True are the accounts that said that the heavens would rain blood!

True are the accounts that said that the heavens would rain blood!” He asked their permission to kiss the head, but they refused till he paid them some money. He declared his Shahada and embraced Islam through the blessing of the one who was beheaded just for supporting the divine call.

When they left that place, they looked at the money the monk had given them and saw this verse inscribed on it: “And those who oppressed shall come to find how evil their end shall be” (Qur’an, 26:227) .[^16] Is the head of Fatima's son really gifted to the Syrians? And is it with a rod hit by its killer? Are the Prophet's virtuous daughters really taken captive With their heads left without a cover, Struggling with the pain of loss, Seeing al-Husayn's head from a distance atop a spear?

They weep, and its sight prohibits patience from coming near, And his beard with his own blood drenched: Whatever wind comes teases it and whatever goes.[^17] [^1]: Ibn Tawus, Al-Luhuf, pp. 95-97. [^2]: al-Tabari, Tarikh, Vol. 6, p. 266. On p. 96, al-Tabari states that Abu Bukrah was given one week by Bishr Ibn Arta’ah to go to Mu’awiyah. He went back from Syria on the seventh day. On p.

74 of his book Muthir al-Ahzan, Ibn Nama says that ‘Amirah was dispatched by ‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Umar to Yazid in order to get him to release al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi. Yazid wrote a letter in this regard to ‘Ubaydullah Ibn Ziyad. ‘Amirah brought him the letter to Kufa, crossing the distance from [Damascus,] Syria to Kufa in eleven days. [^3]: al-Tabari, Tarikh, Vol. 6, p. 264. Ibn al-Athir, Vol. 4, p. 34. Al-Bidaya, Vol. 8, p. 191. al-Khawarizmi. al-Mufid, Al-Irshad. I’lam al-Wara, p. 149.

Ibn Tawus, Al-Luhuf, p. 97. [^4]: Ibn Hajar al-’Asqalani, Al-Isabah, Vol. 3, p. 489, where Murrah's biography is discussed. [^5]: al-Tabari, Tarikh, Vol. 6, p. 254. Al-Maqrizi, Khutat, Vol. 2, p. 288. [^6]: al-Qarmani, Tarikh, p. 108. al-Yafi’i, Mir’at al-Jinan, Vol. 1, p. 134. In both references, it is stated that the daughters of Imam al-Husayn son of ‘Ali Ibn Abu Talib (‘a) were taken into captivity, and Zayn al-’Abidin (‘a) was with them, and that he was sick.

They were driven as captives; may Allah be the Killer of those who did it. Only Ibn Taymiyyah differed from all other historians when he stated on p. 288 of his book Minhaj al-I’tidal saying that al-Husayn's women were taken to Medina after he had been killed. [^7]: On p.