THE MOST SACRED HEAD
Yazid ordered al-Husain's head to be brought to him. He put it in a gold washbowl. The women were behind him. Sukayna and Fatima stood and tried anxiously to steal a look at it as Yazid kept hiding it from them. When they did see it, they burst in tears. He then permitted people to enter to see him. Yazid took a rod and kept hitting al-Husain's lips with it saying, "A day for a day: this day is [in revenge] for Badr." Then he cited these verses by al-Hasin ibn al-Hamam
Our folks refused to be to us fair
So swords dripping with blood were to them fair;
We were splitting heads of men held by us as dear
But they to unkindness and injustice were more near.
Yahya ibn al-Hakam ibn Abulas. , brother of Marwan ibn al-Hakam, who was sitting near him, recited these verses:
A head at the Taff is closer in kinship
Than Ibn Ziyad, slave of a mean and lowly descent;
Sumayya's offspring count as many as the stones
But the Progeny of the Chosen One now have no offspring.
Having heard and understood them, Yazid hit him [with the iron rod still in his hand] on his chest saying, "Shut your mouth, motherless man!"
Abu Barzah al-Aslami said, "I bear witness that I saw the Prophet (.) kissing his lips and those of his brother al-Hasan (.) and say to them: `You are the Masters of the Youths of Paradise; may Allah fight whoever fights you; may He curse him and prepare hell for him, and what an evil refuge it is!'" Yazid became angry and ordered him to be dragged out of his court.
A [Christian] messenger sent by Caesar was present there; he said to Yaz§d, "We have in some islands the hoof of the donkey upon which Jesus rode, and we make a pilgrimage to it every year from all lands and offer nathr to it and hold it in as much regard as you hold your sacred books; so, I bear witness that you are wrongdoers." This statement enraged Yaz§d who ordered him to be killed. The messenger stood up, walked to the head, kissed it and pronounced the kalima. At the moment when that messenger's head was cut off, everyone
heard a loud and fluent voice saying: La hawla wala quwwata illa billah! (There is neither power nor might except in Allah).
The head was taken out of the court and hung for three days on the mansion's gate. When Hind daughter of `Amr ibn Suhayl, Yazid's wife, saw the head on her house's door with divine light emanating from it, its blood still fresh and had not yet dried, and it was emitting a sweet fragrance, she entered Yazid's court without a veil crying, "The head of the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (.) is on our door!" Yazid stood up, covered her and said, "Mourn him, O Hind, for he is the reason why Banu Hashim are grieving. [`Ubaydullah] Ibn Ziyad
hastily killed him."
Yaz§d ordered the heads to be hung on the land's gates and on the Umayyad Mosque, and his order was carried out. Marwan [ibn al-Hakam] was very happy about al-Husain (.) being killed, so he composed this poetry:
Dawser hit them with such a blow
That firmed authority's foundations,
So authority now is stable.
Then he kept hitting al-Husain's face with a rod as he was repeating these poetry lines:
How I wish your garment were on your arms
And redness were on your cheeks,
Looking like pieces of gold twain,
How happy I am today having killed Husain!
........contd.
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