in the Qur'an, Hadith, History
Event of Ghadir Khumm
Location of Ghadir Khumm
Ghadir Khumm Remembered on Other Occasions
A momentous event took place at a place called Ghadir Khumm on the way back from the Last Pilgrimage (hajj) of the Prophet Muhammad [s]. This site attempts to capture the details of what happened there, the sources that record it, the people who narrated it from the time of the Companions of the Prophet [s] to recent times, and the fate of those who knowingly denied it.
We would like to locate each of the references and make the relevant pages available through the Islamic Sources Repository which would be linked from the relevant parts of the Ghadir Khumm site. This would allow a researcher to verify the quotation and possibly help him or her to locate the books themselves. Many narrations are already linked in such a way to the image of their source. With your help, we aim to locate as many of them as possible, both published works as well as manuscripts, from libraries and private collections throughout the world.
The research that is the basis of this data bank of information has been done by some of our great scholars (see below). Through this particular endeavour, we hope to make this information 'come alive' and become much easier to access and digest. We hope that this will help gulf the terrible lack of information that persists among the majority of Muslims regarding this momentous and historic event.
Progress so far
It is difficult to be precise about what percentage work is completed and how much is outstanding. This is because of the complexity of the project and the range of sources being used. However, we estimate that about 30-40% of the available narration data has been captured so far. There is also a lot of biographical information for the transmitters that has not yet been captured. In addition, a detailed discussion on the meaning and implication of Ghadir Khumm is currently being prepared.
Those who explore this site in detail will be able to see the wide range of sources and contexts that even the 30-40% of data covers.
Sayyid Hamid Husayn Musawi Lakhnawi
(d. 1306 AH)
The great scholar `Allamah Aqa Buzurg Tehrani, who is the author of al-Dhari`ah ila tasanif al-Shi`ah, wrote about Sayyid Hamid Husayn and his masterpiece 'Abaqat al-'Anwar:
Aqa Buzurg Tehrani says about the `Abaqat: "It is the greatest of books compiled on the subject (ie. Imamate) from the outset of the Islamic era to the present." And what he says about the author and his book is perfectly representative of the opinion of leading Shi`i scholars on this matter.
Allamah 'Abd al-Husayn Ahmad al-'Amini al-Najafi
(d. 1390 AH)
Sayyid 'Ali al-Husayni al-Milani (may
Allah extend his life)
We would also like to thank everyone else who helped realise this project and who are helping in our efforts to improve and perfect it.
The Shi'ah Encyclopedia team takes responsibility for any errors or omissions and we will strive to correct it once we become aware of it.
Shi'a Encyclopedia team