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Some Traditions on Imam al-Husain (AS)

In this article, I would like to present some of the
traditions recorderded

in the Sunni collections of the traditions Regarding him:

The Messenger of Allah said:
"Al-Hasan and al-Husain are the chiefs of

the youth of Paradise and Fatimah is
the chief of their women.

"

Sunni references:

(1) Sahih al-Tirmidhi, v5, p660, on the authority of Abu
Sa'id and Hudhayfa

(2) Sunan Ibn Majah, Introduction 8

(3) al-Tabarani, on the authorities of: Umar, Ali, Jabir, Abu
Hurayrah,

Usamah Ibn Zaid, al-Baraa, Ibn 'Adi, and
Ibn Masud.

(4) al-Kubra, by al-Nisa'i

(5) Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v1, pp 62,82, v3, pp 3,64, v5,
p391

(6) Fada'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Hanbal, v2, p771, Tradition
#1360

(7) al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, pp 166,167

(8) Hilyatul Awliyaa, by Abu Nu'aym, v5, p71

(9) Majma' al-Zawa'id, by al-Haythami, v9, p187

(10) Tuhfatul Ashraf, by Lumzi, v3, p31

(11) Ibn Habban, as mentioned in al-Mawarid, pp 551,553

(12) al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar Haythami, Ch.

11,
section 3, p290

(13) Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English
Version, Tdadition #6154

Also it is narrated that:

The Messenger of Allah said: "Husain
is from me and I am from Husain.

"

Sunni references:

(1) Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v4, p172

(2) Fadha'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Hanbal, v2, p772, Tradition
#1361

(3) al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p 177

(4) Amali, by Abu Nu'aym al-Isbahani, p 64

(5) al-Kuna wal Asmaa, by al-Dulabi, v1, p88

(6) al-Tabarani, v3, p21

(7) Adab by al-Bukhari, also al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah, as
quoted in:

(8) al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar Haythami, Ch.

11,
section 3, p291

(9) Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English
Version, Tdadition #6160

The last part of the above tradition probably means that Imam
Husain (AS),

by sacrificing himself and his family, preserved the religion
of Prophet

Muhammad (PBUH&HF) from full annihilation.

Abu Huraira narrated:

The Prophet (PBUH) looked toward
Ali, Hasan, Husain, and Fatimah (AS),

and then said: "I am in war
with those who will fight you, and in

peace with those who are peaceful to
you.

"

Sunni references:

(1) Sahih al-Tirmidhi, v5, p699

(2) Sunan Ibn Majah, v1, p52

(3) Fadha'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v2, p767,
Tradition #1350

(4) al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, p149

(5) Majma' al-Zawa'id, by al-Haythami, v9, p169

(6) al-Kabir, by al-Tabarani, v3, p30, also in al-Awsat

(7) Jami' al-Saghir, by al-Ibani, v2, p17

(8) Tarikh, by al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi, v7, p137

(9) Sawaiq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, p144

(10) Talkhis, by al-Dhahabi, v3, p149

(11) Dhakha'ir al-Uqba, by al-Muhib al-Tabari, p25

(12) Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English
Version, Tdadition #6145

Also:

The Messenger of Allah said:
"He who loves al-Hasan and al-Husain,

loved me, and he who makes them
angry has made me angry.

"

Sunni reference:

- Sunan Ibn Majah,

- al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, from Abu Hurairah

- Musnad Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, as quited in:

- al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar Haythami, Ch.

11,
section 3, p292

It has been narrated in two wordings that:

The Messenger of Allah said: "I
named Hasan and Husain and Muhsin the

names of the sons of Aaron (Haroon)
who were: Shubbar, Shubair, and

Mushbir.

"

Sunni references:

(1) Sunan Abu Dawud al-Tilyasi, v1, p232 (without mentioning
Muhsin)

(2) Fadha'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v2, p774,
Tradition #1365

(3) al-Mustadrak, by al-Hakim, v3, pp 165,168

(4) Kashf al-Astar, by al-Bazzar, v2, p416

(5) Ibn Habban, as quoted in al-Mawarid, p551

(6) al-Tabarani, v3, p100

(7) Idhaah, Abdul Ghani, from Salman al-Farsi

(8) al-Mu'jam, by al-Baghawi, as quoted in:

(9) al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar Haythami, Ch.

11,
section 3, p292

The third son of Lady Fatimah (AS) who was pre-named by the
Prophet as

Muhsin, was miscarried shortly after the demise of Prophet.

Usamah ibn Zayd narrated:

I went to the Prophet (PBUH&HF)
one night about something I required

and he came out with something (I
did not know what) under his cloak.

When I had finished telling him my
business I asked him what he had

under his cloak, and when he opened
it I saw al-Hasan and al-Husayn on

his hips.

He then said,
"These are my sons and my daughter's sons.

O

Allah, I love them, so I beseech
Thee to love them and those who love

them.

"

Sunni References:

- Sahih Tirmidhi, per:

- Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English Version,
Tdadition #6156

Anas ibn Malik Narrated:

When Allah's Messenger (PBUH&HF)
was asked which member of his family

was dearest to him, he replied,
"Al-Hasan and al-Husain.

" He used to

say to Fatimah, "Call my two
sons to me," and then would sniff and

cuddle them.

Sunni References:

- Sahih Tirmidhi, per:

- Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English Version,
Tdadition #6158

Imam Husain (AS) said: "Don't
you see that the truth is not followed

and the falsehood is not
discouraged? (The situation is so severe) so

that a Believer wishes to meet Allah
(i.

e.

, to die).

And today I don't

see death but prosperity, and living
with tyrants is nothing but

disgust and disgrace."

Sunni Reference: Hilyatul Awliyaa, by Abu Nu'aym, v2, p39

Imam Husain (AS) said in the day of
Ashura: "If you do not have any

religion, then at least be free
(open-minded) in your present life."

Imam Husain (AS) said: "By
Allah, I shall not give my oath to you like

a humiliated one, and nor shall I
flee like the captive."

al-Bukhari Narrated from Ibn Abi Na'm:

I have heard Prophet saying:
"They (Hasan and Husain) are my two sweet-

smelling flowers in this world.

"

Sunni Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari, Arabic-English, v8,
Tradition #23

Again al-Bukhari narrated from Ibn Abi Nu'm:

A person asked Abdullah Ibn Umar
whether a Muslim could kill flies.

I heard him saying (in reply):
"The people of Iraq are asking about

the killing of flies while they
themselves murdered the son of the

daughter of Allah's Apostle .

The
Prophet said, They (i.

e.

Hasan and

Husain) are my two sweet basils in
this world.

"

Sunni Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari, Arabic-English, v5,
Tradition #96

Narrated Anas Ibn Malik said:

"The head of al-Husain was
brought to Ubaidullah Ibn Ziyad and was put

in a tray, and then Ibn Ziyad
started playing with a stick at the nose

and mouth of al-Husain's head, and
saying something about his handsome

features.

" Anas then said
(to him): "Al-Husain resembled the Prophet

more than any other people.

"

Sunni Reference: Sahih al-Bukhari, Arabic-English, v5,
Tradition #91

Imam Husain said: "I revolted
not for wickedness nor for fame.

Verily

I rose only to seek for
rectification in the nation of my grandfather,

The Messenger of Allah.

Imam Husain said: "The true
life is all having a strong idea and

striving (for that idea).

Imam Husain said: "People are the slaves of this world,
and religion

is just in their tong.

They
keep it as long as it meets their

comfortable life.

But when
the test comes, religion holders become

very few.

"

--=--

Peace, with sception and hope, I seek,

(congruity's scope I know is bleak)

To mend I crave (rather than kill)

To spill blood, abhor I will.

Intend I do, no
force to use (If sense in you I can infuse)

But the rules, supreme, of the divine faith

Resolved I am, to defend till death.

Face your hostile moves I will.

Thought accord I covet, seek peace still.

A holy war it means indeed

If waged to crush the devil's creed.

No rancor, against you,' I hold

But faith do cherish - as I told.

Islam I will resolutely shield

Burnt will stand and never yield.

Would welcome death (and make it tame)

Would rather die than live in shame.

Your Prophet's scion I'm - you know

At least some regard to his name show.

His singular dictum is my creed:

"Universal good" I adore, indeed.

Ali, the paragon, the seraphic Imam

Cham of the faith, the shield of Islam

Inimitable, impeccable: I am his son

His peerless attributes I have won.

My heart is virtues' abode and nest

Blessedness harbors in my breast.

--=--

=

The Prophet Crying For Imam al-Husain

=

Narrated Salma:

"I went to visit Umm Salamah
and found her weeping.

I asked her what

was making her weep and she replied
that she had seen Allah's

Messenger (PBUH&HF) (meaning in
a dream) with dust on his head and

beard.

She asked him what
was the matter and he replied, I have just

been present at the slaying of al-Husayn.

'"

- Sahih Tirmidhi, per:

- Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English Version,
Tdadition #6157

Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas:

One day at midday he saw in a dream
the Prophet (PBUH&HF) dishevelled

and dusty with a bottle containing
blood in his hand and said, "You

for whom I would give my father and
mother as ransom, what is this?"

He replied, "This is the blood
of al-Husayn and his companions which I

have been collecting today.

"
He told that he was reckoning that time

and found that he had been killed at
that time.

- Musnad Ahmad Hanbal;

- Dala'il an-Nubuwwah, by al-Bayhaqi; per:

- Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English Version,
Tdadition #6172

Aisha narrated:

The Prophet (PBUH&HF) said:
"Gabriel informed me that my grandson al-

Husain (AS) will be killed after me
in the land of al-Taff and brought

me this Turbah (mudd/soil) and
informed me that this is the soil of

the place he will be martyred.

"

Sunni reference:

- Tabaqat, by Ibn Sa'd,

- al-Tabarani, as quoted in:

- al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar Haythami, Ch.

11,
section 3, p292

Not only human beings, but also the Jinns mourn for Imam al-Husain.

It
has

been narrated that after his (AS) martyrdom:

Um Salama (the wife of Prophet (S))
said: I heard the Jinns (the

unseen creatures) mourning for al-Husain.

"

Sunni references:

(1) Tarikh al-Kabir, by al-Bukhari (the author of Sahih), v4,
part 1, p26

(2) Fada'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v2, p776,
Tradition #1373

(3) Tabarani, v3, pp 130-131

(4) Tahdhib, v7, p404

As for the Shi'ite references, there is a traditions from the
Prophet

(PBUH&HF) that: "When al-Khidr (AS) met Moses (AS),
he explained and

forecast the catastrophe of Karbala (the place where this
tragedy took

place) in the day of Ashura for Moses, and the calamities
that will happen

on that day, and then both al-Khidr and Moses cried and
screamed severely.

"

Also Ibn Abbas (RA) narrated that he met Imam Ali (AS) in
Ziqar, and Imam

Ali pulled out a book that was written of the words of
Prophet (PBUH&HF) in

which the Prophet had explained the tragedy of Ashura and the
slaughtering

of his grandson al-Husain and how he will be killed and who
kills him and

who assist them and who will be martyred with him.

Then
Imam Ali (AS)

screamed severely and caused Ibn Abbas (RA) to cry.

=

Umayad Sanctifying Ashura

=

Bani Umayyah (Umayad) forced people to celebrate the day of
Ashura (10th of

Muharram) as a blessed day, and encouraged people to buy and
store their

annual food on that day and to fast that day as Sunnah, by
fabricating

traditions in this regard which were solely designed to
overshadow and to

cover up the great catastrophe of the slaughtering the
household of Prophet

(PBUH&HF).

To make people believe that Ashura is a blessed day, day
fabricated that it

was in that day when Allah saved Bani Israel from Pharaoh.

this
is while

Moses (AS) and his companions were saved and passed the Nile
river in the

month of Rabiul-Awwal.

They also invented that the repentance of Adam was accepted
on that day,

while it was accepted in the month of Zil-Hajjah.

They
say that it was the

day that Jonah (Yunos) was saved from the body of fish and
the ark of Noah

was settled on earth while it was on the 18th of Zil-Hajjah.

All
those

traditions were fabricated By Bani Umayyah to cover their
crimes.

Imran ibn Husayn narrated that:

The Prophet (PBUH&HF) at the
time of his death disliked three tribes:

Thaqif, the Banu Hanifah and the
Banu Umayyah.

- Sahih Tirmidhi, per:

- Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English Version,
Tdadition #5983

"The Children of Umayad shall
ascend to my pulpit.

I have seen them in

my dreams jumping on my pulpit like
monkeys.

"

Then the Prophet said that the
following verse was revealed about the

Umayad :

And We made that dream, which We
have shown you, only as a test to the

people and the cursed tree in the
Quran.

And We warn them but it only

increases their extreme
transgression! (17:60)

Sunni references:

- Sharh Ibn Abi al-Hadid, Volume 3 page 81

Printed by Mohammad Ali Subaih in Egypt

- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi in his commentary of the Holy Quran

Chapter 17 Volume 5 Pages 413 - 414

Second Printing by al-Matbaah al-Sarafeyah 1304 H

Ashura is the day of mourning and lamentation.

In a
tradition from Ahlul-

Bayt, it is said that "whoever celebrates this day as a
blessed day, he

will be resurrected in the day of judgment with Yazid.

"
The reason is

clear, and it is because there are traditions from Prophet (PBUH&HF),
every

body who is pleased with an action, he will be resurrected in
the day of

judgment with the one who did that action.

Performing
a non-obligatory

Fasting is a sign of being pleased and a sign of happiness.

I know you say such traditions are narrated in Sahih xxxx.

But
remember

that there are many contradictory reports are within these
xxxx which

disprove your hypothesis as being Sahih books.

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Bismillah-hirehman-nirraheem

Muhammad came in the kingdom of God,

as a messenger of peace as the master of creed.

He influenced the world with Ali's help,

and all the sons from his daughter's breed.

Fatima the lady of God's paradise,

Ali the warrior, the leader, the wise.

Hassan, the heir of eternal lore,

Hussain, the martyr, the heaven's door.

Call Ali in the trouble, Almighty says,

because in his presence the evil decays.

He's the lion of God, he's the sword of God,

and all his believers are one righteous squad.

Islam's prosperity is the gift of Hussain,

in the way of God, he sacrificed his clan.

He gave his head but not his grace,

His martyrdom is a slap on the devils face.

The grandson of prophet decided to fight,

to unveil the Satan, and bring him in light.

The food was banned, the water was stopped,

but on his mind the triumph had topped.

Zainab was with her brother all the time,

and participated as much to demolish the crime.

Her surety was Abbas, the holder of the flag,

whose hand on the emblem is the victory's tag.

The thirst was a menace, the hunger a threat,

an example for all the mankind was set.

But the righteuos fought, and died on the faith,

and the right won, against the evils wraith.

More Sayings from the Holy Prophet about Imam Husain:

1.

Whosoever wishes to such a person who lives on
earth but whose

dignity is honoured by the
Heaven-Dwellers, should see my

grandson Husain.

2.

O my son! Thy flesh is my flesh and thy blood
is my blood; thou

art a leader, the son of a leader and the
brother of a leader;

thou art a spiritual guide, the son of a
spiritual guide and

the brother of a spiritual guide; thou art
an Imam the son of an

Imam and the brother of an Imam; thou art
the father of nine Imams,

the ninth of whom would be the Qaim (the
last infallible spiritual

guide)

3.

The punishment inflicted on the murderer of
Husain in hell would

be equal to half of the total punishment
to be imposed on the

entire sinners of the world.

4.

When the Holy Prophet informed Lady Fatima of
the Martyrdom in

store for his grandson, she burst into
tears as asked "O my father!

when would my son be martyred?"
"In such a critical moment," replied

the Holy Prophet, "when neither I nor
you, nor Ali would be alive.

"

This accentuated her grief and she
inquired again, "Who then, O my

father, would commemorate Husain's
Martyrdom?" The Holy Prophet

said, "The men and the women of a
particular group of my followers,

who will befriend my Ahlul Bayt, will
mourn for Husain and

commemorate his martyrdom each year in
every century.

"