Indeed these afflictions surpassed those meted out at Karbala in their intensity as well as their hostility. It left the members of Imam Hussain A 's household completely scarred for the rest of their lives. Sayyid Ibne Taoos r. They were taken captives by Yazid's barbarians. In captivity, they were engaged in the mourning and lamenting for their loved ones. They were subjected to such intense humiliation and abasement in that latter half of Ashura, that Ibn Tawoos could never adequately capture that suffering on paper.
Imam Sajjad A replied:. Imam Hussain's severed head gazed at us from atop the lance. Our ladies trailed us mounted on mules. Yazid's sentries held guard on the rear side. Raised lances and spears hovered threatening around us. This was until we reached Damascus and one of the Syrians announced our arrival thus, 'O people of Sham, these are the prisoners from the accursed clan! Abdullah b.
Rabeeah narrates: "I was present in Damascus in Yazid b. Muawiyah's court when Imam Hussain A 's household were brought to Sham. Zuhair b. Qais entered the court. Yazid exclaimed, 'Woe to you! What news have you got for me? Hussain A along with eighteen members of his family and his sixty companions confronted us They scurried for shelter like pigeons. They scattered for refuge with panic. All this in as much time taken as to slaughter a camel or of the afternoon siesta.
Till we decimated every single one of them, down to the last rebel. We plundered their corpses, not sparing even their clothes. We dyed their dress with their blood. We ground their faces in the earth so that the sun could cast its blazing heat on them. So that they would be left at the mercy of storms and gales. So that the predators of the desert would linger around them. Ubaydillah b. Ziyad then summoned Imam Hussain A 's head to be advanced. He then summoned the children and the ladies of Imam A 's household.
And ordered that Imam Sajjad A chained in iron fetters and escorted by Makhfar b. Thalabah Aaezee and Shimr b. Zil Jawshan may Allah curse both of them. Imam A walked in studied silence, not conversing with either of his escorts till they reached Damascus. Both Shiite and Sunni historians have recorded that when the carriers of Imam Hussain A 's head reached their first destination, they began drinking alcohol in their euphoria. They were gazing at Imam A 's holy head with regalement and gratification, when a palm emanated off a wall clutching an iron pen, and wrote a few words in blood : "Are the murderers of Hussain A hopeful of the Prophet's S intercession on the Day of Judgement?
