{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos25_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos25_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_pro_mos25_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/mos25.htm","summary":"This is a religious-scholarly text in the Islamic tradition, likely an excerpt from a classical or traditional Shia commentary, presenting compiled narrations and theological debate about the figure of Al-Khidhr (Khidr) \u2014 the mysterious \"righteous servant\" mentioned in Quran 18:65. The text surveys contested questions about Al-Khidhr's identity (his name, lineage, and prophetic status), then addresses the central dispute over whether he is still alive, marshaling Sunni scholarly opinion (al-Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Taymiyah) against the position that he lives on, while firmly defending \u2014 through Shia Imamic narrations attributed to Al-Ridha and Al-Baqir \u2014 that Al-Khidhr is indeed alive and will eventually fight alongside the awaited Imam al-Mahdi. A distinctively Shia argument runs throughout: Al-Khidhr's encounters with Ali, Fatimah, and the Prophet's household at the moment of the Prophet's death, along with the attribution of the famous Kumayl prayer to Al-Khidhr, are presented as evidence of his ongoing existence and special connection to the Ahl al-Bayt. The text also retells the Quranic episode of Moses seeking out Al-Khidhr, supplemented by narrations in which Al-Khidhr reveals to Moses the future sufferings of the Prophet's family \u2014 a framing that anchors the story within a Shia theology of sacred martyrdom. Overall the work is polemical and hagiographic, using chains of transmitted reports to argue a sectarian position against mainstream Sunni scholarship on Al-Khidhr's mortality.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Moses: Al-Kh...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":3470}