The answer to this problem will lie in a more comprehensive study than this...

📌The answer to this problem will lie in a more comprehensive study than this, which is limited to the account of the martyrdom of the Imam al-Husayn. We have already noted that the use of 'Ammar's version is intended to be an interpretation of Ibn al-Kalbi's, and thus weakens the stature of the Imam. This is probably deliberately done by al-Tabari. However, he ignores, at least in this account, material from the `Uthmaniyya. Notes: [^59] Al-Ya`qubi, Ta'rikh (Najaf, 1964), II, 229-33.