” She asked him to do so, whereupon he showed her the graves of his companions.

” She asked him to do so, whereupon he showed her the graves of his companions.[^11] Then he gave her a little of that soil, telling her to keep it in a bottle. Once she saw it boiling in blood, she would know that he had been slain.

On the tenth day of the month of Muharram, in the after-noon, she looked at both bottles [the one given to her by the Messenger of Allah and the other given to her by Imam Husayn (‘a)]; they were both boiling in blood.[^12] View of The Hashimite Ladies His departure very much grieved the daughters of Banu ‘Abd al-Muttalib who assembled for a group mourning.

“I plead to you in the Name of Allah,” al-Husayn (‘a) said to them after going to their place of gathering, “not to reveal this matter in disobedience to Allah and His Messenger (S).” They said, “Who should we save weeping and mourning for, since the day of your departure to us is like the demise of the Messenger of Allah (S), that of ‘Ali, Fatima, al-Hasan (‘a), Zainab, or Umm Kulthum?!

We plead to you, may Allah consider us as your sacrificial ransom from your own demise, O one loved by the righteous from among those who reside in the graves!” Some of his paternal aunts informed him that they had heard a voice saying:[^13] The one slain at al- Taff from Banu Hashim Dishonoured necks from Quraish, so they are abased. Al-Husayn (‘a) admonished her to be patient, telling her that that was something already decreed.

View Of ‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Umar Abdullah son of [second caliph] ‘Umar Ibn al-Khattab asked al-Husayn (‘a) to remain in Medina, but al-Husayn (‘a) refused saying, “O ‘Abdullah! One of the reasons why this whole world is worthless in the eyes of Allah is that the head of Yahya (John the Baptist) was given as a present to one of the tyrants of the Israelites, and that my head will be given as a present to one of the Umayyad tyrants.

Have you not come to know that the Israelites used to kill seventy prophets as the sun rose then buy and sell as if they did nothing?! Yet Allah was not swift in punishing them.

After some time, He seized them, the Omnipotent and the Vengeful Lord that He is.”[^14] Once Ibn ‘Umar was convinced that al-Husayn (‘a) was determined to leave Medina and to face the promoters of misguidance in order to put an end to abominations and to remove the thorns from the path of the sacred Shari’a , he said to him (‘a), “O Abu ‘Abdullah!