Expose them to the severest of hardships.

Expose them to the severest of hardships.” He instantly dispatched ‘Amr Ibn al-Hajjaj with five hundred horsemen to the watering place[^9] three days before al-Husayn's martyrdom.[^10] [^1]: ’Abdullah Nur-Allah al-Bahrani, Maqtal al-’Awalim, p. 15 and p. 45. [^2]: Al-Dinawari, Al-Akhbar al-Tiwal, p. 253. [^3]: According to p. 10, Vol. 6, of Al-Bid' wal Tarikh, his name is written as Bishr Ibn Thul-Jawshan.

In ‘Ujalat al-Mubtadi' fil Nasab by the hafiz Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Abu ‘Uthman al-Hazimi al-Hamadani (d. 584 A.H./1188 A.D.), his name is Shur Ibn Thul-Jawshan. His father is said to be a narrator of traditions, and Shur quotes him. [^4]: Ibn Shahr Ashub, Vol. 2, p. 215. [^5]: Ibn Nama, Al-Luhuf. [^6]: as-Saduq, Amali, p. 71 (majlis 30). According to Matalib al-Sa'ul, their number was twenty thousand.

According to Hamish Tathkirat al-Khawass, they were one hundred thousand, whereas Ibn Shadqam, in his book Tuhfat al-Azhar, says that they numbered eighty thousand. According to p. 237 of Asrar al-Shahada of Sayyid Kaď