Virtues of al-Husayn bin Ali

Bishr bin Ghalib narrates: I was with Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) when he saw Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) and said: "O Abu Abdullah! I saw you on the hands of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), having stained them with blood, when you were brought to him at your birth, and I was delighted. He wrapped you in a piece of cloth, he put some of his saliva in your mouth, and he spoke words, I do not know what they were. Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) had gone ahead of him in (cutting) the navel cord of Hasan, so he said: 'Do not go ahead of me in this.'"
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Dirar bin Surad, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Muhammad bin al-Dahhak bin Uthman al-Hizami narrates: The body of Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) resembled the body of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy). Hadiths of this kind have already passed before this.

Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (may Allah have mercy on him) reports this statement of his father: "Between Sayyiduna Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) there was a gap of only one period of purity (tuhr)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except that Imam al-Baqir (may Allah have mercy on him) did not live in the time of that event.

Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said about Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both): "Whoever loves him loves me."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, al-Harith al-A'war, and he is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyiduna Imam Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) was with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) loved him intensely. He asked: "Shall I go to my mother?" (The narrator says:) I said: "I will go with him." The narrator says: Just then a light came from the sky, and he walked in its light until he reached his destination.
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Musa bin Uthman, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyiduna Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) came running while the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was praying. He clung to the neck of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up, took hold of his hand, and kept holding him until he went into bowing (ruku').
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and there is a difference of opinion about using its narrators as evidence.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) part the thighs of Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) and kiss his little private part (zabibah).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

Raja' bin Rabi'ah narrates: I was in the Prophet's Mosque when Sayyiduna Imam Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) passed by and greeted with salam. Those present returned his greeting, but Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) remained silent. Then, after the people had fallen silent, Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) raised his voice and said: "And upon you be peace, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings." Then he turned to those present and said: "Shall I not tell you who, of the people of the earth, is the most beloved to the people of the heaven?" The people said: "Yes." He said: "This gentleman who has just left. By Allah! Since the Battle of Siffin until now, I have not spoken a word with him, nor has he spoken a word with me. And by Allah! If he were pleased with me, that would be dearer to me than receiving wealth as great as Mount Uhud." Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Will you go to him?" He said: "Very well." Then they agreed that the next day they would go to Sayyiduna Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him). The narrator says: I went with the two of them. Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) asked permission to enter, and Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) gave him permission. We went in, but Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) did not go in; he remained outside until Sayyiduna Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) gave him permission too, and then he came in. When Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) saw him, he made room for him, and he came and sat beside Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) looked towards him. Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) had stood up and did not sit; when he saw this, Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) moved aside and made room for him, and he sat between the two of them. Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) related the whole incident, and Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "O Ibn Amr! Is it so? Do you know that I am, of the people of the earth, the most beloved to the people of the heaven?" Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "Yes! By the Lord of the Ka'bah! You are, of the people of the earth, the most beloved to the people of the heaven." Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "Then why did you fight against my father at the Battle of Siffin? By Allah! My father is better than me." Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "Yes, but Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) once complained about me to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: 'Abdullah fasts during the day and keeps praying voluntary prayers at night.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Pray voluntary prayers at night and also sleep; keep voluntary fasts and also leave them; and obey Amr.' When the occasion of Siffin came, Sayyiduna Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) adjured me by oath. By Allah! I did not add to their numbers, nor did I draw a sword for them, nor did I attack with a spear for their sake, nor did I shoot a single arrow for them." Sayyiduna Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "Do you not know that there is no obedience to a created being in disobedience to the Creator?" Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "Yes!" The narrator says: It was as if he accepted this statement of Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him).
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat. Its chain contains a narrator, Ali bin Sa'id bin Bashir, in whom there is some weakness, and he is a hafiz. The remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy). Before this, the report recorded by al-Bazzar has already passed in the biography of Sayyiduna Imam Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him). And Allah knows best.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "Whoever would like to look at a man from the people of Paradise, let him look at Sayyiduna Imam Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both)." (Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said:) For I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say this.
Abu Ya'la recorded it. Its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except for al-Rabi' bin Sa'd, who according to one view is al-Rabi' bin Sa'id, and he is thiqah (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The angel of rain asked his Lord for permission to come to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Lord gave him permission. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her): "Keep watch over the door; let no one come in to us." The narrator says: Just then Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) came and tried to come in. Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) stopped him, but he jumped and came in, and began sitting on the back, the shoulders and the neck of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The narrator says: The angel asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Do you love him?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: "Yes!" The angel said: "But your Ummah will martyr him. If you wish, I will show you the place where he will be martyred." Then the angel stretched out his hand and brought some red earth. (The narrator says:) Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) took that earth and tied it up in her bag. The narrator Thabit says: It has reached us
that this earth was from Karbala.
Ahmad, Abu Ya'la, al-Bazzar and al-Tabarani recorded it with various chains. Its chain contains a narrator, Umarah bin Zadhan, whom a group declared thiqah (trustworthy), and there is weakness in him. The narrators of Abu Ya'la are the narrators of the Sahih.

Nujayy al-Hadrami narrates that he was travelling with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and he was in charge of Sayyiduna Ali's (may Allah be pleased with him) water for purification. When they reached the place of Ninawa, while they were heading towards Siffin, Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) called out loudly: "Be patient, O Abu Abdullah! Be patient, O Abu Abdullah, at the bank of the Euphrates!" I asked: "What is the reason for this?" Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "One day I came into the presence of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and tears were flowing from his eyes. I said: 'O Prophet of Allah! Has someone angered you? Why are tears flowing from your eyes?' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Jibril has just got up and left me; he told me that Husayn will be killed on the bank of the Euphrates. He said: Would you like me to let you smell some of its earth? I replied: Yes! So the angel stretched out his hand, took a handful of earth and gave it to me, and I could not control my eyes, and they began to flow.'"
Ahmad, Abu Ya'la, al-Bazzar and al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy). The narrator Nujayy is not alone in reporting this narration.

Sayyidah Aishah Siddiqah (may Allah be pleased with her), or perhaps Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her), narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: "Today an angel came to me who had never come to me before. He told me: 'This son of yours, Husayn, will be killed. If you wish, I can show you some of the earth of the land where he will be killed.'" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Then the angel brought some red earth.
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyidah Aishah Siddiqah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: Sayyiduna Imam Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) (who was a child at that time) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) while revelation was coming down upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). He climbed onto the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had his head bowed, and he climbed onto the back of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyiduna Jibril asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "O Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Do you love him?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Jibril, why would I not love my son?" Sayyiduna Jibril said: "After you, your Ummah will soon martyr him." Then Sayyiduna Jibril stretched out his hand and brought some white earth, and said: "Your son will be martyred in this land, and the name of this place is al-Taff." When Sayyiduna Jibril had left the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came out; he had picked up Sayyiduna Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) and was holding him close, and he was weeping. He said: "O Aishah! Jibril has told me that my son Husayn will be killed in the land of al-Taff, and that after me my Ummah will fall into trial." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) went out to his Companions, among whom were Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), Sayyiduna Abu Bakr, Sayyiduna Umar, Sayyiduna Hudhayfah, Sayyiduna Ammar and Sayyiduna Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with them all). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was weeping. The people said: "O Messenger of Allah! Why are you weeping?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Jibril has told me that my son Husayn will be killed after me in the land of al-Taff. He brought me this earth, and he told me that his martyrdom will take place at this spot."
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir, and recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat in a much abridged form. At its beginning are these words: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had seated Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) on his thigh when Sayyiduna Jibril came to him." The chain in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir contains a narrator, Ibn Lahi'ah, and the chain in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat contains narrators whom I do not know.

Sayyidah Zaynab bint Jahsh (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sleeping at her home, and Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) was crawling about the house. I became unmindful of him, and he crawled until he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), climbed onto his stomach and urinated on the stomach of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) woke up. I got up, came to him and removed him from the stomach of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), but the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Leave my son." When he had finished urinating, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) took a vessel of water and sprinkled it over it. He said: "Water is to be sprinkled over the urine of a boy, and the urine of a girl is to be washed." Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up and began to pray, holding him. When he went into bowing or prostration, he would set him down on the ground, and when he stood up, he would pick him up again. When he sat, he raised both his hands and began to supplicate. When he had completed the prayer, I said: "O Messenger of Allah! Today I saw you do something that I had not seen you do before." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Jibril came to me and told me that my son will be killed. I said: 'Show me that place, then!' So he brought me some red earth."
Al-Tabarani recorded it with two chains, and both chains contain a narrator whom I do not know.

Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: Once the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was sitting in my house, and he said: "Let no one come in to me." Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) says: I kept waiting, and meanwhile Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) came in. I heard the sound of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) weeping. I peeped in and saw that Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) was in his lap, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was passing his hand over his forehead and weeping. I said: "By Allah! I did not notice him coming in." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) told me: "Jibril was with us in the house. He asked: 'Do you love him?' I replied: 'As far as this world is concerned, yes!' Jibril said: 'Your Ummah will kill him in a land whose name is Karbala.'" Then Jibril took some of its earth and showed it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) was surrounded at the place where he was martyred, he asked: "What is the name of this place?" The people said: "Karbala." He said: "Allah and His Messenger spoke the truth; this is a place of karb (distress) and bala' (affliction)."

In one narration the words are: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke the truth; this is a place of karb (distress) and bala' (affliction)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it with various chains, and the narrators of one of them are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: Sayyiduna Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) were playing in front of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in my house. Meanwhile Sayyiduna Jibril came down and said: "O Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), after you, your Ummah will kill this son of yours." He said this pointing towards Husayn. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) began to weep and held him close to his chest. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Umm Salamah, this earth will remain with you as a trust." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had smelled it and said: "Ruin, distress and affliction!" Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When this earth turns into blood, know that my son has been killed." The narrator says: Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) put that earth in a small glass bottle, and she would examine it every day and say: "The day you turn into blood will be a momentous day."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Amr bin Thabit al-Nukri, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to his wives: "Do not let this child cry." By this the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) meant Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him). The narrator says: It was the time of Sayyidah Umm Salamah's (may Allah be pleased with her) turn. Sayyiduna Jibril (peace be upon him) came down, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) went inside and said to Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her): "Do not let anyone come in to me." Meanwhile Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) came, and when he saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the house, he wanted to go in. Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) caught hold of him and picked him up in her lap, and began trying to quieten him, but when his crying grew stronger, Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) let him go. He went in and sat in the lap of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyiduna Jibril (peace be upon him) said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Your Ummah will kill this son of yours." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Will they kill him while they believe in me?" Sayyiduna Jibril (peace be upon him) replied: "Yes, they will kill him." Then Sayyiduna Jibril (peace be upon him) took some earth and said: "This will happen at such-and-such a place." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came out holding Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) in his arms, and he was distressed. Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) thought that perhaps he was angry because the child had come in to him, so she said: "O Prophet of Allah! May I be sacrificed for you! You told us: 'Do not let this child cry,' and then you also ordered me not to let anyone come in to you. He came, and I let him go." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) no reply. He went out to his Companions, who were sitting, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "My Ummah will kill this one." Among those present were Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), who were more at ease with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) than all the other people. They said: "O Prophet of Allah! Will they be believers?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes! And this is the earth of his resting place." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) showed them that earth.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators have been declared trustworthy, though there is weakness in some of its narrators.

Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came out to us with his colour changed, and he said: "I am Muhammad. I have been given the openings of speech and its conclusions. So obey me as long as I am among you, and when I am taken away, you must hold to the Book of Allah: treat as lawful what it makes lawful, and treat as unlawful what it makes unlawful. Death will come to you; it will come to you with ease and rest. This is something decreed beforehand by Allah Almighty. Trials will come to you like portions of the dark night; whenever one kind of trial goes, another will come. Prophethood will come to an end and kingship will come. May Allah Almighty have mercy on the one who takes it with its due right and leaves it just as he entered it. O Mu'adh! Hold on and count." (Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) began to enumerate names.) The narrator says: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) reached the fifth person, he said: "Yazid; may Allah Almighty not bless Yazid." Then tears came to his eyes, and he said: "I have been informed of the killing of Husayn, the earth of that place has been brought to me, and I have been told about his killer. By the One in whose Hand is my soul! Those among whom he is killed and who do not protect him, Allah Almighty will put discord between their hearts and breasts, set the worst of them over them, and split them into different factions." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Alas for the children of the family of Muhammad because of a caliph who will be made caliph, living in luxury and excess; he will kill my offspring and the offspring of my offspring. O Mu'adh! Count!" Then when he reached ten, he said: "Al-Walid, which is the name of Pharaoh; he will be a destroyer of the laws of Islam. Before him will be a man from his own household by whom Allah Almighty will draw His sword, and it will then not return to its sheath, and they will remain like this." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) interlaced his fingers and said: "After one hundred and twenty there will come a time in which time will pass quickly and killing and bloodshed will be abundant. In that period they will perish, and at that time a man from the descendants of Sayyiduna Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) will become ruler over them."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Mujashi' bin Amr, and he is a kadhdhab (liar).

Sayyiduna Abu al-Tufayl (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The angel of rain asked permission to greet the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with salam; he had asked permission to come in at the home of Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said (to Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her)): "Do not let anyone come in to us." Meanwhile Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) came and went in. Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "This is Husayn." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Leave him!" He climbed onto the neck of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and began playing with him, while the angel was watching. The angel asked: "O Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)! Do you love him?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, by Allah! I love him." The angel said: "But your Ummah will soon kill him. If you wish, I will show you his place." Then he stretched out his hand and took some earth in his fist. Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) took that earth and tied it up in her headscarf. The people used to think that this earth was from Karbala.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Husayn bin Ali will be killed sixty years after my emigration."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Sa'id bin Tarif, and he is matruk (abandoned).

It is reported with the same chain: Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Husayn will be killed when his hair begins to turn white." Al-Tabarani said: The word qatir means white hair.

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Husayn will be killed, and I know the soil where he will be killed; it is near the two rivers (al-Nahrayn).
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Shayban bin Mukharram, who was an Uthmani (a partisan of Uthman), said: I was with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) when he came to Karbala, and he said: "A martyr will be killed at this place; there will be no martyr like him, except the martyrs of Badr." I thought: Perhaps this is one of his false statements. There was the leg of a dead donkey lying there, so I said to my slave: "Take the leg of this donkey, drive it into the ground at the place where he sat, and hide it." So he struck it in with a blow. The narrator says: When Sayyiduna Imam Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) was martyred, I set out with my companions, and there was the body of Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) lying upon the leg of that donkey, and the bodies of his companions were lying around him.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Ata bin al-Sa'ib, who is thiqah (trustworthy) but his memory became confused (ikhtilat); the remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy).

Abu Harthamah said: I was with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) by the river of Karbala. He passed by a tree beneath which lay the droppings of gazelles. He took a handful of the soil from there, smelled it, and then said: "From here seventy thousand people will be raised on the Day of Gathering who will enter Paradise without any reckoning."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Abu Hubayrah said: I was with Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) when he came to Kufah. He ascended the pulpit, and after praising and extolling Allah Almighty he said: "What will your state be when the descendants of your Prophet come among you?" The people said: "In that case we will treat them well." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "By the One in whose Hand is my soul, he will come among you, and you will go out against them and kill them." Then Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) began reciting this verse: "They brought him to the place of deception and failed to achieve their aim; then they wished to rescue him, but there remained no way of rescue or excuse."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Sa'd bin Wahb, who is of a later period, and I do not know him. The remaining narrators of this report are thiqat (trustworthy).

Al-Musayyab bin Najiyyah said: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Shall I not tell you specifically about myself and my household?" We said: "Yes." He said: "As for Hasan, he is a man of large bowls and laden tables, and he is a gallant young man, but he will be of no use to you in war. As for Abdullah bin Ja'far, he is a man of amusement, ease and idle pursuits. And do not let the two sons of Abbas deceive you. As for me and Husayn, we are from you and you are from us. By Allah, I fear that these people will be given the upper hand over you because of their righteousness in their land and your corruption in yours, because they fulfil the trust while you betray it, they obey their ruler while you disobey yours, and they are united upon their falsehood while you are divided over your truth. Their rule will be prolonged until they leave nothing that Allah Almighty has made sacred without making it lawful, and their oppression will enter every house of mud and of hair, until one of you becomes their follower, the way a slave supports his master: when he is present he obeys him, and when he is absent he reviles him; until, in that situation, the most detached among you will be the one who holds the best opinion of Allah Almighty. If Allah Almighty grants you well-being, accept it, and if you are put to trial, be patient, for the good end belongs to the God-fearing."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) was sitting in the lap of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyiduna Jibril (peace be upon him) asked: "Do you love him?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "How could I not love him, when he is the fruit of my heart (that is, a piece of my very being)?" Sayyiduna Jibril (peace be upon him) said: "Your Ummah will kill him. Shall I not show you the place of his grave?" Then he took a handful of earth, and it was red earth.
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), though there is disagreement about some of them.

Imam al-Sha'bi said: When Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) intended to go to the land of Iraq, he wished to meet Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), so he asked about him. He was told that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) was on his land. He went to him to bid him farewell and told him: "I want to go to Iraq." Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "Do not do so, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'I was given the choice between being a king-prophet or a servant-prophet. It was said to me: Be humble. So I chose to be a servant-prophet.' And you are a part of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), so do not go." The narrator says: But Sayyiduna Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) did not accept his advice, so Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), bidding him farewell, said: "I entrust you to Allah, as one who will be slain."
Imam al-Bazzar recorded it, and Imam al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; the narrators of al-Bazzar are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) asked my permission to set out. Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "Were it not that this would bring reproach upon me or upon you, I would have gripped your head with my fingers (to hold you back)." He replied to me, saying: "That I be killed at such-and-such a place is dearer to me than that the sanctuary of Allah and His Messenger be violated because of me." The narrator says: That is what consoled me about him.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Ubaydullah bin al-Hurr said that he asked Sayyiduna Imam Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both): "Did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) give you any instruction regarding this journey of yours?" He replied: "No."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Jabir al-Ju'fi, who is da'if (weak).

Al-Muttalib bin Abdullah bin Hantab said: When Sayyiduna Imam Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) was surrounded, he asked: "What is the name of this place?" He was told: "Karbala." He said: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke the truth: it is a land of karb (distress) and bala (affliction)."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Ya'qub bin Humayd bin Kasib, who is da'if (weak), though he has also been declared trustworthy.

Imam Zayn al-Abidin (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyiduna Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) said to me one day before his martyrdom: "The Children of Israel had a king" — after this the narrator related the full hadith.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain is jayyid (good).

Muhammad bin al-Hasan said: When Umar bin Sa'd camped opposite Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him), and he became certain that they would kill him, he stood up among his companions to deliver a sermon. He praised and extolled Allah Almighty and said: "You see the situation that has come upon us. The world has changed and become unrecognisable; its good has departed and swiftly turned away, until nothing of it remains except the dregs left in a vessel, a meagre living like an unwholesome pasture. Do you not see that the truth is not acted upon and falsehood is not forbidden? Let the believer long to meet Allah Almighty, for I regard death as nothing but happiness, and living with the oppressors as nothing but ruin."
(The narrator says:) Imam Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred on the day of Ashura in the year 61, at al-Taff in Karbala. He was wearing a dark-coloured jubbah of khazz (silk and wool), he had dyed his hair black, and he was fifty-six years old at that time.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. This narrator Muhammad bin al-Hasan is Ibn Zubalah, who is matruk (abandoned), and he did not live in the time of this incident.

Al-Kalbi said: A man shot an arrow at Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) while he was drinking, and it paralysed the corners of his mouth. He said: "May Allah Almighty never quench your thirst." Then that man drank and drank until he burst.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators up to the one who said it are thiqat (trustworthy).

Al-Dahhak bin Uthman said: Sayyiduna Imam Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) set out for Kufah, being opposed to the rule of Yazid bin Mu'awiyah. Yazid bin Mu'awiyah wrote to Ubaydullah bin Ziyad, who was his appointed governor over Iraq: "News has reached me that Husayn has set out for Kufah. This trial has come in your time out of all times, and in your city out of all cities, and you, out of all the officials, have been tested with it. Through this trial you will either be freed, or you will return to being a slave, the way slaves are enslaved." So Ubaydullah bin Ziyad had Imam Husayn martyred and sent Imam Husayn's head to Yazid. When Imam Husayn's head was placed before him, he recited, as an illustration, these verses of al-Husayn bin Humam al-Murri: "We split the skulls of men who are dear to us, while they were the more undutiful and the more unjust."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), except that al-Dahhak did not live in the time of this event.

Ibn Wa'il, or Wa'il bin Alqamah, said that he was present there at that time. He said: A man stood up and asked: "Is Husayn among you?" The people said: "Yes." He said: "Receive the tidings of Hellfire." He (Husayn) said: "You receive the tidings of a Merciful Lord and of an intercessor who is obeyed." The people said: "Who are you?" He said: "I am Ibn Juwayrah" (the narrator is unsure whether he said) "Ibn Huwayzah." He (Husayn) said: "O Allah, drag him to the Fire." His mount threw him, and his foot caught in the stirrup. The narrator says: By Allah, nothing of his body remained except that foot.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Ata bin al-Sa'ib, who is thiqah (trustworthy) but his memory became confused (ikhtilat).

Ibn Abi Layla said: When Sayyiduna Husayn bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) realised that he would be martyred, he said: "Bring me a garment in which no one has any interest (that is, something of no value), so that I may put it beneath my clothes and not be stripped." He was told: "There is a loincloth." He said: "No, that is the garment of one upon whom humiliation has been imposed." Then he took a garment and tied it beneath his clothes. When he was martyred, the people stripped off his clothes.
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators up to the one who said it are thiqat (trustworthy).

Ammar al-Duhni said: Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by Ka'b al-Ahbar, and he said: "A man from this man's descendants will be killed along with his companions, and before the sweat of their horses dries they will reach Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)." Meanwhile Sayyiduna Hasan (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by, and the people said: "O Abu Ishaq, is this the one?" He replied: "No." Then Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by, and the people asked: "Is this the one?" He replied: "Yes."
Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy), except that Ammar al-Duhni did not live in the time of this event.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in a dream at midday; his hair was dishevelled and covered with dust, and he had a flask containing blood, and he was searching for something in it. I asked: "What is this?" He said: "This is the blood of Husayn and his companions; I have been continuously occupied with it today." Ammar said: We remembered that day, and we found that Sayyiduna Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) had been martyred on that very day.
Imam Ahmad and Imam al-Tabarani recorded it, and the narrators of Imam Ahmad are the narrators of the Sahih.