Day 8

The lesson

1. Most historians count about seventy-two martyrs with him, eighteen of them from Banu Hashim (Ansab al-Ashraf; Tarikh al-Tabari; al-Akhbar al-Tiwal); other counts include 78 (al-Luhuf) and 87 (Muruj al-Dhahab). Men of Banu Asad buried them where they fell, on 11 or 13 Muharram; one report says Imam al-Sajjad was present (Tarikh al-Tabari; Maqtal al-Husayn of al-Muqarram).
2. The women and children, and Imam al-Sajjad, who was ill, were taken captive to Kufa, which they entered on 12 Muharram by al-Mufid's account, and then to Damascus (al-Irshad; Tarikh al-Tabari). Passing the bodies, Sayyida Zaynab cried out to the Prophet: this is al-Husayn, fallen in the desert (Tarikh al-Tabari; al-Irshad). In Damascus Yazid struck the head with his staff (Tarikh al-Ya'qubi).
3. Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari was the first to visit his grave on Arba'in, the fortieth day (Misbah al-Mutahajjid); by al-Luhuf, the returning household also visited it. The first shrine is thought to date from al-Mukhtar's time; the Abbasid al-Mutawakkil ordered the ground ploughed (Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub; al-Amali of al-Tusi), and the shrine was destroyed and rebuilt several times.

Questions

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