Re: Ahle-Sunnah Lectures needed on the Martrydom of Imam Hussain (a.s.)
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The Sacred Head
Question: Where is the head of Imam Hussain?
Answers:
- It is buried in Madinah. (Usool-e-Kafi, Tehzeebil Ahkam)
- It is near the grave of Imam Hasan Mujtaba in Madinah. (Khulasat-ul-Wafa)
- No! It is somewhere else in Jannatul Baqee' (Fatawa Qartabi)
- It was buried by the side of Ali the Ameer in Najaf Ashraf. (Kaamil-uz-Ziarah)
- No again. It is in the Riqqah Mosque. (Abdullah bin Razzaq)
- The Prophet himself rose from his tomb and came from Madinah and by way of a miracle, took away the head from Damascus to Madinah. All other tales are false. (Qutub Rawindi)
- Impossible! The fact is that Yazeed paraded the head in many towns for public view. People carried it from place to place until it ended up in Asqalan. The chief of Asqalan buried it there.
- Wrong! Yazeed deposited the head in his treasury. When Sulaiman bin Abdul Malik came to the throne, he learned of the head's presence in the treasury. He saw the head radiant like polished silver. After keeping it with him for some time, he wrapped it in a shroud and got it buried with respects. [The time of this burial is supposed to be 98 AH i.e. 37 years after the supposed event of Karbala. The authors of Sawaa'iq and Tehzeeb recorded the treasury to burial story centuries later]
- No, No! Umar bin Abdul Aziz buried the head in Karbala during his reign in 100 AH. (Ibne Qayyim)
- Tehzeebul Ahkam records also that when Abbasids came to power in 130 AH (750 CE) they plundered Yazeed's treasury. A soldier caught sight of a bag. When he untied the bag in an isolated field, he saw the sacred head wrapped in silk. It had an Arabic writing on it, "This is the head of Hussain bin Ali." Secretly, the soldier dug the ground with his sword and buried the head. [The soldier had secretly buried the head but Ibn Hasan Toosi of Tehzeebil Ahkam got wind of it three hundred years later. One may recall that the same author of the Tahzeeb had mentioned Sulaiman bin Abdul Malik in this context]
- Ibn Jozi rebuts all this. According to him, the Abbasid Caliph Mansoor found the head in a locked box in the treasury of the Umayyads. He buried it in Damascus.
- Sensing the abundance of the flying tales, another historian named Maqraizi, flayed all other chroniclers, and brought forth his own 'research'. He writes that in the times of Crusades, for fear of the Christians, the head was taken from Damascus to Asqalan. It was then dug up again on the 8th of Jamadiul Awwal, 548 AH and brought to Cairo. The head gave off the fragrance of musk and was dripping of fresh blood. That is where it was buried.
The Essence of Narratives
- Truth was beheaded in Karbala. Shimar's dagger cut off Imam Hussain's head" (Nafsil Mahmoom). [Earlier, it was said that the sacred head was severed by twelve blows of Shimar's sword (Nafsil Mahmum). If Truth was beheaded, all sacrifice ended in vain]
- The head of the Martyr in the Way of Allah was raised up high on a spear. That was the moment that the truth was decapitated. (Shaheed-e-Insaniat.
[If that is so, Muhammad Ali Jauhar is wrong in his poetry:
Hussain's murder is indeed death to Yazeed
Islam gets revived after each Karbala]
- Bibi Shahr Bano took her own life by jumping in the Euphrates (Manaqib, Ibn Shahr Ashob)
- (Impossible)! Bibi Shahr Bano died at the birth of Imam Zainul Abedin. (Israrush Shahadat)
- According to Kitab-e-Israr, Bibi Shar Bano rode away to Jabal-e-Toos on the Imam's steed and her end remains one of the unsolved mysteries of Nature. [But the Imam's steed had died too]
- The caravan of the captives of Karbala consisted of a string of 40 camels carrying Fatima's progeny, some children and some women. (Ashir Bahar) [Forty camels sound far too many for such a small number]
- Fatima Sughra bint Hussain said to a person from Koofa, "Sit you like a dog, the way your father used to." (Malhoof) [The author of Malhoof is presenting this as a specimen of Fatima Junior's eloquence]
- Imam Zainul Abedin said to Ibn Ziad, "No one dies without Allah's Decree. My father also died by His Decree.” (Maqatilut Taalibin) [With such firm faith in Allah's will it would not befit him to wail in Ibn Ziyad's court]
- Imam Hussain's head was being paraded in the streets of Koofa. The head was constantly reciting the ayahs, "See that the matter of the People of Kahf and Raqeem was one of Our unique signs." The audience spoke out, "O Son of the Prophet! Your case is even more wondrous!" (Ashir Bahar)
Every Clan will Long for Hussain … but
- Imam Hussain used to call us profanities. Imam Hussain used to draw his sword to slay us. (Bani Ziyad's taunt, Nasikhut Tawareekh)
- When this destitute caravan was entering Syria, Yazeed was watching the scene from the top of his castle in Jerone. A crow cawed and Yazeed was delighted. He started humming a tune, "I have settled scores with the Prophet.” [Tabeen Najafi, the author of Tazkiratul Khawas, hears this caw-caw five hundred years later]
- Damascus was wearing a festive look that day (Qumqam). [How could the Muslim masses celebrate the martyrdom of the exalted Prophet's grandson?]
- One of the fifty people who brought the Imam’s head from Koofa to
Damascus reported that they had a round of drinking around the sacred head. One dark night it so happened, that the gates of heaven were flung open with thunder and lightning. All Messengers from Adam to Muhammad descended, accompanied by Gabriel and thousands of other angels. Gabriel lifted the sacred head, embraced and kissed it. All other Messengers (124,000) then did the same. Looking at the head of his grandson, the Prophet of Allah wept profusely. Other Messengers helped him compose himself. (Nafsil Mahmoom). [Angel Gabriel should have carried the head to heavens]
- Ibn Jozi has written in his Tazkarah, "Five hundred years before the birth of the Prophet, there was a verse etched on a stone in Siryani language that there would be a people who slay Hussain and yet hope for intercession by his grandfather. [Ibn Jozi does not tell us who saw the stone and where]
- Near a mountain called Joshan, one of Hussain’s wives suffered a miscarriage. There were some people at work nearby. She requested them for some water to drink. They not only rejected her request but spoke rudely. The lady cursed them. There was a red copper-mine in that mountain. That mine suddenly exploded (Mo'jamil Baldan). [Why could her curse not destroy the army of Ibn Ziyad?]
- It is reported in Maqtalil Hussain, "In the bazaars of Syria, the sacred head of Hussain went on counting beads of a rosary. It was calling out, "My martyrdom and the mounting of my head on the spear is more wonderous than the story of Dwellers of the Cave." [The Mullah takes this yarn as strengthening the faith, whereas the educated young make fun of their own religion when they hear such irrationalities]
