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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Event of Taff, The Earliest Historical Account of the Tragedy of Karbala’ The First Visitor Of Al-Husayn (as) From Kufah [After the martyrdom of al-Husayn] ‘Ubaidullah bin Ziyad inquired about the noblemen of Kufah. He did not see ‘Ubaidullah bin al-Hurr [al-Ju’fi]. After a couple of days, Ibn Hurr came to Ibn Ziyad.

So he asked: “Where were you, O son of Hurr?” He replied: “I was sick.” [Ibn Ziyad] said: “Sick in soul or in body?!” He said: “As for my heart, it has not ailed. With regard to my body, Allah has granted me soundness in health!” Ibn Ziyad said to him: “You are a liar. Rather you were with our enemy.” He said: “If I was with your enemy, it would have been known. The place of someone like me is never unknown.” Ibn Ziyad [then] became inattentive of him for a moment.

So Ibn Hurr [availed the opportunity and] took his way out and mounted his horse. [After sometime] Ibn Ziyad said: “Where is Ibn al-Hurr?” “He has just left”, the people answered. Ibn Ziyad said: “Get him for me.” So [his] guards went after him and said to him: “The governor is calling you!” [Ibn al-Hurr] drove his horse and then said: “Tell him that, by Allah, I will never submit to his obedience again!” Then he left [Kufah] and went to Karbala’.

He recited in this regard: A treacherous governor, son of a traitor says: why did you not fight the martyr, son of Fatimah? I regret that I did not help him, a soul which is not rightly directed [always] regrets. Since I was not among his supporters, I am in a grief that will not part me! May Allah make the souls -that determinedly helped him- to drink from the everlasting shower [of his mercy].

[Now] that I am standing by their graves and places, I am torn apart from within and my eyes are tearful. By my life, they were valiant amidst the tumult, hurrying towards the battle and defending [al-Husayn] like lions. [Now] that they have been killed, every pious soul on the earth has become despondent. None has seen [a people] better than them, at death [they were] like chiefs and blooming flowers.

[O Ibn Ziyad] you kill them unjustly and then expect our love; leave this plan which is not favourable for us. By my life, you have rubbed our nose in the ground by killing them, what a large number of man and woman from us will take revenge from you. Many a time I intend to advance with an army against a group which has unjustly deviated from the truth.