Maqtal al-Husayn

A detailed and authentic account of the tragedy of Karbala and the sacrifice of Imam Husayn (a).

• Author’s Biography
• Al-Husayn’s Uprising
• The Prophets are on Al-Husayn’s Side
• The Intention to Kill
• The Verse of Perdition
• Al-Husayn’s Prior Knowledge of His Martrydom
• Al-Husayn: A Conqueror
• Al-Husayn Among His Companions
• Al-Husayn on the Taff Day
• Desertion Permitted
• The Shari’a Survided through Al-Husayn
• Mourning Al-Husayn
• Feign Weeping
• Prostrating on the Turba
• Legislating the Ziyarat
• Preferring Them over all Others
• Composing Poetry in Their Memory
• The Question of Marching With the Family
• ‘Alawides Revolutions
• The Epic of Karbala’
• Yazid, Son of Mu’awiyah
• Men Expressing Fear for Al-Husayn
• The Will
• Departure from Medina
• In Mecca
• The Kufians Letters
• Al-Husayn Responds
• Muslim Starts his Trip
• Entering Kufa
• The Oath of Allegiance
• Muslim’s Stand
• Hani’s Stand
• Muslim’s Uprising
• al-Mukhtar is Jailed
• Muslim at the House of Taw’a
• Muslim Meets Ibn Ziyad
• The Journey to Iraq
• Karbala’
• Ibn Ziyad Meets Al-Husayn
• Ibn Ziyad Delivers a Speech
• Al-Husayn Meets the Kufians
• The Seventh Day
• Conceit of Ibn Sa’d
• Calumny of Ibn Sa’d
• Al-Shimr’s Oppressiveness
• Security
• Banu Asad
• Day Nine
• Those Whose Conscience is Free
• The Night Preceeding ‘Ashura
• ‘Ashura
• Al-Husayn on ‘Ashura
• The First Campaign
• Martrydom of Ahl al-Bayt
• Campaign of the Family of Abu Talib
• The Master of Martyrs on the Battle Field
• Post Martrydom Events
• The Eleventh Night in the Company of al-Husayn (‘a)
• The Looting
• The Steed
• The Severed Heads
• Departing from Karbala’
• Kufa
• The Burial
• At The Governor's Mansion
• The Captives Taken To Syria
• In Syria
• Back to Medina
• The Severed Head Rejoins the Body
• The Arba’in
• A Summary of the Marks of a Mu’min
• In Medina
• Conclusion
• Eulogies
• Glossary