Javan Mard-e Ghassab Tomb
The Javan Mard-e Ghassab Tomb is a Twelver Shia mausoleum, located in Shahr-e Ray, in the south of the province of Tehran, Iran. It was built during the Qajar era, at sometime during the reign of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.
The mausoleum is adjacent to the Javanmard-e-Ghassab Metro Station. The district surrounding the mausoleum and the railway station is known as Javanmard Qasab.
Javanmard Ghassab
Javanmard Ghassab is a semi-legendary historical character. According to the legend, Javanmard Ghassab was a butcher who refused to sell meat to a slave girl, because she had made him angry several times complaining about the quality of the meat. Ali ibn Abi Talib was just passing by, and heard the slave girl crying; and consequently he learned about what had happened. Ali then came up to the shop and asked Javanmard to give her the meat she wanted. Javanmard was one of the faithful believers of Ali, but he did not recognize him by face, so he refused to give the slave girl what she wanted. But after Ali had left, Javanmard was told by a passerby that Ali was the one who had visited him. This made him feel very ashamed of himself, and he resorted to cutting out his own eyes and arm out to be sent to Ali in grievance, for forgiveness. His apology was accepted, then Ali read out Surah al-Fatihah and restored him to his normal condition.Other legends state that Javanmard Ghassab was a young butcher whom Ali rewarded with three gold rings after the Khaybar event for helping to sharpen his sword. No detailed information, however, is found for any person named Javanmard Ghassab. It is also theorised that the entombed is in fact the Sufi mystic, Abul-Abbas Qassab Amoli, who was a real person and not semi-legendary.