The offspring of Muhammad (S) shall alight there.

The offspring of Muhammad (S) shall alight there.” After a while he said, “Alas! O soil from which some people shall enter Paradise without judgment!”[^5] Then he released his tears, and all those who were with him shed their tears, too, for seeing him thus weeping. He informed his closest followers that his son al-Husayn (‘a) would be martyred on that spot together with many youths who descend from Muhammad (S) together with his companions who are the masters of martyrs.

Nobody ever reached their lofty status, nor will any..., ever.[^6] In another statement which he (‘a) made when word was circulated that a group of young people belonging to Muhammad's family would be killed at Karbala’, he said, “The heavens and the earth shall weep for them, too.[^7] May my father be sacrificed for one whose only supporter was Allah.”[^8] Then he added saying, “Banu Umayyah shall not cease immersing themselves in their misguidance till they unjustly spill the forbidden blood during the forbidden month It is as though I look at a handsome young man swimming in his blood.

So once they do so, they will have none to seek excuses on their behalf, nor will they be able to maintain their government.”[^9] Salman the Persian once passed by Karbala’ on his way to Mada'in and said, “These are the places where my brethren will be killed, and this is the place where they will camp and their blood spilled!

Here will the son of the best of the first generations and of the last will be killed.”[^10] Jesus son of Mary (‘a) passed once by the land of Karbala’ and saw gazelle grazing. The gazelle told him that they were grazing there only because of their love for the soil of the blessed offspring of Ahmad the Prophet (S), and that they felt secure in that land. Jesus (‘a) took some of their dung, sniffed it then supplicated saying, “O Allah!

Preserve it so that his [Husayn's] father may sniff it, too, and find in it means of condolence and solace.” The dung remained there till the Commander of the Faithful (‘a) came to Karbala’. By that time, it had turned yellow due to the passage of time. He took it, sniffed it then wept. He passed it on to Ibn ‘Abbas saying, “Keep it; if you one day see it boiling in blood, you should then know that al-Husayn is killed.” He did.

On ‘Ashura Day in the afternoon, he saw it boiling in blood.[^11] [^1]: Shaikh Abul-Qasim Ja’far Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ja’far Ibn Musa Ibn Qawlawayh al-Qummi (d. 367 A.H./978 A.D.), Kamil al-Ziyarat, p. 67.