Muhsin ibn Ali
[9] After a heated session, in which a chief of the Ansar was likely beaten into submission by Umar, those gathered at Saqifa agreed on Abu Bakr as the new head of the community.
[11][12][13] To protest the appointment of Abu Bakr, al-Baladhuri (d. 892) reports that the Banu Hashim (Muhammad's clan) and some of his companions gathered at Fatima's house.
[24] Alternatively, al-Baladhuri states that Ali capitulated and pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr immediately after Umar's threat.
[20][27][19][2] Some Shia sources report that Fatima suffered injuries during a raid on her house led by Umar,[1] including the canonical Kitab al-Kafi.
[30] The remainder of the account in al-Imama wa al-siyasa describes that Ali was pulled out of his house by force and threatened with death, according to Khetia.
[38] Some Shia sources report that Fatima suffered injuries during a raid on her house led by Umar,[1] including the canonical Kitab al-Kafi.
[28] Many of these sources also allege that Fatima miscarried in this raid her son Muhsin,[1][2][15] whose name had been chosen by Muhammad before his death, according to Abbas.
[43] Much of the post-Saqifa account in the Kitab Sulaym ibn Qays is similar to (Sunni) historical sources,[44] but the book also contains explicit details of an alleged raid led by an impatient Umar on Fatima's house after multiple failed attempts to subdue Ali.
The book includes a hadith ascribed to the sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq (d. 148/765), in which the prophet was informed during the Isra about the violent deaths of his family at the hands of Muslims.
[51] Alternatively, Soufi notes that a slightly different version of the Kitab Sulaym ibn Qays already refers to Fatima's miscarriage during the alleged attack.
Considering that al-Mufid writes about violence against Fatima elsewhere, Khetia suspects that he refrained in his Kitab al-Irshad from controversial topics to render the book accessible to most Twelvers without provoking the anger of Sunnis.
[52] In his Dala'il al-imama, Ibn Rustam (4/11 century) includes a tradition from Ja'far al-Sadiq on the authority of Abu Basir, a prolific transmitter of hadith and a close companion of the sixth Imam.
[35][3] Shia Islam, however, holds that Fatima's injuries during the raid by Umar directly caused her miscarriage and death shortly after.
[2][3][4] Some sources report that Fatima never reconciled with Abu Bakr and Umar,[56][57][58][59][60] partly based on a tradition to this effect in the canonical Sunni collection Sahih al-Bukhari.
[69][70][2][67] Muhsin ibn Ali is mourned by Twelver Shia Muslims as a martyr, a "prototype of all holy innocents in Islam," in the words of Massignon.
He also draws a parallel between Muhsin and the infants killed at the order of King Herod in the Gospel accounts of the birth of Jesus.
