that Kaʿb once passed by ʿAlī and said, “A man from this man’s progeny will be killed together with a company whose horses’ sweat will not have dried before they meet Muhammad ﷺ.”
When al-Ḥasan walked past, someone asked, “Is it he?”
He replied, “No.”
Then al-Ḥusayn passed by, and it was asked, “Is it he?”
He said, “Yes.” (1)

Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—on the authority of al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Abī ʿĀʾishah, from his father, from Rās al-Jālūt (the Jewish exilarch)—said:
“We used to hear that at Karbalāʾ a prophet’s son would be killed.” (2)

Al-Muṭṭalib ibn Ziyād, from al-Suddī, said:
“I saw al-Ḥusayn with a thick lock of hair hanging down from beneath his turban.” (3)

Al-ʿAyzār ibn Ḥurayth said: “I saw al-Ḥusayn wearing a mantle of khazz (fine silk brocade).”

Al-Shaʿbī said: “I saw al-Ḥusayn wearing a signet ring in the month of Ramadan.” (4)

A number of transmitters have related that al-Ḥusayn used to dye his hair with wasmah (indigo) and that the color of his dye was black. (5)

It has reached us that al-Ḥusayn was displeased with his brother al-Ḥasan’s decision to relinquish the caliphate to Muʿāwiyah; in his view the duty was to fight. Yet he restrained himself, obeyed his brother, and offered the pledge of allegiance.

He would accept Muʿāwiyah’s gifts, and Muʿāwiyah, for his part, esteemed, honored, and revered him. When, however, Muʿāwiyah—after the passing of the noble al-Ḥasan—took the step of bequeathing the caliphate to his own son Yazīd, al-Ḥusayn was deeply grieved