Naturally differences between different writers may concern...

Naturally differences between different writers may concern only some of these sections and reports if only some of these occur in early writings. I have adopted the following divisions: (i) the situation prior to the death of Mu`awiya after the death of the Imam al-Husayn; (ii) Yazid's succession and his attempt to get the Imam al-Husayn to pay homage to him, followed by the latter's retreat to Mecca; (iii) the letters to the Imam al-Husayn from Knfa; (iv) the mission of Muslim b.

📌`Aqil to Kufa and the appointment and activities of Ibn Ziyad as governor of Kufa; (v) the Imam al-Husayn's journey to Karbala'; (vi) negotiations with `Umar b. Sa'd and the Kufan army; (vii) the battle and the death of the Imam al-Husayn; (viii) the desecration of his head and the treatment of his family. Notes: [^1] Al-Tusi, Fihrist (Mashhad, 1348sh), p. 63. [^2] Al-Najashi, Rijal (Teheran, n.d.), p. 100.

[^3] This account was probably not a monograph but it represents a substantial, continuous piece. It is recorded in al-Tabari, Ta'rikh al-Rusul wa-al-Muluk (Leiden 1881-3),11, 227-32, 281-3. [^4] That he had an account can be assumed from the extracts used by Ibn al-Kalbi in al-Tabaris version. [^5] On Abu Mikhnaf, see U. Sezkin, Abu Mikhnaf (Leiden, 1971). [^6] Most of his account is preserved by al-Tabari. [^7] Ibn Nadim, Fihrist, tr. Bayard Dodge (New York, 1970), I, 215. [^8] Al-Tusi, op.

cit., p. 347. [^9] Al-Mufid, Kitab al-Irshad, tr. I. K. A. Howard (London, 1981), p. 300.…

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