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Question: is the Eid of Ghadir made by Shi’ites?
Answer: Naviry and Maqrizy say: Mu’izzudoleh Ali Ibne Booyeh has made this Eid up. In defining Islam Eids, Naviry said in <Nihayatal-Arab Fi Fonunil-Adab> (1):” Shi’ites have made this Eid up and have named it Ghadir Eid. They think its reason is the contract of brotherhood by messenger of God with Ali Ibne Abby Talib in Ghadir Khum day. The day which they have made this Eid up is 18th of farewell pilgrimage; because the contract of brotherhood in the 10th year of Hegira has occurred in that day which had been in farewell pilgrimage.
They performed ritual prayers during all the nights of that Eid and morning ritual prayer of 2 Rak’ats before sunrise. Their motto was, wearing new clothes, releasing slaves, being kind to outsiders and sacrificing.
And Mu’izuddole Abul-Hassan Ali Ibne Booyeh was the first person who made this Eid up [later we will mentioned about him in the year (352)]. By heterodoxy of Shi’ia and considering it as Sunna, People of Sunna also regarded the day which is 8 days after Shi’ia Eid, as mirth day in the year (289) and said: messenger of God- may God bless him and his household- and Abu Bakr Saddiq entered in the cave in this day. So they feasted and built fire in this day.
Maqrizi said in <Khatat> (2): Eid of Ghadir had not been a legitimate Eid and none of former leaders of community who were the people’s exemplars, have regarded this day as Eid. This day had been regarded as Eid for the first time in Iraq and during the empire of Mu’izuddole Ali Ibne Booyeh who made it up in the year (352) and consequently Shi’ia named this day as Eid thereafter.
What can you say about a historian who writes in the course of history of Shi’ia without any knowledge of truth or maybe he knew the truth and forgot it when writing or perhaps based on a pre-determined plan, he overlooked the truth. Perhaps he did not know what he was writing about or at least he was indifferent to his word. Isn’t he Mas’udi who died in (346) and said in <Al-tanbih Val-ashraf> (3):” the children of Ali-pbuh- and his Shi’ites respect this day”? And isn’t he Kulayni, the narrator of Ghadir hadith in <Kafi> (4) who died in (329)? And before him, here is the commentator, Farat Ibne Ibrahim Kufi who is the narrator of another hadith in his commentary book (5), he is one of Kulayni reliable sheikhs of Islam. And historically these books obviously have been written before what Naviry and Maqrizi have been claimed in the year (352).
And isn’t he Fayyaz Ibne Muhammad Ibne Tussy who has informed about the Ghadir Eid in the year (259) and said:” he witnessed that Imam Reza-pbuh- died in 203-had feasted this day and had mentioned its virtue and not being heresy and he had quoted it from his fathers.
Imam Sadiq –pbuh- died in 148- had said about this Eid to his companions and had informed them about traditions of prophets which they name the day of appointing their vicegerent as Eid. Like as the habit of kings and commanders who used to feast the days of coronation. Religious Imams-pbut- also ordered their Shi’ites to do good acts, particular prayers and deeds in this day.
This is the reality of Eid of Ghadir. And these 2 persons wanted to detriment to Shi’ia and as a result denied the righteous forbearers and made it the heresy which is attributed to Muizzudole.
(So, the truth prevailed and what they were doing was annulled, they were defeated and turned belittled,)(6). (7)
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