فلما قدما خرجت امرأة من بنات عبد المطلب قيل هي زينب بنت عقيل...
فلما قدما خرجت امرأة من بنات عبد المطلب قيل هي زينب بنت عقيل ناشرة شعرها واضعة كمها على رأسها تتلقاهم و هي تبكي- ما ذا تقولون إذ قال النبي لكم إلى آخر الأبيات When they arrived, a woman from the daughters -ra of Abdul Muttalib -asws came out. It is said she -asws is Zainab Bint Aqeel -ra .
She -ra spread her -ra hair and placed her -ra scarf upon her -asws head to receive them and she -asws cried, ‘ What is that you will be saying, when the Prophet -saww says to you ’ – up to the end of the couplets.
وَ قَالَ شَهْرُ بْنُ حَوْشَبٍ بَيْنَمَا أَنَا عِنْدَ أُمِّ سَلَمَةَ إِذْ دَخَلَتْ صَارِخَةٌ تَصْرُخُ وَ قَالَتْ قُتِلَ الْحُسَيْنُ قَالَتْ أُمُّ سَلَمَةَ فَعَلُوهَا مَلَأَ اللَّهُ قُبُورَهُمْ نَاراً And Shahr Bin Howshab said, ‘While I was in the presence of Umm Salama -ra when a screaming woman entered shouting, and she said, ‘Al-Husayn -asws had been killed!’ Umm Salama -ra said, ‘They have done it. May Allah -azwj Fill their graves with fire’.
وَ نَقَلْتُ مِنْ تَارِيخِ الْبَلاذُرِيِّ أَنَّهُ لَمَّا وَافَى رَأْسُ الْحُسَيْنِ الْمَدِينَةَ سُمِعَتِ الْوَاعِيَةُ مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍ فَقَالَ مَرْوَانُ بْنُ الْحَكَمِ- ضَرَبَتْ دَوْسَرُ فِيهِمْ ضَرْبَةً- أَثْبَتَتْ أَوْتَادَ مُلْكٍ فَاسْتَقَرَّ- And it is transmitted from the history by Al-Balazuri, ‘When the (holy) head of Al-Husayn -asws arrived at Al-Medina, I heard the screaming from every side. Marwan -la Bin Al-Hakam -la said, ‘ A battalion has struck them with a strike.
The pegs of the kingdom are (now) affirmed and settled ’. ثُمَّ أَخَذَ يَنْكُتُ وَجْهَهُ بِقَضِيبٍ وَ يَقُولُ- يَا حَبَّذَا بَرْدُكَ فِي الْيَدَيْنِ- وَ لَوْنُكَ الْأَحْمَرُ فِي الْخَدَّيْنِ- كَأَنَّهُ بَاتَ بِمِجْسَدَيْنِ- شَفَيْتُ مِنْكَ النَّفْسَ يَا حُسَيْنُ Then he -la went on to tap his -asws face with the stick and saying, ‘ How lovely! Your -asws coldness is in the (my -la ) hands, and your -asws colour is red in the two cheeks. It is as if you -asws spent the night in the red cloth.
I -la have healed the soul from you -asws , O Husayn -asws ! ’’ [4] [1] نهج البلاغة (للصبحي صالح)، ص: 178, Nahjul Balagha, Sermon no. 121 [2] Bihar Al-Anwaar – V 45, The book of History – Al-Hassan -asws , Ch 39 H 1 / 7 [3] Al-Kafi, vol. 8, pg.