Part 7- Robbing the body of Imam Hussain

Part 7- Robbing the body of Imam Hussain

ibn Saad’s army commited the ugliest and the most heinous crimes. they rushed into imam’s dead body and plundered his armament and clothes with cruelty. one of the members of the Bani Nahshal took his sword(1), it was the sword of tahe Holy Prophet (PBUH) called the “Zulfikar”.(2) “Gheith ibn Asha’ath” who was one of the commanders of the army took his fur towel, the others criticized him, since then it was called ” Gheith al- Ghatifeh“.

“Eshaq ibn Hovieh” took his shirt. “Akhnas ibn Morshed” took his turban(3), “Bahir” took his trousers and put them on but he paralyzed.(4) they did not leave anything on imam’s bodyexcept the pants that Imam tore it to remain on his dead body.

then the cheapest and dirtiest human came. he looked for anything to take from imam’s dead body but he didn’t find anything. he searched more and found a ring while the blood was dried on it, he cut imam’s finger and took the ring. finally, the wicked left imam’s naked body in the hot sunshine. the horses trampled imam’s body.

the bad affairs of the persecute practitioners was developed and they did whatever sin which was possible. Ibn Sa’ad was assigned to do Marjaneh’s son’s orders, he shouted: who is volunteer to trample Hussein’s body with his horse?(6)

“Vaghedi” said: Shemr went and trampled imam’s body with his horse(7), ten children of quean women followed him: Isaac ibn Hazrami, Hani ibn Sabit Hazrami, Olaam ibn Naem, Asad ibn Malek, Hakim ibn Tafil Taee, Akhnas ibn Morshed, Amro ibn Sabih Mazhaji, Raja ibn Manghaz Abdi, Saleh ibn Vahab Yazni and Salem ibn Khathime Jaafi (8). they trampled the body of the prophet’s daughter’s son under their horses hooves. (9)Evil criminal, Asad ibn Malik, was proud of his action and said to ibn Sa’ad:

نحن رضضنا الصدر بعد الظهر

بکل يعسوب شديد الأسرة (10) .

“we crushed his chest and back with our strong and sturdy horses.”

they trampled his body in front of other armies.(11)in my opinion, this action was never done about other imams and their companions. something that could confirm it, is Ibn Ziyad’s orders for ibn Sa’ad which consisted tearing down Imam Hussein’s body. however they showed their great malice and cruelty against Imam Hussein. they trampled imam’s body who were grown up with the prophet (PBHU) and he was Ali and Fateme’s child. the prophet says:

“Hussein is mine and i am for Hussein , God loves those lovw Hussein.”

they trampled a body which fought against the wicked and wanted to remove the crimes and promote the justice in the world.

footnote:

(1)Ansab al- Ashraf 3/409

(2)the political history of the Arab governments 2/75

(3)Moghram Maghtal al Hussein p.284

(4)Mozafari, history p. 208

(5)Abi Faras Shafieh description 2/2

(6)Tabari, history 5/454-455

(7)Ansab al- Ashraf 3/419

(8)ibn Shahr Ashub , Managheb 4/111

(9)ibn Kathir. al-Badaye va al-Nahaya 8/189

(10)Kharazmi , Maghtal 2/39

(11)the history of islamic governments 1/57