All the people of heaven, prophets, angels and their likes, are cursing you.

All the people of heaven, prophets, angels and their likes, are cursing you. You have been cursed by the tongue of the son of Dawud, and [that] of Musa and [that] of the bearer of the Injil. See also al-Irshad (pg.248) and al-Tadhkirah (pg.270; Najaf edition). * The verse is of ‘Umar bin Mu’id Yakrub al-Zubaidi. They had waged a battle against the Banu Ziyad in retaliation to the battle fought by the latter against the Banu Zubaid.

Sibt bin al-Jawzi has briefly narrated this report in al-Tadhkirah (pg.266). He also narrates from al-Sha’bi that: “Marwan bin al-Hakam was in Madinah. So [Abd al-Malik] took the head [of al-Husayn] and placed it before [Marwan]. He touched the tip of his nose and said: ‘How excellent is [the touch of] your coldness for the hands, and [the sight] of redness on [your] cheeks!’ He then said: “By Allah! It is as if I am looking at the days of ‘Uthman!’ Ibn Abi al-Hadid writes in his…