\n On the eve of the tenth day of Muharran...

\n On the eve of the tenth day of Muharran, Imam Hussain -asws addressed his -asws \u00a0followers, the Ansar and the Bani Hashem -asws .\u00a0 It had become clear that this was to be a battle unto martyrdom.\u00a0He -asws \u00a0therefore released them from any obligation to remain by his side, When Syeda Zainab -asws \u00a0heard the battle – cries of their approaching troops she -asws \u00a0ran to her brother\u2019s -asws \u00a0tent and found that he had fallen asleep while cleaning his sword.\u00a0 She stood there quietly for a moment.\u00a0 He -asws \u00a0woke up, and seeing her -asws \u00a0said that he had just had a dream in which he saw his grandfather -asws , the Holy Prophet -saww , his father Mola Ali -asws , his mother Syeda Fatima -asws , and his brother Imam Hasan -asws \u00a0telling him -asws \u00a0that he -asws \u00a0would soon join them -asws .\u00a0Syeda Zainab -asws\u00a0 \u00a0wept on hearing these words, Mola Hussain -asws \u00a0said to her, “The blessings of Allah -azwj \u00a0are upon you -asws .\u00a0 Do not worry about the troubles these wretched people will cause.” \n That same day, Syeda Zainab -asws \u00a0\u00a0brought to him -asws her -asws \u00a0two sons Hazrat Aun -asws \u00a0\u00a0and Hazrat Mohammad -asws \u00a0\u00a0and said to him -asws \u00a0 , “O my brother, if women were permitted to fight, I would have courted death to save you.\u00a0 But it is not allowed.\u00a0 Accept therefore the sacrifice of my two sons.” Both young brothers fought like the grandson of Jafar-e-Tayyar -asws \u00a0and were martyred, Syeda Zainab -asws \u00a0\u00a0raised her -asws hands in Praise of Almighty Allah -azwj \n When the holy body of Hazrat Ali Akbar -asws was brought to the tents of the women, Syeda Zainab -asws wept with grief.\u00a0 She -asws clasped the body saying, “ O my son -asws , would that I -asws \u00a0had become blind, or had been buried beneath the ground so as not to have seen this day\u201d \n When her -asws \u00a0brother Mola Abbas -asws approached Syeda Zainab to bid farewell, she fell to the ground and wept.

Mola Abbas -asws was also martyred \n When all the ansar and Bani Hashim -asws \u00a0had been matryed and only Imam Hussain -asws remained he -asws approached the tents of Syeda Zainab -asws \u00a0to bid farewell .