The interpretation of a qasideh (ode) and the identification of a grave (Versified account of Hasan b. Hamzeh-ye Tabari?s travel to T?s visiting the grave of his father Ab? al-Q?sem, in M?matir)

Hasan b. Hamzeh-ye Tabari is a 3-4th- century Shi’i scholar who transferred a considerable amount of Shi’i written heritage from Iranian sheikhs to Bagdad’s religious scholars. In addition to authoring many books on Islamic sciences such as Hadith (Tradition), Feqh (Jurisprudence) and Kalām (Islamic speculative theology), he had the talent of writing poetry. In his Tabarestān History, Ebn-e Esfandiyār has quoted several couplets of a qasideh composed by Hasan b. Hamzeh, which narrates his travel from Āmol to Mashhad.
In this article, the writer, in addition to reproducing the versified travelogue of Hasan b. Hamzeh, addresses a misread word; and through discovering its correct form, he points out that this couplet refers to Hasan’s home during his childhood and youth years, and that it must be interpreted as his love for “Māmatir”. In the latter part of the article, by examining and assessing the views put forward as to a grave in Māmatir, on the one hand, and by referring to certain evidences and clues and drawing attention to misreadings and lexical distortions that have occurred, on the other, it has been demonstrated that the grave belongs to Abū al-Qāsem, Hasan b. Hamzeh’s father