\n Abu Al-Abbas Al-Kufi told me on the authority of Muhammad...

\n Abu Al-Abbas Al-Kufi told me on the authority of Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Khattab on the authority of Abi Saeed al-Asfari on the authority of Amr ibn Thabit, who from his father who said: \n Abi Jaffar -asws (Imam Mohammed Baqir -asws ) said: Allah -azwj Created, blessed and sanctified the land of Karbala twenty-four thousand years before He -azwj Created the Kabah.

Hence it was blessed and sanctified before the creation of any created being and it will remain this way until Allah -azwj Raises it to Paradise and appoints it as the best land in Paradise. It will be the best abode in Paradise in which Allah -azwj will Make His -azwj friends abide.