And which is that blood?

And which is that blood?” Imam replied, “A child was brought to Imam Husayn (a.s.), who held him in his lap, one person from among you, the Bani Asad, shot an arrow at him and severed his head. Imam gathered his blood and when both of his palms became full of the blood, he sprinkled it upon the earth and said, ‘Almighty Allah!

If You have withheld assistance from the heavens, then bestow upon us that which is better, and take our revenge from these evil-doers’.” Sibt Ibn Jawzee relates in his Tazkirah from Hisham bin Muhammad Kalbi, that when Imam Husayn (a.s.) saw them persistent on killing him, he brought the Qur’an and opening it placed it upon his head, and called out, “The Qur’an and my grandfather, the Prophet of Allah (S), are the judge between yourselves and me. O people! How do you…