is commonly

pulled out of context and published by anti-Shi'i groups
due to their

hatred toward the Followers of the Members of the House
of Prophet

(PBUH&HF).

I have seen it mentioned in a
book printed by the government of

Saudi Arabia.

What is also *very* important to recognize and understand
is that belief in

Mushaf Fatimah is NOT a requirement of BELIEF to the Shia.

It
is just few

traditions which report such a thing.

It is
nothing crucial for us, nor any

one (except Imam Mahdi) has access to it.

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