This is a baseless story that only Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi (d. 1111 AH) has mentioned in his book, in which he has collected every good and bad and named it Bihar al-Anwar. He has claimed to see “in some reliable books” that it “has been narrated without a chain of narrators” from “Muslim the plasterer.”[1] As you can see, this is ﴿ظُلُمَاتٌ بَعْضُهَا فَوْقَ بَعْضٍ﴾[2]; “layers of darkness, one above another”; since the book that has stated the story is unknown, its chain of narrators is unknown, and Muslim the plasterer is unknown! What is the value of a narration in which the narrator, the one narrated from, and the chain of transmission are all unknown?! What is the end of a people who practice religiosity based on such things other than going far astray?! Strangely, they ignore the clear verses and the mutawatir Hadiths that prohibit impatience and self-injury in times of calamity, then they act upon these weak stories! They are the ones who have taken their religion as mere amusement and play, and they are the losers!

To know what is permissible and what is not permissible in mourning for the Ahl al-Bayt, refer to saying 41 from the words of Allamah Mansoor Hashemi Khorasani .