Then we will take him back to his grandmother...

Then we will take him back to his grandmother, Fatima, daughter of Asad, and bury him alongside her according to his instructions concerning that. If he had enjoined that he should be buried alongside the Prophet, you know that you would be definitely unable to deter us from that.”[^3] When Abu Hurayra saw that, he shouted at the top of his voice: “Have you seen that if a son of Musa bin Imran died, would he be buried with his father or not?

Surely I have heard Allah’s Apostle, may Allah bless him and his family, say: ‘al-Hasan and al-Husayn are the two masters of the youths of the Garden!” History has not recorded a noble attitude for Abu Hurayra except this one. As for Marwan, he became displeased with Abu Hurayra’s saying and he shouted [^1] A‘lam al-Wara fi A‘lam al-Huda, p. 126. [^2] Al-Ya‘qubi, Tarikh, vol. 2, p. 200. [^3] Roudat al-Wa‘izeen, p. 143. A‘yan al-Shia, vol. 4, p. 81.

It is worth mentioning that this Ibn ‘Abbas is not Abdullahbin ‘Abbas, the religious scholar of the community, for he was in Damascus. This Ibn ‘Abbas is one of the sons of al-‘Abbas. He was either ‘Ubayd Allah or other than him. at him: “The tradition of Allah’s Apostle has got lost!”[^1] Aban bin ‘Uthman came out shouting at the top of his voice, saying: “Indeed this is the wonderful thing!

Should the son of the one who killed ‘Uthman be buried with Allah’s Apostle, while Abu Bakr, ‘Umar and the martyr (‘Uthman), the oppressed one, be buried in (the cemetery of) Baqee‘ al-Gharqad?”[^2] When the Hashimites saw the Umayyads’ attitude that they prevented them from burying Imam al-Hasan alongside his grandfather, they decided to fight against them. The Umayyads sided with the Umayyads, and the Hashimites sided with the Hashimites. The two parties intended to attack each other.

When Imam al-Husayn saw that, he hurried to the Hashimites and said to them: “O Banu Hashim, (fear) Allah and beware of Him! Do not lose the will of my brother. Take him to (the cemetery of) al-Baqee‘.

He had adjured me before Allah that if I was prevented from burying him with his grandfather, I should not dispute with anyone as to him and should bury him in the cemetery of al-Baqee‘ with his mother.” Then he turned to the Umayyads and said to them: “By Allah, if there had been no injunction to me from al-Hasan to prevent bloodshed and that I should not shed even a drop of blood in carrying his will his, you would have known how the swords of Allah would have taken their toll from you.