People have continued to make it known in their writings and communications that this Cairene shrine is a fabrication. They have recorded this in their works, including scholars knowledgeable about the matter who lived in that city. Abū al-Khattāb ibn Dihya devoted a section to this shrine in his book al-ʿIlm al-mashhūr (Well-Known Knowledge), alongside the established and unestablished reports he related concerning the killing of al-Husayn. Despite this, he stated that the shrine’s attribution was unanimously regarded as false. He explained that it had been transferred from Ascalon towards the end of ʿUbaydī rule and had been contrived for corrupt purposes, and that shortly afterwards Allah brought that dynasty to an end and punished it with the opposite of what it had intended.

This has remained well known among scholars, including those in our Egyptian lands—Cairo and its surroundings. A group of trustworthy people related this to me from Shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muhammad ibn ʿAlī al-Qushayrī, known as Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd; another group from Shaykh Abū Muhammad ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Khalaf al-Dimyātī; another from Shaykh Abū Muhammad ibn al-Qastallānī; another from Shaykh Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muhammad al-Qurtubī, the author of the Quran commentary and the exposition of Allah’s Most Beautiful Names; and another from Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dīrīnī.

For each of these scholars, the person who reported to me from him was someone whose truthfulness I do not doubt, and a great many people reported to me from some of them. Each informant related that the scholar from whom he transmitted would reject the claims concerning this shrine and say: