Ja`far b. Muhammad b. Masrur narrated to us. He said: al-Husayn b. Muhammad b. `Amer narrated to us from his uncle `Abdullah b. `Amer from Ibrahim b. Abi Mahmud. He said: al-Rida said: Muharram is the month in which the people of the Jahiliyya would prohibit fighting, but our blood was deemed lawful in it, our sanctity was violated in it, our offspring and our women were made captives in it, fire was ignited in our marquees and what was in them of our provision was plundered. And (despite our relationship) to the Messenger of Allah (s), the sanctity in our affair was not observed. Surely, on the day of Husayn, our eyelids were wounded, our tears made to flow, our beloved abased in the land of suffering and affliction. Suffering and affliction were rained down on us. So, those who lament should lament on the like of Husain till the day of termination (i.e. the last day of this world), for surely the crying diminishes the great sins. Then, he said: When the month of Muharram would enter, my father would not be seen laughing, and intense grief would overcome him until ten days had passed from it. So, when it would be the tenth day, that day would be the day of his affliction and his mourning and his lamenting. And he would say: This is the day on which Husayn was killed.

Al-Husayn b. Ahmad b. Idris said: My father narrated to us from Ja`far b. Muhammad b. Malik. He said: Muhammad b. al-Husayn b. Zaid narrated to me. He said: Abu Ahmad Muhammad b. Ziyad narrated to us. He said: Ziyad b. al Mundhir narrated to us from Sa`id b. Jubayr from Ibn `Abbas. He said: `Ali said to the Messenger of Allah (s): O Messenger of Allah! Surely, do you love `Aqil a lot? He said: Yes, by Allah! I love him with two loves – out of love for him and out of love for the love of Abu Talib for him. Surely, his son shall be killed in the love of your son. The eyes of the believers shall shed tears over him and the angels made proximate shall pray over him. Then, the Messenger of Allah (s) wept until his tears flowed onto his chest. Then, he said: I complain to Allah regarding that which my progeny shall encounter after me.

Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Ishaq narrated to us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad al Hamadani informed us from `Ali b. al-Hasan b. `Ali b. Faddal from his father from Abu ‘l Hasan `Ali b. Musa al-Rida . He said: Whoever shuns striving for his needs on the day of `Ashura’, Allah will meet his needs of this world and the Hereafter. Whoever spends the day of `Ashura’ as a day of his adversity and his grief and his lamentation, Allah will make the Day of Resurrection as a day of his happiness and his delight, and his eye shall be cooled due to us in the Gardens. But, whoever calls the day of `Ashura’ as a day of blessing and stores anything in his lodging on it, whatever he has stored on that day will not be blessed; and on the Day of Resurrection, he will be gathered with Yazid, `Ubaydullah b. Ziyad, and `Umar b. Sa`d (la) in the lowermost of the lowest pit of the Fire.

Muhammad b. `Ali Majiluwayh said: `Ali b. Ibrahim narrated to us from his father from al Rayyan b. Shabib. He said: I came into the presence of al-Rida on the first day of Muharram. He said to me: O son of Shabib! Are you fasting? I said: No. So, he said: Verily this day is the day on which Zakariyya called upon his Lord. He said: “My Lord! Grant me good offspring from you; surely You are the Hearer of prayers” (3:38). So, Allah answered him and ordered the angels to call out to Zakariyya while he was standing in the prayer-niche, that “Surely, Allah gives you the glad-tidings of Yahya” (3:39). Whoever fasts this day and then calls out to Allah, Allah will respond to him like He responded to Zakariyya. Then he said: O son of Shabib! Muharram is the month in which the people of the Jahiliyya from the past would prohibit oppression and fighting due to its sanctity, but this Nation did not recognize the sanctity of its month nor the sanctity of its Prophet (s). They killed his offspring in this month and captured his women and plundered his provisions. So, Allah will not forgive them of that, ever. O son of Shabib! If you were to cry over anything, then cry over Husayn b. `Ali b. Abi Talib , for he was slaughtered like the ram is slaughtered. Eighteen men from the people of his house, the like of whom are not to be found on the earth, were murdered with him. The seven heavens and the Earths wailed over his killing. Four thousand angels descended toward the Earth, but they found that he had been murdered. So, they shall remain dishevelled and dusty till the Qa’im rises; then they will be from his helpers. And their slogan is: “Vengeance for the blood of Husayn!” O son of Shabib! My father narrated to me from his father from his grandfather : Surely, when my grandfather Husayn (s) was killed, the sky rained down blood and red dust. O son of Shabib! If you wept over Husayn to the extent that your tears came onto your cheeks, Allah will forgive all of your sins which you have committed, minor or major, little or excessive. O son of Shabib! If you take pleasure in meeting Allah while there is no sin over you, then visit Husayn . O son of Shabib! If you take pleasure in residing in the erected chamber in Paradise along with the Prophet and his progeny (s), then curse the murderer of Husayn. O son of Shabib! If you take pleasure in having a like of the reward of the one who was martyred with Husayn , then whenever you mention him, say: “How I wish I was with them! I would have attained a great victory!” O son of Shabib! If you take pleasure in being with us in the highest stages of the Gardens, then grieve over our sorrow and be happy in our happiness. And, you must keep to our wilaya, for surely, were a man to befriend a stone, Allah will raise him with it on the Day of Resurrection.

My father narrated to us. He said: Sa`d b. `Abdullah narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. al-Husayn b. Abu’l Khattab narrated to us from Nasr b. Mazahim al-Munqari from `Umar b. Sa`d from Abu Shu`ayb al-Taghlabi from Yahya b. Yaman from a leader of Banu Sulaym from their elders. They said: We invaded the cities of Rome and entered a church from their churches. We found written therein: Does the congregation that killed Husayn hope [for the] intercession of his grandfather on the Day of Reckoning? They said: So, we asked: Since when has this been in your church? They said: Three hundred years prior to the raising of your Prophet.

`Ali b. Ahmad b. Musa al-Daqqaq narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Abu `Abdillah al-Kufi narrated to us. He said: Musa b. `Imran al-Nakha`i narrated to us from his uncle al-Husayn b. Yazid from al-Hasan b. `Ali b. Salim from his father from al-Sadiq Ja`far b. Muhammad from his father . He said: There were two rings for al-Husayn b. `Ali . The inscription on one of them was: “There is no god but Allah, prepare for the meeting with Allah” (La ilaha illa ‘llah, `uddatu liliqaa’illah), and the inscription on the other was: “Surely, Allah brings about His order (Innallaha balighu amrih).” And the inscription on the ring of `Ali b. al-Husayn was: Debased and wretched is the murderer of al-Husayn b. `Ali (Khizi wa shaqi qatil al-Husayn b. `Ali).

Ja`far b. Muhammad b. Masrur narrated to us. He said: al-Husayn b. Muhammad b. `Amer narrated to us from his uncle `Abdullah b. `Amer from Ibn Abi `Umayr from Hamza b. Humran from his father from Abi Hamza from `Ali b. al-Husayn from his father from Amir al Mu’minin (s) that a man came to him and said to him: O Abu’l Hasan! You are called the Amir al-Mu’minin; so, who ordered you over them? He said: Allah ordered me over them. So, the man came to the Messenger of Allah (s) and said: O Messenger of Allah! Does `Ali speak the truth when he says that Allah ordered him over His creation? The Prophet (s) was enraged, and he said: Surely, `Ali is the Amir al-Mu’minin through guardianship from Allah; it was awarded to him over His Throne. The angels have borne witness that `Ali is the vicegerent of Allah and the Proof of Allah and that he is the Imam of the Muslims. His obedience is coupled with the obedience of Allah and his disobedience is coupled with the disobedience of Allah. So, whoever was ignorant about him, he is ignorant about me and whoever recognised him, indeed he has recognised me. And whoever denied his Imamate, he has denied my prophethood and whoever denied his rulership has denied my messengership. And whoever refuted his superiority, he has lowered me and whoever fought with him he has fought with me. And whoever insulted him he has insulted me, for he is from me, created from my clay and he is the husband of Fatima, my daughter, and the father of my sons, al-Hasan and al-Husayn. Then he (s) said: Surely, I and `Ali and Fatimah and al-Hasan and al-Husayn and nine from the sons of Husayn are the Proofs of Allah upon His creation. Our enemies are the enemies of Allah and our friends are the friends of Allah.

`Ali b. Ahmad b. Musa al-Daqqaq narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Ja`far al-Asadi narrated to us. He said: Musa b. `Imran narrated to us from al-Husayn b. Yazid from Muhammad b. Sinan from al Mufaddal b. `Umar from Thabit b. Dinar from Sa`id b. Jubayr. He said: Yazid b. Qa`nab said: I was sitting with al-`Abbas b. `Abd al-Muttalib and a party of the tribe of `Abd al `Uzza were near the Sacred House of Allah when Fatima bt. Asad, the mother of Amir al-Mu’minin , who was nine months pregnant and overtaken by labour pains, approached. She said: My Lord! Surely, I am a believer in You and in what has come from You of the messengers and the books. And I am a believer in the word of my grandfather, Ibrahim the Friend , who laid the foundation of the Ancient House. So, for the sake of the one who laid the foundation of this House and for the sake of the child who is in my womb, with whom I have come to You, facilitate my delivery for me.

Yazid b. Qa`nab said: We saw the House open at its back and Fatima enter therein and disappear from our sight, and the wall came together [again]. We tried to get the lock of the door to open for us, but it did not open. So, we knew that the decree was from Allah’s command.

Then, she came out after four days, and in her hand was Amir al-Mu’minin . And she said: I have excellence over all the women who have preceded me because Asiya bint Muzahim worshipped Allah in secret in a place where it is not liked that Allah be worshipped therein save under compulsion. And Maryam bint `Imran had to shake the dried date palm until she ate ripe fruits from it, while I entered the Sacred House of Allah and ate from the dates of Paradise and its sustenance.

When I desired to come out, a crier called out to me: “O Fatima! Name him `Ali, for he is `Ali and Allah is al-`Ali (the High) al-A`la (the Most High). He (Allah) says: I have split his name from Mine and trained him Myself and made him fit for the mystery of My knowledge and he is the one who will break the idols in My House and he is the one who will call towards prayer on top of My House. He will glorify Me and he will exalt me. So, glad tidings to the one who loves him and obeys him; and woe to the one who holds malice for him and disobeys him.