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I wish there is a ring in the nose of each and every person belonging to Banu Ziyad till the Day of Judgment, and that al-Husayn had never been killed.”[^5] One of the ways whereby al-Mukhtar dealt with him was that when he granted him security, he hired women to mourn the death of al-Husayn at the doorstep of ‘Umar Ibn Sa’d's house. This attracted the attention of passers-by to the fact that the person living inside was the one responsible for killing the Master of the Youths of Paradise.

This caused a great deal of embarrassment to Ibn Sa’d who requested al-Mukhtar to have them removed from there.

Al-Mukhtar said to him, “Does not al-Husayn (‘a) deserve to be mourned?”[^6] And when the people of Kufa wanted ‘Umar Ibn Sa’d to be their governor, following the death of Yazid son of Mu’awiyah, the women of the tribes of Hamdan and Rabi’a came to the grand mosque screaming and saying, “Was not Ibn Sa’d satisfied with killing al-Husayn so he now wants to be the governor?” People wept, turning away from him.[^7] [^1]: ’Abdullah Nur-Allah al-Bahrani, Maqtal al-’Awalim, p. 78.

[^2]: The word “million” does not exist in Arabic; instead, the Arabs say “a thousand thousands.” N. Tr. [^3]: Radiyy ad-Din al-Qazwini, Tazallum al-Zahra’, p. 103. [^4]: Ibid., p. 103. al-Khawarizmi, Maqtal al-Husayn, Vol. 1, p. 245. [^5]: al-Tabari, Tarikh, Vol. 6, p. 268. [^6]: Sayyid Muhammad Riďa al-Asterbadi al-Hilli, Al-’Iqd al-Farid, in a chapter bearing the heading “Al-Mukhtar's Uprising.” [^7]: al-Mas’udi, Muruj al-Thahab, Vol. 2, p. 105, where Yazid is discussed. Previous…