This is his messenger and he has ordered him not to leave me...

This is his messenger and he has ordered him not to leave me until I carry out the order with regard to you." Yazid (b. Ziyad) b. al-Muhajir al-Kindi who was with al-Husayn, peace be on him, looked at the messenger of Ibn Ziyad and he recognized him. "May your mother be deprived of you," he exclaimed, "what a business you have come to!" "I have obeyed my Imam and remained faithful to my pledge of allegiance," (the other man) answered.

You have been disobedient to your Lord and have obeyed your Imam in bringing about the destruction of your soul," responded Ibn al-Muhajir. "You have acquired (eternal) shame (for yourself) and (the punishment of) Hell-fire. What a wicked Imam your Imam is! Indeed God has said: we have made them Imams who summon (people) to Hellfire and on the Day of Resurrection they will not be helped. (XXVIII, 41) Your Imam is one of those. Al-Hurr b.

Yazid began to make the people stop in a place that was without water and where there was no village. "Shame upon you, let us stop at this village or that one," said al- Husayn, peace be on him. He meant by this, Ninawa and al- Ghadiriyya, and by that, Shufayya." "By God, I cannot do that," replied (al-Hurr), "for this man has been sent to me as a spy." "Son of the Apostle of God," said Zuhayr b.

al-Qayn, "I can only think that after what you have seen, the situation will get worse than what you have seen. Fighting these people, now, will be easier for us than fighting those who will come against us after them. For by my life, after them will come against us such (a number) as we will not have the power (to fight) against." "I will not begin to fight against them," answered al-Husayn. That was Thursday, 2nd of (the month of) Muharram in the year 61 A.H.(680). On the next day, Umar b.

Sad b. Abi Waqqas, set out from Kufa with four thousand horsemen. He stopped at Ninawa and sent for 'Urwa b. Qays al-Ahmasi and told him: "Go to him (al- Husayn) and ask him: What brought you, and what do you want?" Urwa was one of those who had written to al-Husayn, peace be on him, and he was ashamed to do that. The same was the case with all the leaders who had written to him, and all of them refused and were unwilling to do that. Kathir b.

Abd Allah al-Shabi stood up - he was a brave knight who never turned his face away from anything - and said: "I will go to him.