the house of Umm Salamah. He then cast over Fāṭimah, her two sons, and her husband a cloak from Khaybar and announced: “Allah only intends to remove from you all defilement, O People of the House, and to purify you completely” (al-Aḥzāb 33).

Concerning the chain: Sulaymān was judged weak, and al-Ḥanafī was considered suspect.

It is also transmitted from Abū Dāwūd al-Sabīʿī, on the authority of Zayd ibn Arqam, who said:
“I was with ʿUbayd Allah when the head of Ḥusayn was brought in. He picked up a small cane and began to part his lips with it. I had never seen a set of teeth more beautiful—they were like pearls. I could not restrain myself and raised my voice in tears.

He asked, ‘Old man, what makes you weep?’

I replied, ‘What I remember from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I saw him sucking the very place you are touching with your cane, kissing it, and saying, ‘O Allah, I love him, so love him.’’’

Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated—from ʿAmmār ibn Abī ʿAmmār, from Ibn ʿAbbās:
“I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in a dream at midday, disheveled and dusty, holding a vial filled with blood. I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, what is this?’ He answered, ‘This is the blood of Ḥusayn and his companions; I have been gathering it since this morning.’ The day was counted and it proved to be the very day on which he was killed. (1)

Ibn Saʿd reports—through al-Wāqidī and al-Madāʾinī, from their respective authorities—that Muḥfaz ibn Thaʿlabah al-ʿĀʾidhī arrived before Yazīd carrying the head of Ḥusayn and said, ‘I have brought you, Commander of the Faithful, the head of the most foolish and most ignoble of people.’

Yazīd replied, ‘No one more foolish or ignoble was ever borne by Muḥfaz’s mother! Rather, the man failed to reflect on Allah’s words: “Say: O Allah, Lord of all sovereignty, You grant sovereignty to whom You will…” (Āl ʿImrān 26).’

Yazīd then sent the head of Ḥusayn to the governor of Madīnah,