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Bashir to transport the particularly Imam Hussein.
widows and children to The imams encouraged
Medina, the women requested Shiites to engage in spiritual
that he also take them to worship because it brings
Karbala. When they arrived them closer to God
at the scene of Imam Almighty and strengthens
Hussain's slaughtering, they their love for the Prophet
discovered Jaber ibn Muhammad and the
Abdullah Ansari, a companion Fourteen Infallibles.
of the Prophet along with a However, some other
group of Banu Hashem. religious people believed
They stayed for three days, that this type of activity
weeping and wailing until were against Muhammad
their voices became croaky Sharia and Islamic teachings
hoarse and their hearts broke. and that visiting cemeteries
(Majlisi, 1983, Vol. 27: and such sites was nothing
45&146) more than a form of ritual
It should be noted that that the Islamic faith forbade.
what distinguishes Shiites There have been many
from others is their interest hadiths from the Ahl al-Bayt
in performing cemetery school of thought regarding
visits on a regular basis, the virtue of Pilgrimage the
beginning with Pilgrimage Arbaeen of Imam Hussein,
the grave of the Prophet including one from Imam
and the pure Imams Hasan Askari, who stated:
