Day 5

The lesson

1. He stayed in Mecca from 3 Sha'ban to 8 Dhu l-Hijja. The Shia of Kufa, meeting in the house of Sulayman ibn Surad al-Khuza'i, wrote inviting him; their first letter, from Sulayman, al-Musayyab ibn Najaba, Rifa'a ibn Shaddad and Habib ibn Muzahir, reached him on 10 Ramadan, and letters followed in the hundreds (al-Irshad; Ansab al-Ashraf).
2. He replied that he was sending 'my brother, my cousin and the trusted one of my family', Muslim ibn Aqil, and wrote: the Imam is none but one who rules by the Book of God, upholds justice, follows the religion of truth and binds himself to God (al-Irshad). Muslim left Mecca on 15 Ramadan 60 AH (Muruj al-Dhahab of al-Mas'udi) and reached Kufa on 5 Shawwal; some 12,000 pledged to him for the Imam (other reports: 18,000), and he wrote that Kufa was ready (Tarikh al-Tabari; Ansab al-Ashraf; al-Irshad).
3. Yazid then made Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad governor of Kufa; through threats to the tribal chiefs the people scattered. Hani ibn Urwa, who sheltered Muslim, was arrested; Muslim, left alone, took refuge with a woman named Taw'a, was captured, and on Ibn Ziyad's order was beheaded on the roof of the palace on 9 Dhu l-Hijja 60 AH, the Day of Arafa; Hani was killed after him (al-Irshad; Tarikh al-Tabari; Ansab al-Ashraf; Muruj al-Dhahab).

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