Muhammad b. Musa b. al-Mutawakkil narrated to us. He said: `Ali b. al-Husayn al-Sa`d Abadi narrated to us from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Khalid from his father from Muhammad b Sinan from Abi’l Jarud Ziyad b. al-Mundhir from `Abdullah b. al-Hasan al-Muthanna from his mother Fatima bt. al-Husayn . She said: The crowd came into our pavilion. I was a young girl, and I had gold anklets on my feet. A man rushed to take the anklets from my feet whilst he was weeping. So, I said: “What makes you cry, O enemy of Allah?!” So, he said: “How can I not weep when I am robbing the daughter of the Messenger of Allah?!” So, I said: “Do not rob me.” He said: “I fear someone else may take it.” She said: They took everything in the buildings to the point where they even took the cloaks off our backs.

Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. Ishaq narrated to us. He said: `Abd al-`Aziz b. Yahya al-Basri narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. Zakariyya informed us. He said: Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yazid narrated to us. He said: Abu Na`im narrated to me. He said: A doorkeeper of `Ubaydullah narrated to me: When the head of al-Husayn came, it was placed in a golden pan. He prodded it with a stick in his hand, saying: Gray hair has hastened to you, O Aba `Abdillah. So, a man from the people said: Stop, for surely, I saw the Messenger of Allah (s) kiss where you are prodding your stick. So, he said: A day [of revenge] for the day of Badr. Then, he called for `Ali b. al-Husayn to be chained up, and he was taken with the women and the girls to the jail, and I was with them. We did not pass by an alleyway except that we saw it full of men and women hitting their faces and weeping. They were imprisoned in the jail, and it was made narrow for them. Then, Ibn Ziyad (la) called for `Ali b. al-Husayn and his women. The head of al-Husayn was present. Zaynab bt. `Ali was among them. So, Ibn Ziyad said: Praise be to Allah who has exposed you, killed you, and belied your narrations. So, Zaynab said: Praise be to Allah who ennobled us with Muhammad and purified us with a thorough purification. Allah will only expose the transgressor and bely the wretched. He said: How do you see what Allah has done with you, the Ahl al-Bayt? She said: Being killed had been ordained for them, so they have gone into their place of rest. So, Allah will gather you and them, and you will be judged by Him. So, Ibn Ziyad (la) became angry with her and concerned with her. `Amr b. Harith calmed him down. So, Zaynab said: O Ibn Ziyad! What you have perpetrated against us is enough for you, for you have killed our men, cut off our foundation, made our women permissible, and taken our women and our children into captivity. If that satisfies you, then you have been made satisfied. So, Ibn Ziyad ordered them back to the jail, and he sent the glad tidings of the killing of al-Husayn to the frontiers. Then, he called for the girls and the head of al-Husayn , and they were taken to the Levant. A group that went out with that troop narrated to me: Throughout the nights, they would hear the lament of the Jinn over al-Husayn until the break of dawn. They said: When we entered Damascus, the women and the girls were brought in in daylight with their faces uncovered. The cold people of the Levant said: We have never seen girls more beautiful than these. Who are you? So, Sakina bt. al-Husayn said: We are the girls of the Family of Muhammad. So, they went to the stairs of the mosque where the girls were made to stand; and among them was `Ali b. al-Husayn , who, on that day, was a young man. An elder from the elders of the people of the Levant came to them and said to them: Praise be to Allah who killed you, destroyed you, and cut off the age of sedition. He did not stop insulting them. When he finished his words, `Ali b. al-Husayn said to him: Have you not read the Book of Allah? He said: Yes. He said: Have you not read this verse, “Say: I do not ask you for a reward for this except that you love those near of kin.” (42:23) He said: Of course. He said: So, we are them. Then, he said: Did you not read, “And give to those near of kin their right” (17:26)? He said: Of course. He said: So, we are them. He said: Did you not read this verse, “Allah only desires to keep the uncleanness away from you, O people of the House, and to purify you with a thorough purification” (33:33)? He said: Of course. He said: So, we are them. So, the Levantine raised his head to the sky and said: O Allah! I repent to you – three times – O Allah! For You, I dissociate from the enemy of the Family of Muhammad and the killers of the Ahl al-Bayt of Muhammad. I have read the Quran, but I have never noticed this before today. Then, the women of al-Husayn were brought to Yazid b. Mu`awiya. The women of the Family of Yazid and the daughters of Mu`awiya and his family cried out and grieved. The head of al-Husayn was put in front of them. So, Sakina said: By Allah! I have never seen a harder heart than [that of] Yazid, nor have I seen a disbeliever or pagan more evil than him and more cold than him. He came in and said, while looking at the head: I wish my elders in Badr could witness the wails of Khazraj as the spears struck. Then, he called for the head of al-Husayn and installed it at the gate of the Mosque of Damascus. It was reported from Fatima bt. `Ali that she said: When we sat before Yazid b. Mu`awiya, we were calm at first. Then, a red man from the people of the Levant went to him and said: O commander of the faithful! Gift me this girl – meaning me, and I was a beautiful girl at the time. I became terrified, as I thought that he would do that. So, I grasped onto the clothes of my sister, who was older and more mature than me. So, she said: You have lied, by Allah, and have become cursed. That is not yours nor his. So, Yazid (la) became angry and said: Rather, you have lied, by Allah, for if I wanted to, I would have done it. She said: No, by Allah, Allah has not made that for you, unless you exit our way and take on a different religion. So, Yazid (la) became angry and said: You speak to me like this?! Your father and your brother exited the religion. So, she said: You, your grandfather, and your father were guided to the religion of Allah and the religion of my brother, my father, and my grandfather. He said: You have lied, enemy of Allah. She said: [You are] an oppressive ruler who ravages with his power. She said: It was as though he (la) became humiliated, so he went quiet. So, the Levantine (la) repeated and said: O commander of the faithful! Gift me this girl. So, he said to him: Leave – may Allah gift you a destructive judgment.

Muhammad b. `Ali Majiluwayh narrated this to us from his uncle Muhammad b. Abi’l Qasim from Muhammad b. `Ali al-Kufi from Nasr b. Mazahim from Lut b. Yahya from al-Harith b. Ka`b from Fatima bt. `Ali (s). Yazid (la) called for the women of al-Husayn to be jailed with `Ali b. al-Husayn in a jail that had no protection from heat or cold, until their faces peeled. A stone from the face of the Earth was not raised in the Bayt al-Maqdis except that fresh blood was found beneath it. The people saw red sunlight on the walls, as though it were sheets dyed in yellow; until `Ali b. al-Husayn was released with the women and the head of al-Husayn was returned to Karbala’.

Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad b. al-Walid narrated to us. He said: al-Hasan b. Matil al-Daqqaq narrated to us. He said: Ya`qub b. Yazid narrated to us from al-Hasan b. `Ali b. Faddal from al-Daylami – and he is Sulayman – from `Abdullah b. Latif al-Taflisi. He said: Al-Sadiq Abu `Abdillah Ja`far b. Muhammad said: When al-Husayn b. `Ali was struck with the sword, and they prepared to sever his head, a caller called from the direction of the Lord of Glory from the depth of the Throne, saying: “O Nation that has become perplexed and misguided after its Prophet! Allah will not allow you to find success in Adha nor in Fitr.” He said: Then, Abu `Abdillah said: By Allah, they will never find support nor success until the Revolutionary of al-Husayn rises.