Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 40147 — Those who disliked going out during

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: Sayyiduna al-Husayn (may Allah be pleased with him) came to me for counsel about going out to Iraq. I said to him: "Were it not that they would find fault with me and with you, I would clench my hand in your hair. Where are you going? To a people who martyred your father and speared your brother?" What reconciled my heart about him was that he said to me: "This Sanctuary will be made lawful for fighting because of a man; and that I be killed in such-and-such a land, even though it is far away, is dearer to me than that I be like the man because of whom fighting in the Sanctuary is deemed lawful."