Day 7

The lesson

1. When Mu'awiya sought to make his son Yazid his successor, he induced the Imam's wife Ja'da bint al-Ash'ath to poison him, promising her money and marriage to Yazid (al-Irshad 2:16); he sent her a hundred thousand dirhams but did not marry her to Yazid (Maqatil al-Talibiyyin; Sharh Nahj al-Balagha of Ibn Abi l-Hadid). The Imam died forty days after he was poisoned (al-Tabaqat al-Kubra; al-Irshad; Manaqib Al Abi Talib); some reports say three days, others two months.
2. He was martyred in Medina on 28 Safar 50 AH (670 CE), as al-Mufid, al-Tusi, al-Tabrisi and Ibn Shahrashub record (Masar al-Shi'a; Misbah al-Mutahajjid; I'lam al-Wara; Manaqib). Al-Kulayni gives the last day of Safar and al-Shahid al-Awwal 7 Safar, the day still observed in Najaf; the years 49 and 51 AH are also reported, and most Sunni sources give Rabi al-Awwal. He was forty-six, forty-seven or forty-eight.
3. When Banu Hashim carried his body towards the Prophet's grave, Marwan ibn al-Hakam and a party of the Umayyads blocked the way under arms (al-Irshad; Ansab al-Ashraf; al-Akhbar al-Tiwal of al-Dinawari; al-Amali of al-Tusi), and Aisha came on a mule and urged them to stop Banu Hashim (Maqatil al-Talibiyyin). Bound by his brother's request that no blood be shed, Imam al-Husayn turned the bier to al-Baqi, where he was buried beside his grandmother Fatima bint Asad (al-Irshad; Ansab al-Ashraf). Ibn Shahrashub records that arrows were shot at the bier and seventy struck his body (Manaqib Al Abi Talib 4:44).

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