Notes 1- "Ziyarat Al-Naheya Al-Moqaddasa" - for Muhammad Bin Al-Mashehadi...

3- An Arabic term used for the elite family of the Prophet (R). 4- A term used to show uselessness, just like when you decorate a dead body with silver. 5- Hujjatu Allah: an Arabic term used for the Imam of the time, who is the guide of the people to Allah, where people can come to him if they need any ruling or guidance.

6- meaning most beautiful and handsome 7- An Arabic term used for the people who had migrated to preserve their Islamic believes from the torture of the disbelievers during the first years of the Islamic revelation. 8- An Arabic term used for the supporters of the Prophet (P), who had resided in Medina and were among the first believers. 9- A sign of humiliation as they used to do this to slaves.

10- It looks from many narrations that there was a direct path between Sham and Iraq, which a traveler can usually pass it in one week, and the Arab Aqeel used to take this path. As for the Arab of Saleib, they used to go from Hooran to the Najaf in about eight days.

So, if we assume that Bin Ziad had wrote to Yazeed about the Al-Taff battle as soon as it ended, and the mail man moved with his letter on the night of the eleventh or on the eleventh day, thus we can presume, on a basis that the mailing period is one week, that the letter reached Damascus approximately on the seventeenth day of Muharram.

And if we suppose that the mail moved from Damascus to Kufa with Yazeed’s reply on the same day, so it is also possible that it would have reached Kufa on the twenty fourth day of Muharram.