Sad situations in Al-Taf war

Sad situations in Al-Taf war

One: the assassinating of the baby (Abdullah

When imam Hussein lost his brothers ,nephews , sons and followers in Al-Taf war he told the women to bring his baby Abdullah ( six months ), his sister Zainab brought the child with his mother ( Al-Rabab ) , imam Hussein put the baby in his lap and said " away with the people ( the enemy ) when your grandfather ( prophet Mohammed ) will be his opponent " then he approached from the enemy asking them for some water to his thirsty child but Harmala shot the baby with arrow and killed him, imam Hussein threw the blood of his baby to the heaven , then he dug a grave for him by his sword and buried him

Two: the horses

When the enemy killed imam Hussein their leader, Omar Bin Saad gave an order to crush the chest of imam Hussein by their horses, ten of them executed his order,and Ibin Ziyad (the ruler of Al- Kufa) rewarded them

They did with imam Hussein that no nation can do it with the bad people by killing imam Hussein by sword, spear and stone and crushing his chest by the horses to the degree that when those horses reached Egypt they put the horseshoe on their doors for blessing

Three: the heads

Omar Bin Saad gave an order to his army to cut the heads of imam Hussein and his followers, they cut the heads and each tribe took many heads to Ibin Ziyad, Khawli took the head of imam Hussein to him and said " I want a great gift (gold&silver) for killing the best and most honorable man on the earth

Ibin Ziyad told him "if you know that he is the best man so why did you kill him

Translated by Al-Muntadhira