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Tragedy of
Karbala as reported by the Sunnis (Part VIII)

Shamir b.

Dhi al-Jawshan turned back against them
but (some) of his

men were killed and the rest retreated to their positions.

(The

number) of killed was apparent among the followers of al-Husayn,

peace be on him, because of the fewness of their number while
it was

not so apparent among the followers of 'Umar b.

Sa'd
because of

their great number.

The battle (continued to be)
fought fiercely and

desperately.

The number killed and wounded among
the followers of

Abu 'Abd Allah al-Husayn, peace be on him, continued to grow
until

the sun began to decline.

Al-Husayn and his
companions prayed the

prayer according to the rite of the prayer of fear.

Hanzala b.

Sa'd al-Shibami advanced in front of al-Husayn,
peace

be on him, and called out:

People of Kufa, O people fear for you the same (that
happened)

on the Day of Parties.

If earforyou on the Day of
Summoning

[ XL : 30,32 ].

O people, do not kill al-Husayn,
for God will

destroy you with punishment.

He who forges a lie
will be

disappointed.

[ XX, 61 ]

He advanced and fought until he was killed, may God have
mercy

on him.

After that, Shawdhab, retainer (mawla) of
Shakir, went

forward, (after saying): "Greetings, Abu 'Abd Allah and
may God

store his mercy and blessings for you.

"

He fought until he was killed, may God have mercy on him.

Then

came Abis b.

Shabib al-Shakiri.

He
greated al-Husayn, peace be on

him, and fought until he was killed.

Each man of
(al-Husayn's)

followers continued to go forward and be killed until there
only

remained with al-Husayn, peace be on him, the members of his
own

House.

His son, Ali b.

al-Husayn, peace be on them, whose
mother was

Layla daughter of Abu Murra b.

Urwa b.

Masud
al-Thaqafi, was

(the next) to advance.

He was one of the most
handsome men of the

time.

On that day he was nineteen years of age.

He
attacked the

enemy declaring:

I am
Ali b.

al-Husayn b.

Ali.

By the
House of God, we

are
those rightly (endowed) with the Prophet.

By
God, the son of a spurious son will not judge us.

I

will
strike with my sword in defence of my father.

I will
strike with the blow of a Hashimi, a Qurayshi.

He did that several times, and the Kufans were afraid to kill
him.

Then Murra b.

Munqidh al-Abdi saw him.

He
said: "May the

felonies of the Arabs come on me, if he gets past me doing
the same as

he has been doing, (and) if I do not deprive his mother of
him.

"

('Ali b.

al-Husayn) continued to attack the enemy
as he had been

doing but then Murra b.

Munqidh came against him
and stabbed

him.

He was struck down and the enemy fell upon
him, cutting him

with their swords.

Al-Husayn, peace be on him, went
out until he

stood over him and said:

May
God kill (the) people who killed you, my son.

How
fool

hardy
they are against the Merciful and in violating the

sacredness of the family of the Apostle, may God bless him

and
his family.

His eyes filled with tears and he said: "There will
(only) be dust on

the world after you.

"

Zaynab, the sister of al-Husayn, peace be on him, came
hurrying

out, crying: "My brother, my nephew!"

She came up and threw herself on (her dead nephew).

Al-Husayn

raised her head and then led her back to the tent.

He
told his young

(sons): "Carry your brother back.

"

They carried him and put him before the tent which they had
been

fighting in front of.

(Then) one of 'Umar b.

Sad's
men called 'Amr b.

Subayh shot an arrow at 'Abd Allah b.

Muslim b.

Aqil.

Abd
Allah

put his hand to guard his brow.

The arrow struck
his hand and

penetrated through his brow, and riveted the hand to it.

He
was not

able to move it when another man came down on him with a
spear,

thrust it into his heart, and killed him.

Abd Allah b.

Qutba al-Ta'i attacked Awn b.

'Abd
Allah b.

Ja'far b.

Abi Talib and killed him.

Amir b.

Nashhal al-Tamimi attacked Muhammad b.

Abd
Allah

b.

Ja'far b.

Abi Talib and killed him.

Uthman b.

Khalid al-Hamdam launched himself against
'Abd al-

Rahman b.

'Aqil b.

Abi Talib, and killed
him.

[Humayd b.

Muslim reported:]

It was like that among us (i.

e.

many of al-Husayn's
supporters had

been killed by 'Umar b.

Sa'd's army) when a young
lad came out

against us.

His face was young like the first
splinter of the new moon

and he carried a sword.

He was wearing a shirt and
a waistcloth (izar),

and a pair of sandals, one of whose straps was broken.

'Umar
b.

Sa'd b.

Nufayl al-Azdi said to me: "et me
attack him.

" I said:

Praise be to God, what do you want to do that for? Leave

him.

While even one of the family of al-Husayn
remains,

that will be enough to take vengeance on you for his (death).

But he insisted: "By God, let me attack him.

"

So he rushed against him and did not turn back until he had
struck

his head with his sword and split it in two.

The
young lad fell face

downwards and he called out: "O uncle!"

At this, al-Husayn, peace be on him, showed himself just like
the

hawk shows itself.

He launched into attack like a
raging lion and

struck Umar b.

Sad b.

Nufayl with his
sword.

That man tried to fend

off the blow with his arm but his arm was cut off from the
elbow, and

he gave a great shriek (of pain) which was (even) heard by
the people

in the camp.

As al-Husayn, peace be on him, turned
away from him,

the cavalry of Kufa attacked in order to save him but they
(only

succeeded) in trampling him to death beneath the horses'
hooves, and

the dust rose.

I saw al-Husayn, peace be on him, standing by the head of the

young lad, looking at his feet and al-Husayn, peace be on him
was

saying:

May the
people who have caused your death perish.

For

the one who
will oppose them on the Day of Resurrection

on your
behalf will be your grandfather (Ali, or great

grandfather,
i.

e.

the Prophet).

Then he continued:

By God, it
is hard on your uncle that you called him and

he did not
answer you, or rather he answered but your cry

was (too
late) to help you.

For by God, those who kill his

relatives
are many but those who help him are few.

Then he carried him in his arms.

It is just as if
(even now) I am

looking at the two legs of the boy making marks (as they
trail) on the

ground.

He took him and put him with his son, 'Ali
b.

al-Husayn, peace

be on them both, and the other members of the household who
had been

slain.

I asked about the boy and was told that he
was al-Qasim b.

al-Hasan

b.

Ali b.

Abl Talib, peace be on them.

Then al-Husayn, peace be on him, sat in front of the tent.

He

brought his son, 'Abd Allah b.

al-Husayn, peace be
on him, who was

(just) a baby and sat him on his knee.

But one of
the Banu Asad shot

an arrow which slaughtered the child.

Al-Husayn,
peace be on him,

caught the child's blood in the palm of his hand.

When
his palm was

full, he poured (the blood) on to the ground and said:

O Lord, if
it be so that You have kept the help of Heaven

from us,
then let it be because (Your purpose) is better

than
(immediate help).

Take vengeance on these people
who

are (such)
oppressors.

Then he carried the child and laid him with the (other)
members of his

household who had been slain.

(Just then) Abd Allah b.

Uqba al-Ghanawi shot an
arrow at Abu

Bakr b.

al-Hasan b.

Ali, peace be on
them, and killed him.

When

al-Abbas b.

Ali saw the number of his family who
had been killed,

he said to his brothers on his mother's side, Abd Allah,
Ja'far and

Uthman:

My brothers
through my mother, go forward so that I may see

that you
have remained true to God and His Apostle.

For you

have no
children (to defend).

Abd Allah, may God have mercy on him, advanced and fought

fiercely.

He exchanged blows with Hani' b.

Shabib
al-Hadrami and

Hani' killed him.

After him Ja'far went forward and
Hani' also killed

him.

Khawali b.

Yazid al-Asbahi, may God
curse him, went against

Uthman who had taken the place of his brother.

He
fired an arrow at

him and brought him down.

One of the Banu Darim
attacked him

(while he was down) and cut off his head.

The group then launched an attack against al-Husayn, peace be
on

him, and cut off his access to his camp.

His thirst
became severe, and

he set off towards the dam, trying to reach the Euphrates.

In
front of

him was his brother, al-'Abbas.

However, the
calvary of Ibn Sa'd,

may God curse him, blocked his route.

Among these
was a man from

the Banu Darim; he said to (the cavalry):

Woe upon
you! Prevent him from reaching the Euphrates, don't

let him get
water.

Then al-Husayn, peace be on him, cried out: "O God, I am

thirsty.

" The Dariml became angry and shot an arrow
at him which

lodged in his throat.

Al-Husayn, peace be on him,
pulled out the

arrow and held his hand below his throat.

Both his
palms were filled

with blood which he shook away, then he said:

O God, I
complain to You about what is being done to the son

of the
daughter of Your Prophet.

Then he returned to his position, while his thirst had become
(even

more) severe.

Meanwhile the people had surrounded al-Abbas and cut
him off

from (al-Husayn).

Single-handed he began to attack
them until he

was killed, may God have mercy on him.

The two who
took part in

killing him were Zayd b.

Warqa al-Hanafi and Hahm
b.

al-Tufail al-

Shabsi, after he had been covered with wounds and could not
move.

[ The account of al Abbas death is missing from Tabari ]

When al-Husayn, peace be on him, came back from the dam to
his

tents, Shamir b.

Dhi al-Jawshan advanced towards
him with a group

of his followers and surrounded him.

The fastest of
them was a man

called Malik b.

al-Nusayr al-Kindi.

He
cursed al-Husayn, peace be on

him, and struck him on the head with his sword.

(Al-Husayn)
was

wearing a cap.

(The sword) went through it right
into his head and

made it bleed.

The cap was filled with blood.

Al-Husayn, peace be on him, said to him:

May you
never eat or drink with your right hand! May God

gather you
(on the Day of Judgement) with those people who

are
wrong-doers.

Then he threw away the cap and called for a cloth which he
tied around

his head.

Then he called for another cap, put it on
and bound it (in

place).

[ The above portion is missing from the account of Tabari ]

Shamir b.

Dhi al-Jawshan and those who were with
him had

withdrawn from him to their (earlier) positions.

After
a short delay

they came again against him and surrounded him.

'Abd
Allah b.

al-

Hasan b.

Alieace be on them, came out against them,
he was only a

boy, not yet mature enough to leave the women.

He
rushed forward

until he stood beside his uncle, al-Husayn, peace be on him.

Then

Zaynab, the daughter of Ali, peace be on him, came after him
to stop

him, and al Husayn, peace be on him, told her to stop him.

However

he refused (to take any notice of her) and determinedly
prevented her

(from taking him away).

He said: "By God, I
will not leave my

uncle.

"

(At this) Abjar b.

Ka'b rushed towards al-Husayn,
peace be on

him.

With sword (in hand), the young lad said to
him: "Woe upon

you, you son of an impure woman, are you trying to kill my
uncle?"

Abjar struck at him with his sword.

The boy tried
to fend off (the

blow) with his arm.

The sword cut through (his arm)
to the skin (on

the other side).

There was the arm hanging (by the
skin).

The boy

cried out: "O my mother!" Al-Husayn took hold of
him and

embraced him.

He said to him:

My nephew, try to bear what has come to you and be comforted
with

the news that God will unite you with your righteous
ancestors.

Then al-Husayn, peace be on him, raised his hand and said:

O God, even
as You have made life pleasant for them for a time,

divide them
into factions and make them follow the ways of

factions and
let their rulers never be pleased with them.

They

summoned us
so that they might support us and then they became

hostile to
us and killed us.

[ Abjar is mentioned as Bahr in Tabari ]

The foot-soldiers launched an attack from right and left
against

those who were left with al-Husayn, peace be on him, until
only a

group of three or four remained with him.

When
al-Husayn, peace be

on him saw that, he called for a pair of dazzling Yemen
trousers

(sarawil).

He tore them and put them on.

He
tore them so that he

should not have them plundered after he had been killed.

When
al-

Husayn, peace be on him, was killed, Abjar b.

Kab
set on him,

plundered him of the trousers and left him naked.

After
that the two

hands of Abjar b.

Ka'b, may God curse him, became
so dry in the

summer that they were like sticks and then soaking wet in the
winter

so that they sprinkled drops of water and puss, until God
destroyed

him.

When nobody except a group of three members of his family was

left with al-Husayn, peace be on him, he moved against the
people,

while the three protected him until (all) three were killed.

Al-Husayn,

was left alone.

Despite being weighed down by
wounds in his head

and body, he began to strike against them with his sword and
they

scattered, to right and left, away from him.

Then Humayd b.

Muslim said:

By God, I
have never seen such persistence.

His sons have
been

killed, and
the members of his household and his followers, yet

he is still
as brave as ever and he has not allowed his spirit

to leave
him.

When the soldiers attack him, he fights back
with

his sword
and scatters them to right and left of him like goats

when a wolf
comes upon them.

When Shamir b.

Dhi al-Jawshan realised (the
position), he called

for the cavalry and they came up at the rear of the
foot-soldiers.

He

ordered the archers to shoot at (al-Husayn) and they showered
him

with arrows until he became (quilted with arrows) like a
hedgehog (iZ

with spikes).

He drew back from them and they stood facing him.

His
sister

Zaynab, came to the door of the tent and called out to 'Umar
b.

Sad b.

Abi Waqqas: "Woe upon you, Umar.

Is
Abu Abd Allah

being killed while you (stand by and) watch?" But Umar
did not

answer.

Then she called out: "Woe upon you
(all), is there not a

Muslim among you?" But no-one answered.

Then Shamir b.

Dhi al-Jawshan shouted at the foot
soldiers and

the Calvary: "Why are you waiting for the man? May your
mothers be

deprived of you!" So they attacked him from every side.

Zura b.

Sharik struck him on the left
shoulder-blade and cut into

it.

Another of them struck him on the shoulder.

He
fell prostrate on

his face.

Sinan b.

Anas al-Nakhai stabbed
him with a spear and killed

him.

Khawali b.

Yazid al-Asbahi hurried
to him and bent down to cut

off his head but he trembled (too much).

Shamir
said to him: "May

God crush your arm why are you trembling?" Then Shamir
bent

down and decapitated him.

He lifted the head (and
handed it) to

Khawati saying: "Take it to the commander 'Umar b.

Sa'd.

"

Then they began to plunder (the body of) al-Husayn, peace be
on

him.

Ishaq b.

al-Hayat al-Hadrami, may
God curse him, took his

shirt.

Abjar b.

Ka'b, may God curse him,
took his trousers.

Akhnas

b.

Marthad, may God curse him, took his turban.

One
of the Banu

Darim took his sword.

They plundered his saddle and
his camel

and they looted his womenfolk.

[ The name of the plunderers and the plundered objects are
different

in Tabari ]

[Humayd b.

Muslim reported:]

By God, I did not see one of his women or daughters or the
women

of his family who did not have her clothes ripped from her
back,

taken away and removed from her forcibly.

Then we
came to Ali b.

al-Husayn, peace be on them both.

He was stretched
out on a bed and

he was very ill.

Shamir had a group of
foot-soldiers with him and they

asked him, "Shall we kill this sick one?" I said:
"Praise be to God, will

boys be killed (too)? This is only a youth even though he is
what he

is.

" And I went on (arguing) until I had moved them
away from him.

Then 'Umar b.

Sa'd arrived and the women cried out
and wept in

his face.

He ordered his followers: "None of
you should enter the

tents of these women nor disturb this sick boy.

" The
women asked

him to return what had been taken from them so that they
could

clothe themselves again.

So he commanded that
whoever had taken

any of their belongings should return them to them.

But
by God,

none of them returned anything.

He then entrusted
charge of the

main tent and the tents of the women to a group (of men) who
were

; with him.

He said: "Guard (the women) so
that none of them may

leave and do not harm them.

"

After this, he returned to his tent and called out to his
followers:

"Who will volunteer (to go) to al-Husayn and make his
horse trample

on (al-Husayn's body)?" Ten volunteered.

Of
these, Ishaq b.

Hayyat

and Akhnas b.

Marthad trampled on (the body of)
al-Husayn with

their horses until they had broken and bruised his back.

Umar
b.

Sad despatched on that day-it was the day of 'Ashura', - the
head of

al-Husayn, peace be on him, with Khawali b.

Yazid
al-Asbahi and

Humayd b.

Muslim al-Azdi, to Ubayd Allah b.

Ziyad.

Then
he

ordered the heads of the remainder of his followers and
members of

his House (who had been slain) to be cut off.

There
were seventy-two

heads.

He sent Shamir b.

Dhi al-Jawshan,
Qays b.

Ash'ath and Amr

b.

al-Hajjaj with these.

They journeyed
until they brought them to

Ibn Ziyad.

He ('Umar b.

Sad) remained
there for the rest of that day

and the next day until just after midday.

Then he
summoned the

people for the journey, and set out towards Kufa.

He
took with him

the daughters and sisters of al-Husayn, peace be on him,
together

with 'Ali b.

al-Husayn, peace be on him.

The
latter was still sick with

a dysentry and was almost on the point of death.

When Ibn Sad departed, some of Banu Asad, who had been

staying at al-Ghadiriyya went to al-Husayn, peace be on him,
and his

followers.

They performed the funeral prayer over
them.

Then they

buried al-Husayn at the place where his tomb still is, and
they buried

his son 'Ali b.

al-Husayn al-Asghar (the younger)
at the foot of the

body.

They dug around the area next to the two feet
of al-Husayn,

peace be on him, for the martyrs from his House and his
followers.

They gathered them together and buried them all together.

However,

they buried al-Abbas b.

'Ali, peace be on them
both, in the place

where he was killed, on the road to al-Ghadiriyya, where his
tomb

still is.

[ These details are not given by Tabari ]


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