“The Messenger wiped his brow, and a radiance glimmered on his cheeks;
His parents spring from Quraysh’s highest line, and his grandfather is the best of grandfathers.” (1)

Muḥammad ibn Jarīr said: I was informed by Abū ʿUbaydah; Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb narrated to us:

When ʿUbayd Allāh killed al-Ḥusayn and his family, he sent their heads to Yazīd. At first Yazīd rejoiced at their killing, but it was not long before he regretted it and would say, “What would it have cost me to endure the offense, host al-Ḥusayn beside me, and let him decide as he wished—even if that had weakened my position—out of respect for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and in recognition of his right? May Allah curse Ibn Marjānah”—meaning ʿUbayd Allāh—“for he cornered him and forced him. Al-Ḥusayn had asked to be allowed either to return to where he had come from, or to come to me and place his hand in mine, or to go to one of the frontier posts, but he refused him, killed him, and by his death has made the Muslims hate me and has sown enmity toward me in their hearts.”

Jarīr—on the authority of al-Aʿmash—reported:

A man from Banū Asad defecated upon al-Ḥusayn’s grave, whereupon the people of that house were afflicted with derangement, madness, leukoderma, poverty, and leprosy (2).

Hishām ibn al-Kalbī said: When water was let loose over al-Ḥusayn’s grave, its traces disappeared. A Bedouin came, tracked the spot until he located it, then wept and said:

“They tried to hide his grave from the enemy,
but the fragrance of its soil pointed out the grave.”

Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah reported: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, from his father, who said: “ʿAlī was killed while he was—”