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==The Connection of the Cellar with the Occultation of the Imam== | ==The Connection of the Cellar with the Occultation of the Imam== | ||
A number of Sunni historians have attributed to the Shia the belief that the occultation of Imam al-Mahdi(a) began from a cellar in Samarra, or that he will appear from that cellar.<ref>al-Ḥamawī," Muʿjam al-Buldān" , vol. 3, p. 173; Kharsān, "Safīna: Pajūhishī darbārah-yi Masʾalah-yi Sardāb" ,p. 89/102. </ref> | A number of Sunni historians have attributed to the Shia the belief that the occultation of Imam al-Mahdi(a) began from a cellar in Samarra, or that he will appear from that cellar.<ref>al-Ḥamawī," Muʿjam al-Buldān" , vol. 3, p. 173; Kharsān, "Safīna: Pajūhishī darbārah-yi Masʾalah-yi Sardāb" ,p. 89/102. </ref> | ||
In response, Shia researchers have strongly rejected these claims They emphasize that the Shia belief is that the appearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) will take place in [[Mecca]] and in the Sacred Mosque, and that it has no connection with the cellar in [[Samarra]]. They have explained that the fame of this cellar is due to the residence and worship of three infallible Imams there, and that Shia Muslims honor it only for seeking blessing from the traces of the righteous and for worship. They consider these attributions to be slanderous and based on misconception, and they note that no such belief exists in reliable Shia sources.<ref>Qomī, "Hadiyat al-Zāʾirīn wa Bahjat al-Nāẓirīn", p. 83; Al-Maḥallātī, "Māʾāthir al-Kubrā fī Tārīkh Sāmarrā" ,vol. 1, p. 350; Sayyid Muḥsin al-Amīn,"Al-ʾĀʾiyān al-Shīʿah", vol. 1, p. 107. </ref> | In response, Shia researchers have strongly rejected these claims They emphasize that the Shia belief is that the appearance of Imam al-Mahdi (a) will take place in [[Mecca]] and in the Sacred Mosque, and that it has no connection with the cellar in [[Samarra]]. They have explained that the fame of this cellar is due to the residence and worship of three infallible Imams there, and that Shia Muslims honor it only for seeking blessing from the traces of the righteous and for worship. They consider these attributions to be slanderous and based on misconception, and they note that no such belief exists in reliable Shia sources.<ref>Qomī, "Hadiyat al-Zāʾirīn wa Bahjat al-Nāẓirīn", p. 83; Al-Maḥallātī, "Māʾāthir al-Kubrā fī Tārīkh Sāmarrā" ,vol. 1, p. 350; Sayyid Muḥsin al-Amīn,"Al-ʾĀʾiyān al-Shīʿah", vol. 1, p. 107. </ref> | ||