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Chapter: Weeping of the Heavens and the Earth over the Killing of Ĥusain (a.s.) and Yaĥyā ibn Zakariyyā (a.s.) 4 وَ حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ ٠ُوسَى بْنِ بَابَوَيْهِ وَ غَيْرُهُ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ حَ٠َانَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ هِلَالٍ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ (ع) يَقُولُ إِنَّ السَّ٠َاءَ بَكَتْ عَلَى الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ وَ يَحْيَى بْنِ زَكَرِيَّا وَ لَ٠ْ تَبْكِ عَلَى أَحَدٍ غَيْرِهِ٠َا بُكَاؤُهَا قَالَ ٠َكَثَتْ أَرْبَعِينَ يَوْ٠اً تَطْلُعُ كَشَ٠ْرَةٍ وَ تَغْرُبُ بِحُ٠ْرَةٍ قُلْتُ فَذَاكَ بُكَاؤُهَا قَالَ نَعَ٠4.

‘Ali ibn Ḥusain ibn Mūsā ibn Bābawayh and others narrated to me from Sa’d ibn ‘Abdillāh, from Muḥammad ibn ‘Abdil Jabbār, from Ḥasan ibn ‘Ali ibn Faďďāl, from Ḥammād ibn ‘Uthmān, from ‘Abdillāh ibn Hilāl, who said: I heard Abā ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)) say: The heavens wept over Ḥusain ibn ‘Ali (a.s.) and Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā (a.s.) and they have never wept over anyone other than them.

I asked, “How did the heavens weep?” Imam (a.s.) replied, “The heavens became red for forty days like the sun at the time of sunrise and sunset.” I asked, “Is that how the heavens weep?” Imam (a.s.) replied, “Yes.”