When on 28 th Rajab 60 A.

When on 28 th Rajab 60 A.H, Imam Husain -asws was leaving Madinah for Iraq Hazrat Ummul Banin -asws did not accompany him as she was looking after Syeda Fatima Sughra -asws binte Hussain -asws who was unwell and could not travel with the rest of the family. Bibi -asws sent for her four sons, Hazrat Abbas -asws , Abdullah -asws , Imran -asws and Jafar -asws and asked them to sacrifice their lives for the sacred and divine cause of Imam Husain -asws . On 10th Muharram 61A.H.

the day of martyrdom of Imam Husain -asws and his seventy two faithful companions at the planes of Karbala, Hazrat Umme Salamah -asws witnessed that the soil in a bottle given to her by the Holy Prophet -saww had turned into blood. She -asws raised the cry of “Ya Husain -asws ” Ya Husain -asws ” and declared that Imam Husain -asws has been martyred. Then Bibi Ummul Banin -asws gathered women of Madinah in her house and conducted first majlis after the martyrdom of Imam Husain -asws .

Bibi Ummul Banin -asws had such complete devoutness for Holy Prophet’s progeny that when she received the news stating the martyrdom of her four sons, she asked: “Tell me about Hussain -asws ” and when she received the news of Imam Hussain’s -asws martyrdom she said: “All of the arteries of my heart are torn apart.

May all of my children and what ever exists under this holy heavens be sacrificed for the sake of my son Hussain -asws .” Upon news of martyrdom of Mola Abbas -asws Bibi -asws said; “All praises be to Allah -azwj who accepted the sacrifice of my sons for the heartbeat of Fatima-az-Zahra -asws .” [1] After the arrival of Imam Sajjad -asws and Hazrat Zainab -asws in Madina Hazrat Ummul Banin -asws used to gather women in her house and narrate to them how Imam Husain -asws and his companions were brutally martyred by the Ummaid -la forces.

Hazrat Ummul Banin -asws was a gifted poet and she is considered as the first Noha (lamentation poetry) reciter for the martyrdom of Imam Husain -asws . Bibi Ummul Banin -asws frequently used to take Obaidullah -asws (son of Mola Abbas -asws ) to visit Jannat al-Baqi [2] in Madina where she used to recite her Hussaini dirges in such a painful and mournful voice that everyone present could not help but to cry and scream with uncontrollable passion and love for the martyrs’ of Karbala.

She transformed the Jannat al-Baqi into “the Centre of Azadari of Imam Husain -asws “.