The king sent an emissary to find out if what the judge had written was true...

The king sent an emissary to find out if what the judge had written was true, and at any rate to apprehend the man and bring him alive. The emissary found Sheikh Zainuddin bin Ali in Mecca. The Sheikh asked to be his guest until he would complete the pilgrimage. They both left for Rome. On the way, they met another person.

On being told that the Sheikh was a Shia Scholar, the stranger told the emissary, “ Do you not apprehend that this Sheikh may complain to the king that you have ill-treated him and that on such complaint the king may punish you? ” The emissary believed that such could be the case. He beheaded the Sheikh near a canal. He carried the head and left the body. During the night, the residents of the village saw radiant beings visiting the spot where the Sheik’s headless body was lying.

The next day, they buried the Sheik’s body and built a building with a dome over it. This happened in the year 966 AH. When the king was enraged to see that his emissary had killed the Sheikh and brought his head instead of following his orders, the emissary was hanged.[^2] [^1]: A Literary History of the Arabs, p. 145 [2003]. [^2]: Shahide Salis (the Third Martyr) by Mirza Muhammad…