This book was mentioned in one of the threads here and I had a question.
Someone once told me that the author intentionally used the names of two sahaba in it. e.g. hazrat hamza became amir hamza and hazrat Umro bin Aas became Umro Ayyar.
thus this book was disrespectful to 2 great figures.
I dunno..any truth to that?
Nope....No truth in that...just a false belief....the story does not relate to Prophet(pbuh)'s uncle. Another Hamza of Sistan in Iran was the main hero....
and though he is a real character from ancient iran...all the events in the story....those wars n stuff are completely fictatious(sp?) and can't be taken as sober history...though invented and presented as one....
This practice was pretty common among those persian writers those days....to choose characters from antiquity and write fiction using their names.......
[This message has been edited by NaikLarki (edited April 06, 2000).]