Then he -asws said: ‘It was so that my -asws father -asws , whenever the month of Al-Muharram entered, was not see smiling, and the gloom would overcome upon him -asws until ten days from it would pass by. So when it was the tenth day, that was the day (of Ashura) – the day of his -asws difficulties, and his -asws grief, and his -asws wailing, and he -asws was saying: ‘It is the day in which Al-Husayn -asws was martyred’.
[6] وَ رُوِيَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ: لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ ثَوَابٌ إِلَّا الدَّمْعَةَ فِينَا. It is narrated that: Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘There is a (known) reward for every act (of worship) except for shedding tears regarding us -asws .
My father narrated to me from all of my scholars, from Saad ibn Abd Allah, from Mohammed ibn Hussain ibn Abil Khattab, from Abi Dawud Al-Mustariq, from some of our companions, who said: Abu Abdullah -asws said: ‘Ali -asws ibn Hussain -asws (Imam Sajjad -asws ) cried over his -asws father -asws , Hussain -asws Ibn Ali -asws for twenty years – or forty years – and whenever food was brought to him -asws , he -asws would cry over Hussain -asws .
One day, his servant said to him, ‘May I sacrifice myself for you -asws , O son of Rasool Allah -asws ! I am afraid that you -asws may die (from grief). He (the Imam Sajjad -asws ) replied: I only complain of my distress and grief to Allah, and I know from Allah what you do not know (12:86) [8] .