Had he been of Bakr, battalions would have rallied round him,
their ardor boiling (1) and unceasing.
Yet the bond of protection was lost; on that day
no generous man of Mudar was to be seen.
May Allah repay the Kufan there with censure, and their man of Basra as well—
for the blameworthy (2) is indeed deserving of blame.
The sons of co-wives abandoned our flanks,
though among them we were of pure and sovereign blood.
If we are cut down, those men will leave thereafter
no inviolate sanctuary for anyone honored among the Muslims.

Abu Ḥātim al-Rāzī said:
Yahyā ibn Muṣʿab al-Kalbī related to us, saying: Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, who said:
“I entered the palace in Kūfa and saw the head of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī upon a shield before ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ziyād, while ʿUbayd Allah sat on the throne. Some time later I entered the palace again and saw the head of ʿUbayd Allah ibn Ziyād on a shield before al-Mukhtār, al-Mukhtār on the throne. Yet later I went in once more and saw the head of al-Mukhtār on a shield before Muṣʿab ibn al-Zubayr, Muṣʿab on the throne. After another interval I returned and saw the head of Muṣʿab ibn al-Zubayr on a shield before ʿAbd al-Malik, and ʿAbd al-Malik was on the throne (3).”

Imam Aḥmad (4) and others transmitted this same report from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr.

ʿAbd Allah ibn Qays al-Raqiyyāt (5) also lamented Muṣʿab, saying:
May the laden clouds and all the stars together give drink
to the body in Maskan, its joints laid bare;
Wild beasts now seek his refuge by night, and his dwelling stands
a ruin where only the winds hold sway;
The comrades departed, leaving him lying there for the breeze—
between the gentle east wind and the north.

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Musʿab’s children were: ʿUkkāshah; ʿĪsā, who was killed alongside him; and Sukaynah—their mother was Fāṭimah bint ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Sāʾib; ʿAbd Allah and Muḥammad, whose mother was ʿĀʾishah bint Ṭalḥah, herself the daughter of Umm Kulthūm bint Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq; and Jaʿfar, Muṣʿab, Saʿīd, the younger ʿĪsā, and al-Mundhir, each by different mothers; as well as al-Rabāb, whose mother was Sukaynah bint al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (may Allah be pleased with him and with them) (6).