The First Part

Then Al-Husayn stood up and went back to the camp with a broken back and sadness and crying, and cleaning his tears from his eyes with his sleeves, and then Sokaynah [his daughter] came to him and asked about her uncle (Al-`Abbás), and he told her that he got killed, and Zaynab heard him saying that so she shouted: Alas! my brother! Alas! `Abbás! Alas! how are we lost after you! And the women cried and Al-Husayn cried with them and said: Alas! how are we lost after you! And when Al-`Abbás got killed, Al-Husayn looked around and so no one that would nourish him, and he looked at his family and his companions and they were all butchered like the sheeps, while he was hearing the women and children cry out loud, and then he called out loud: any one that would nourish the Household of the prophet (PUH)? Any believer that would fear Allah for us? Any helper that likes to meet Allah by helping us? Any helper that likes what Allah has for him for helping us? And the voices of the women raised with crying. Then he went to the enterance of the tent and said to Zaynab: give me my infant to pay him the farewell, and they brought him his son `Abdulláh, and his mother was Al-Rabáb bent Imri' Al-Qays Al-Kalbi, so he took him and put him in his lap and bent over him to kiss him, but Harmalah ben Káhil Al-Asdi shot him with an arrow that got into his neck and killed him, and then he said to Zaynab: take him, and he took the blood with his hand and when it was full he threw the blood towards the sky [and some say no drop came down to earth] and said: (O Allah) make it easy for me what happened with him verily it is under the eyes of Allah, Allahoma don't let him be lower in value than Faseel [the breed of the camel of the prophet Sálih. Check the prophets in islamic literature]. Then he carried him and put him with the dead people of his Household, and some say that he dug a grave for him by the edge of his sword and buried him there.

Then Al-Husayn (PUH) advanced toward the crowds and raising his sword and despaired of life and called the people for a combat, and he killed everyone that met him, until he killed so many of them. Then he attacked the right wing and said: To be killed is better than being ashamed and the shame is better than going to hell by Allah this and that are not my companions Then he attacked the left wing and said: I am Al-Husayn ben `Ali I've sworn not to bend I shall protect the children of my father and go on with the way of the prophet some narrators said: by Allah, we've never seen a bereaved man that lost all his children and his Household and his companion in his likes of bravery, by Allah I've never seen one like him before or after him, and when the men gather around him to attack he would strike them with his sword and make them tear away from his right and left like the goat that is attacked by the wolf! He was attacking them and their numbers completed the 30 thousands and all of them are defeated before like the locusts and then he would return to the center and say: verily there is no power except by Allah. When Shimr saw that, he ordered the knights to be at the back of the foot soldiers and then ordered the archers to shoot at him and so they did until his shield became like a hedgehog, and then Shimr came with some fellows and blocked the way between him and his harem! Then Al-Husayn (PUH) shouted: woe to you! O followers of Abu-Sufyán, if you have no religion and were not afraid of the judgement day then be free in this life and turn back to your ancestries if you were Arabs as you claim, then Shimr called him and said: what are you saying O son of Fatima? Then he replied: I say, I am fighting you and you are fighting me and the women have no guilt, so turn away your ignorant people and your tyrants and don't let them attack my harem as long I am alive. Then Shimr said: you've got that O son of Fatima, and then he shouted: stay away from the harem of the man and point at him directly, by my life he is a graceful man! So they pointed at him for fighting and Shimr was stirring up the people to fight Al-Husayn (PUH), and they attacked him and he would attack them back and they turn away from his way, and he was asking for a drop of water but couldn't find any.

Then he attacked in the direction of Al-Forát, against `Amr ben Al-Hajjáj with 4 thousands men, and he exposed them away from the water, and got into the water with the horse, and when the horse started to drink, Al-Husayn (PUH) said: you are thirsty and I am thirsty and I shall not drink until you drink, and horse raised his head up like if he understood the talk! Then when Al-Husayn (PUH) extended his arm to drink the water, a man called him and said: do you drink the water while your harem is exposed? Then he dropped the water and didn't drink and heading to the tent (to protect his harem), and then he (PUH) got back to fight the enemies of Allah and remained in the fight until he was injured with 72 injuries. Then he stood to take a rest and he was weak to continue fighting, and while he was standing, Abul-Hotoof Al-Jo`fi threw a stone t him, and some say with an arrow, and it hit his forehead, so he took a cloth to clean the blood from his forehead, and while doing so a poisoned arrow with three heads arrived into his heart! Then he (PUH) said: by the name of Allah and by Allah, and on the way of the prophet of Allah, then he raised his head to the sky and said: O my Lord, verily You know that they are killing a man that has no likings on earth, and then he took the arrow and got him out from his back and the blood gushed out like the rain! The blood gushing made him exhausted so he sat on the ground and turning his neck around, and in that situation, Málik ben Al-Nisr Al-Kindi came to him and cursed him and hit his honorable head with the sword, and there was a cloak over his head, and the cloak got filled with blood, and Al-Husayn (PUH): may you never eat with your hand neither drink, and may Allah gather you with the wrong people, and then he threw the cloak away and put his hood.

And in that situation, `Abdulláh ben Al-Hasan (PUH) got out and he was a lad of 11 years, and he went to his uncle Al-Husayn, and Zaynab then went after him to keep him away, and Al-Husayn (PUH) said to her: O my sister keep him away, but the lad denied fiercely and came to his uncle Al-Husayn (PUH) and stood beside him and said: I shall not leave my uncle, then Bahr ben Ka`b wanted to wind his sword to Al-Husayn (PUH) and the lad said to him: woe to you! O son of the bad woman! you want to kill my uncle! Then Bahr ben Ka`b struck him with the sword and he received it with his hand and it was amputated to the skin and remained hanged up, and the kid called: Alas! my uncle! or Alas! O my mother! And then Al-Husayn (PUH) took him and hugged him to his chest and said: O son of my brother be patient for the adversities that befell upon you and wait for the goodness, for verily Allah will make you follow your good fathers and the prophet of Allah (PUH) and `Ali (PUH) and Hamzah and Ja`far and Al-Hasan (PUT), and then Harmalah ben Káhil threw at him an arrow and killed him in the lap of his uncle, and then Al-Husayn (PUH) raised his hand and said: Allahoma forbid them the rains of the skies and forbid them the blessings of the earth, Allahoma if you made them live for a while then let them be separated severely and make them tear apart in bands, and never make their rulers be satisfied with them, for they have invited us to support us and then attacked us to kill us.

Then Al-Husayn (PUH) remained on the ground for some time although they could have killed him, but every tribe was depending on the other and hated to do so. Hilál ben Náfi` said: I was standing with the fellows of `Umar ben Sa`d when a caller shouted: O be happy prince, this is Shimr killed Al-Husayn, so I went out between the two rows and took a look at him and I've seen him protecting himself, and by Allah, I've never seen a man that got dipped in his blood that would be better than him, and no one with a face brighter than his, and I was busy looking at the halo of his face and the beauty of his shape and didn't think of killing him, and while he was in that situation he asked for water, and I heard a man saying: by Allah you shall not drink the water until you go to hell and drink from its fire, and I heard him reply: I shall go to hell and drink of its fire? No by Allah, I shall go to my grandfather the prophet of Allah (PUH) and shall live with him in his own home in a firmly established in the favour of a Mighty King, and I shall drink a water that is not dirty and I shall complain to him about you've done to me, and all of them got angry like if Allah never planted anything of mercy in their hearts. Then Al-Husayn (PUH) raised his hand to the sky and said: Allahoma, O You of the High Place, of the Mighty Power, of the Great Wisdom, not in need of the creatures, and high in His Pride, verily You are Able for whatever You desire, close in mercy, and true with the promise, and Graceful with His favors, and a Tester of goodness, close whenever You are called, and surrounding whatever You have created, and verily You accept the repenting for those who repent, and verily You are Able for what You desire, and verily You get whatever You want, Thankful if You have been praised, and You mention those who mention You, and I pray to You for my need, and ask You for my necessity, and go toward You when I am afraid and cry for my adversities, and I seek help from You when I am weak, and I depend on You when I am satisfied, Allahoma, judge between us and between those people for they have tricked us and let us down and betrayed us and killed us, and we are the Household of Your prophet, and the children of Your beloved Mohammed (PUH), the one who You have chosen him for the Message, and made him to receive the inspirations, so make for us, O Lord, a relief from our matter O You the most Merciful of all. Patience over what You have destined O Lord, no other god but You, O Helper of those who need the help.

Then Shimr shouted at the knights and the foot soldiers: woe to you! what do you wait from the man? Kill him may your mothers be bereaved, and so they attacked him from all the sides and Zor`ah ben Shorayk hit him on his left shoulder, and Al-Husayn (PUH) hit Zor`ah and killed him. Then another man hit him on his holy shoulder with his sword and made him fall on his face, and he was sitting. Then he started to stand up and fall down, and then Sinán ben Anas Al-Nakh`ee stabbed him in his throat and took the spear out and stabbed him in his chest, and threw him with an arrow into his neck, so he then fell down and sat on the ground and took the arrow out from his neck and started to collect the blood with his hands and whenever they were full he would paint his head and his beard with it while saying: this is how shall I meet Allah, painted with blood and my rights have been taken. Then `Umar ben Sa`d said to Sinán ben Anas: get down woe to you! go to Al-Husayn (PUH) and make him rest, and then Sinán said to Khiwallá ben Yazeed: go and behead him, and Khiwallá went to do so but he got weakened and shocked, so Sinán said to him and some say Shimr said to him: may Allah disolve you arms, why are you shaking? Then Sinán got down and some say it was Shimr and he killed him and amputated his holy head while saying: I behead you and I know you are the master and the son of the prophet of Allah and the best of people from mother's and father's side, and then he gave the head to Khiwallá and said to him: take it to the prince `Umar ben Sa`d.

Then the crowds came to steal whatever he (PUH) had, thus his shirt was taken by Is-háq ben Khawiyyah Al-Hadhrami, and his pants were taken by Bahr ben Ka`b and his turban was taken by Al-Akhnas, and his shield was taken by `Umar ben Sa`d, and his clothes were taken by a brother of Is-háq ben Khawiyyah, and his velvet was taken by Qays ben Al-Ash`ath ben Qays, and his cloak was taken by Málik ben Nisr, and his sword was taken by Al-Faláfis Al-Nahshali from the tribe of Dárim, and his sandals were taken by Al-Aswad ben Khálid, and his ring was taken by Bajdal ben Saleem Al-Kalbi who amputated the finger with the ring.