He made his wicked...

He made his wicked, dissolute and drunkard son as the caliph over those great companions; Yazeed that sinful and criminal dissolute who committed, a little time after being the ruler, his horrible crime in Kerbala against the master of the youths of Paradise, Imam Husayn (s), his family and his sincere companions…that crime which distressed the prophets and made the rocks cry. Then Yazeed, according to a covenant from his father Mo’awiya,[^1] sent the criminal Muslim bin Aqaba to attack Medina.

He committed horrible crimes against the people of Medina for three days. One thousand virgins from among the daughters of the Muhajireen and the Ansar were violated.[^2] On that day ten thousand [^1] Ibn Jareer at-Tabari in his Tareekh, vol.7 p.63, ibn Abd Rabbih in al-Iqd al-Fareed, vol. 2 when mentioning the event of al-Harrah.

Neither Yazeed nor his father had paid any attention to the saying of the Prophet (s) “Whoever frightens Medina Allah will frighten him and the curse of Allah, the angels and all the people will be on him. Allah will not forgive him on the Day of Resurrection.” Mentioned by Ahmad bin Hanbal in his Musnad, vol.4 p.96. [^2] Tareekh al-Khulafa’ by as-Sayooti.

Ibn at-Taqtaqi said in his book at-Tareekh al-Fakhri, p.107: “…it has been said that after this event when a daughter wanted to get married, her father could not guarantee her virginity and he said that she might be violated during the event of al-Harrah.” Ash-Shabrawi said in his book al-Ithaf, p.66: “…in this event about one thousand virgins were violated and about one thousand women, who had had no husbands, became pregnant.” Ibn Khillikan said in his (379) and seven hundred and eighty men of the Muhajireen, the Ansar, their offspring and the rest of the Muslims had been killed.

No one of the Muslims of Badr had remained alive after this event.[^1] A great number of women and children had also been killed. The soldiers pulled the suckling babies with their legs from their mothers’ laps and threw them against the walls and made their brains scatter before the eyes of their mothers.[^2] Then the people of Medina were ordered to pay homage to Yazeed on condition that they were considered as slaves; whether Yazeed liked to enslave them or to set them free.

The people paid homage under this condition while their monies were plundered, their bloods were shed and their women were violated. Then Muslim bin Aqaba sent the heads of the killed people of Medina to Yazeed.