The Captivity Journey

Kufa’s Reception of the Rest of the Hussain Convoy

All the people of Kufa went to the streets to witness the celebration of Bin Ziad welcoming his victorious army!

Yet the streets, roads, and passages of Kufa got full of all the men, women and children, and when the women saw the state of the captivated women, how they were riding on camels’ backs with no saddles, they started to weep and hit their cheeks. Just then, Imam Zein El-Abedeen (Q) said to them with a faint voice, while the chain was around his neck and his hands were tied up: "These ladies are weeping! So, who did kill us?!"

One of the ladies of Kufa looked from her roof and asked the ladies: "To which families do you belong?" They answered: "We are the families of the progeny of Muhammad (P)”.

So, the woman came down of her house to gather some veils, covers and clothes, and she gave them to the ladies, and they covered themselves.

Muslim Al-Jassas had narrated that while he was mending the Imamate Castle, he heard loud screams from Kufa, so he asked about the reason and he was told that the army had brought the head of a repellent who did not obey Yazeed. When he learned that it was the head of Imam Hussain Bin Ali (Q) he started slapping his face until his eyes almost popped out. He also saw ladies, women, and the children of Fatima O, while Ali Bin Al-Hussain (Q) was on a camel’s back with no saddle while blood was coming out of his veins. He went on saying:

O bad nation, may your lands never be watered

O nation that did not care for our Grandfather’s sanctity when dealing with us.

The people of Kufa started to hand the children who were on the camels’ backs some dates, bread and walnuts. Yet, the daughter of the Prince of believers (Q) yelled at them saying: "O people of Kufa, charity is prohibited to us!" And she started taking the food away from the children’s hands and mouths and said: "Quiet O people of Kufa, your men kill us, and your women weep for us!  Allah shall be the Judge between you and us on the Judgment Day".

She (O) intended from returning the charity of the people of Kufa to let the people know that the captives of this convoy are not ordinary people, indeed they are the family of the Messenger of Allah (P), whom love and obedience were imposed by Allah (SW).