and it was also transmitted by Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān, from ʿAbbād ibn Isḥāq (1), from Hāshim, though in this version he does not mention the words, “he lay down.”

Ahmad recorded: Wakīʿ related to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah—or from Umm Salamah—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to her, “An angel has just entered the house—one who had never entered before—and he said, ‘Al-Ḥusayn is going to be killed. If you wish, I can show you the very soil…,’” and so on to the end of the ḥadīth (2).

ʿAbd al-Razzāq also reported it; ʿAbd Allāh conveyed the same to us and stated decisively that it was from Umm Salamah, with no uncertainty.

It is likewise related from Abū Wāʾil, and from Shahr ibn Ḥawshab, on the authority of Umm Salamah; and Ibn Saʿd transmitted it from ʿĀʾishah as well. The report has several other chains.

Hammād ibn Zayd, from Saʿīd ibn Jumhān, narrated that Gabriel brought the Prophet ﷺ some earth from the ground upon which al-Ḥusayn would be killed. It is said that the place is called Karbalāʾ, whereupon the Prophet ﷺ remarked, “kurb wa-balāʾ—distress and affliction.” (3)

Isrāʾīl, from Abū Isḥāq, from Hāniʾ ibn Hāniʾ, from ʿAlī, said: “Al-Ḥusayn will most certainly be slain, and I know the very soil of the land where he will be killed.” (4)

Abū Nuʿaym (5) reported to us: ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn al-ʿAbbās narrated, from ʿAmmār al-Duhnī, that