The Prophet Crying For Imam al-Husain
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Narrated Salma:
"I went to visit Umm Salamah and found her weeping. I asked her what
was making her weep and she replied that she had seen Allah's
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Messenger (PBUH&HF) (meaning in a dream) with dust on his head and
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beard. She asked him what was the matter and he replied, `I have just
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been present at the slaying of al-Husayn.'"
- Sahih Tirmidhi, per:
- Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English Version, Tdadition #6157
Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas:
One day at midday he saw in a dream the Prophet (PBUH&HF) dishevelled
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and dusty with a bottle containing blood in his hand and said, "You
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for whom I would give my father and mother as ransom, what is this?"
He replied, "This is the blood of al-Husayn and his companions which I
have been collecting today." He told that he was reckoning that time
and found that he had been killed at that time.
- Musnad Ahmad Hanbal;
- Dala'il an-Nubuwwah, by al-Bayhaqi; per:
- Mishkat al-Masabih, by Khatib al-Tabrizi, English Version, Tdadition #6172
Aisha narrated:
The Prophet (PBUH&HF) said: "Gabriel informed me that my grandson al-
Husain (AS) will be killed after me in the land of al-Taff and brought
me this Turbah (mudd/soil) and informed me that this is the soil of
the place he will be martyred."
Sunni reference:
- Tabaqat, by Ibn Sa'd,
- al-Tabarani, as quoted in:
- al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar Haythami, Ch. 11, section 3, p292
Not only human beings, but also the Jinns mourn for Imam al-Husain. It has
been narrated that after his (AS) martyrdom:
Um Salama (the wife of Prophet (S)) said: I heard the Jinns (the
unseen creatures) mourning for al-Husain."
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Sunni references:
(1) Tarikh al-Kabir, by al-Bukhari (the author of Sahih), v4, part 1, p26
(2) Fada'il al-Sahaba, by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, v2, p776, Tradition #1373
(3) Tabarani, v3, pp 130-131
(4) Tahdhib, v7, p404
As for the Shi'ite references, there is a traditions from the Prophet
(PBUH&HF) that: "When al-Khidr (AS) met Moses (AS), he explained and
forecast the catastrophe of Karbala (the place where this tragedy took
place) in the day of Ashura for Moses, and the calamities that will happen
on that day, and then both al-Khidr and Moses cried and screamed severely."
Also Ibn Abbas (RA) narrated that he met Imam Ali (AS) in Ziqar, and Imam
Ali pulled out a book that was written of the words of Prophet (PBUH&HF) in
which the Prophet had explained the tragedy of Ashura and the slaughtering
of his grandson al-Husain and how he will be killed and who kills him and
who assist them and who will be martyred with him. Then Imam Ali (AS)
screamed severely and caused Ibn Abbas (RA) to cry.