Fadak in History

the Author’s Foreword

Dear reader:

 This is a work that I seized the opportunity of one of our holidays in our splendid university-the University of Holy Najaf-to apply myself to study one of the Islamic history problems. It was the problem of Fadak and the historical dispute that took place between Fatima az-Zahra’ (peace be on her) and the first caliph (may Allah be pleased with him). Many themes and conclusions formed in my mind. I wrote them down on separate pieces of paper. When I finished studying the documents and the narrations of the case besides its environments, I found that what was written on those pieces of paper was fit as draft for a sufficient study for the case. I began to refine it and organize it into chapters, which became as a small book. I decided to keep it as a memorandum to refer to when I would need it. It remained with me for many years as a point of my intellectual life and as reminder of the date, in which I started to write it down, until the virtuous Sheikh Muhammad Kadhim al-Kutubi, the son of Sheikh Sadiq al-Kutubi, asked me to give it to him to print. I submitted to his wish appreciating his favors on the Arabic and Islamic library. Here it is now before you.

The author