When the heads were thrown before Yazeed...

When the heads were thrown before Yazeed, he became delighted and he recited some verses of poetry. After that Muslim bin Aqaba went to fight ibn az-Zubayr, who had been paid homage as the caliph in Mecca. On his way to Mecca, Muslim bin Aqaba died. Then al-Husayn bin Numayr became the leader of the army by an order of Yazeed. He moved with his army until he arrived at Mecca. He ordered his army to set up mangonels towards Mecca.

He ordered his men to throw Mecca with ten thousand stones in one day. The army blockaded Mecca for four months and kept on fighting every day until the news of Yazeed’s death came. The mangonels had hit the Kaaba and destroyed it besides the fire that had been set on it. The horrible crimes of Yazeed since the beginning of his life until his death were more than to be included in the books or to be written down by the pens. They had deformed the face of history and blackened its pages.

His father Mo’awiya always saw the dogs, Wafiyyatul A’yan when mentioning this event: “Yazeed bin Mo’awiya, during his rule, has sent an army under the leadership of Muslim bin Aqaba to Medina. The army has plundered Medina and has driven its people to al-Harrah where the event has taken place.

Many horrible crimes have been committed by Muslim bin Aqaba and his army…it has been said that after this event of al-Harrah more than one thousand virgins of Medina have become pregnant because of libertinism that has spread by the army of Yazeed.” [^1] Ibn Qutayba in his book al-Imama wes-Siyasa and other historians. [^2] Al-Imama wes-Siyasa by ibn Qutayba, p.200.

(380) monkeys, hawks and tigers of his son Yazeed, noticed his wines and corruptions, knew his horrible deeds, saw his playfulness with the beauties, knew his meanness and malice and knew well that he could not be entrusted with anything at all. After all that how could Mo’awiya raise Yazeed to the high position of the caliphate of the messenger of Allah, make him the ruler, the imam of the Muslims and make him control the necks of the umma?!