Note: – (The book) ‘Al-Irshad’ Page 228, ‘But, it has been...
📌Note: – (The book) ‘Al-Irshad’ Page 228, ‘But, it has been said that Zayd Bin Arqam was blind on that day, his sight having been blinded by the supplication of Ali -asws Amir Al-Momineen -asws against him when he -asws had told him to testify about the speech of Rasool-Allah -saww : ‘One whose Master I -saww was, so Ali -asws is his Master’, but he had concealed it, like what it is in the commentary of Al-Nahj Al-Balagah Vol 1 Pg 362 of Ibn Abu Al Hadeed, except that the lords of translation did not transmit it in their translations.
و لو صح لم يناف انكاره على ابن زياد بضرب القضيب على ثناياه عليه السلام، لجواز أن يكون قد أنكر على ما سمعه ممن رأى ذلك نعم قال ابن عساكر في تاريخه ج 4 ص 340 أنه كان حاضر المجلس و يؤيد ابن زياد. And if it was correct, it is not beneficial, his denial upon Ibn Ziyad -la of striking with the stick upon his -asws lips, upon him -asws be the greetings, as a permit that he had disliked it based upon what he had heard from the one who had seen that, yes.
Ibn Asakir said in his history, Vol 4 Pg 340 that he was present in the gathering and supported Ibn Ziyad -la .
وَ قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ ثُمَّ رَفَعَ زَيْدٌ صَوْتَهُ يَبْكِي وَ خَرَجَ وَ هُوَ يَقُولُ مَلَكَ عَبْدٌ حُرّاً أَنْتُمْ يَا مَعْشَرَ الْعَرَبِ الْعَبِيدُ بَعْدَ الْيَوْمِ قَتَلْتُمُ ابْنَ فَاطِمَةَ وَ أَمَّرْتُمُ ابْنَ مَرْجَانَةَ حَتَّى يَقْتُلَ خِيَارَكُمْ وَ يَسْتَعْبِدَ أَشْرَارَكُمْ رَضِيتُمْ بِالذُّلِّ فَبُعْداً لِمَنْ رَضِيَ And Muhammad Bin Abu Talib said, ‘Then Zayd raised his voice with the crying, and he went out and he was saying, ‘A slave is owning a free one!
You, O community of Arabs, are the slaves after today. You killed the son -asws of (Syeda) Fatima -asws and have made Ibn Marjana -la the emir until he -la has killed your best ones and has enslaved your evil ones. You are pleased with the disgrace.
So, remoteness is for the one who is pleased!’ وَ قَالَ الْمُفِيدُ فَأُدْخِلَ عِيَالُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِمَا عَلَى ابْنِ زِيَادٍ فَدَخَلَتْ زَيْنَبُ أُخْتُ الْحُسَيْنِ ع فِي جُمْلَتِهِمْ مُتَنَكِّرَةً وَ عَلَيْهَا أَرْذَلُ ثِيَابِهَا وَ مَضَتْ حَتَّى جَلَسَتْ نَاحِيَةً وَ حَفَّتْ بِهَا إِمَاؤُهَا And Al-Mufeed said, ‘The dependants of Al-Husayn -asws Bin Ali -asws , may the Salawaat of Allah -azwj be upon them -asws both, were entered into (the court of) Ibn Ziyad.