ʿIshāq ibn Ibrāhīm related: It has reached me that al-Ḥusayn once visited the cemetery of the martyrs in al-Baqīʿ and said:

I called the dwellers of the graves, but they kept their silence,
yet from that silence the lament of scattered bones replied.
It cried, “Do you know what I have done to those within?—
I tore their flesh asunder and I rent their shrouds.
I stuffed their eyes with earth, though once they smarted
at the merest speck of dust.
As for their bones, I shattered them
until joints and limbs lay far apart.
I severed this from that and that from this,
and left them as decayed remains round which ruin prowls.” ⦗1⦘

Someone also recited on al-Ḥusayn’s (may Allah be pleased with him) authority:

If this world is reckoned precious,
the abode of Allah’s reward is higher and nobler.
If bodies were created only to die,
then to be slain by the sword for Allah is better.
If sustenance is something already apportioned,
less striving for a livelihood is the finer course.
If wealth is gathered only to be left behind,
why then should a man be stingy with what he must forsake? ⦗2⦘

Among what al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār transmitted of his verse about his wife al-Rabāb bint Anīf—some say, the daughter of Imriʾ al-Qays ibn ʿAdī ibn Aws al-Kalbī—mother of his daughter Sukaynah:

By your life, I surely love a house
where Sukaynah and al-Rabāb abide.
I love them both and lavish most of my wealth on them;
no rebuke from the censurer counts with me.
Nor shall I heed, though they reproach,
until I live no more, or earth enshrouds me. ⦗3⦘

Her father had embraced Islam at the hands of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, and ʿUmar appointed him over his people. When he departed from ʿUmar, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib asked him to marry his two sons, al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn, to his daughters. He therefore married al-Ḥasan to his daughter Salmā, al-Ḥusayn to his daughter al-Rabāb, and in that same hour gave his third daughter—al-Muḥayyāʾ bint Imriʾ al-Qays—in marriage to ʿAlī. Al-Ḥusayn loved his wife al-Rabāb deeply, was captivated by her, and would compose poetry ⦗4⦘ in her praise.

When he was killed at Karbalāʾ she was with him, and her grief for him was intense. It is said that she remained at his grave for a full year and then departed, saying:

After the year is past, Peace be upon you both;
whoever weeps an entire year has surely made his plea. ⦗5⦘