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Maqtal al-Husayn: Martyrdom Epic of Imam al-Husayn ('a)

Author: Abd al Razzaq al-Muqarram
Translator: Yasin T. al-Jibouri
Publisher: Al-Kharsan Foundation for Publications
Category:

• Author’s Biography
• 1. Authors’ Background
• 2. His Lineage
• 3. His Birth and Upbringing
• 4. His Mentors
• 5. The Status of his Scholarship
• 6. His Style
• 7. His First Book
• 8. Maqtal al-Husayn, the Book
• 9. His Legacy
• A. His Published Books
• B. Introductions and Prefaces for Legacy Books
• C. His Manuscripts
• 10. His Loyalty to Ahl al-Bayt (‘a)
• 11. His Poetry
• 12. How His Life was Concluded
• Al-Husayn’s Uprising
• The Prophets are on Al-Husayn’s Side
• The Intention to Kill
• Introductory Note
• The Verse of Perdition
• Summary
• Al-Husayn’s Prior Knowledge of His Martrydom
• Al-Husayn: A Conqueror
• Al-Husayn Among His Companions
• Introductory Note
• Al-Husayn on the Taff Day
• Desertion Permitted
• Summary
• The Shari’a Survided through Al-Husayn
• Mourning Al-Husayn
• Feign Weeping
• Prostrating on the Turba
• Legislating the Ziyarat
• Preferring Them over all Others
• Composing Poetry in Their Memory
• The Question of Marching With the Family
• ‘Alawides Revolutions
• The Epic of Karbala’
• Muharram has Come
• The Month of Muharram
• Yazid, Son of Mu’awiyah
• Men Expressing Fear for Al-Husayn
• View of ‘Umar al-Atraf
• View of Ibn al-Hanafiyya
• Umm Salamah's View
• View of The Hashimite Ladies
• View Of ‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Umar
• The Will
• Departure from Medina
• In Mecca
• The Kufians Letters
• Al-Husayn Responds
• Muslim Starts his Trip
• Entering Kufa
• The Oath of Allegiance
• Muslim’s Stand
• Hani’s Stand
• Muslim’s Uprising
• al-Mukhtar is Jailed
• Muslim at the House of Taw’a
• Muslim Meets Ibn Ziyad
• The Journey to Iraq
• Mecca: Al-Husayn (‘a) delivers a Sermon
• Attempts to Dissuade Him From Departing
• Why did the Imam Leave?
• al-Tanim
• al-Sifah
• That ‘Irq
• al-Hajir
• Some Informers
• al-Khuzaymiyya
• Zarud
• al-Tha’labiyya
• al-Shuquq
• Zubala
• In the Heartland of al-Aqaba
• Sharaf
• al-Bayda
• al-Ruhayma
• al-Qadisiyya
• al-Utahyb
• Qasr Bani Muqatil
• The Taff Villages
• Karbala’
• Ibn Ziyad Meets Al-Husayn
• Ibn Ziyad Delivers a Speech
• Al-Husayn Meets the Kufians
• The Hosts
• The Seventh Day
• Conceit of Ibn Sa’d
• Calumny of Ibn Sa’d
• Al-Shimr’s Oppressiveness
• Security
• Banu Asad
• Day Nine
• Those Whose Conscience is Free
• The Night Preceeding ‘Ashura
• ‘Ashura
• Al-Husayn on ‘Ashura
• Al-Husayn (‘a) Supplicates
• The First Sermon
• A Miracle and Guidance
• Zuhayr Ibn al-Qayn Delivers a Speech
• Burayr’s Speech
• Al-Husayn’s Second Sermon
• Ibn Sa’ds Misguidance
• al-Hurr Repents
• al-Hurr admonishes the Kufans
• The First Campaign
• Duels Between Two or Four Warriors
• An Appeal for Help and Guidance
• Hearing him, the women cried and wailed
• The Right Wing Remains Firm
• Muslim Ibn Awsajah
• The Left Wing
• ‘Izrah Requests More Re-enforcements
• Abu al-Sha’tha’
• At the time of Zawal
• Habib Ibn Muzahir
• al-Hurr al-Riyahi
• Prayers
• The Horses Harmstrung
• Abu Thumamah
• Zuhayr and Ibn Mudarib
• ‘Amr Ibn Qarzah
• Nafi al-Jamali
• Wadih and Aslam
• Burayr Ibn Hudayr
• Hanzalah al-Shabami
• ‘Abis
• John
• Anas al-Kahili
• ‘Amr Ibn Junadah
• al-Hajjaj al-Ju’fi
• Suwar
• Suwayd
• Martrydom of Ahl al-Bayt
• ‘Ali al-Akbar
• ‘Abdullah Ibn Muslim
• Campaign of the Family of Abu Talib 
• Al-Qasim and His Brother
• Brothers of al-’Abbas
• Martrydom of al-‘Abbas
• The Master of Martyrs on the Battle Field 
• The Infant
• The Second Farewell
• Muhammad Ibn abu Sa’id
• ‘Abdullah son of Imam al-Hasan (‘a)
• The Supplication
• The Horse
• Al-Husayn (‘a) Murdered
• Post Martrydom Events
• The Eleventh Night
• The Eleventh Night in the Company of al-Husayn (‘a)
• The Looting
• The Steed
• The Severed Heads
• Departing from Karbala’
• Kufa
• Zainab’s Speech
• Fatima, Daughter of Al-Husayn (‘a) delivers a Speech
• Umm Kulthum Speaks Out
• al-Sajjad (‘a) Delivers a Speech
• The Burial
• At The Governor's Mansion
• At The Governor's Mansion926
• Ibn ‘Afif
• al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi
• The Sacred Head Speaks
• Oppression of al-Ashdaq
• Umm Al-Baneen
• ‘Abdullah Ibn Ja’far
• ‘Abdullah Ibn Abbas
• The Captives Taken To Syria
• In Syria
• Yazid Meets al-Sajjad (‘a)
• The Most Sacred Head
• A Syrian Encounters Fatima
• Zainab’s Speech
• The House of Ruins
• Back to Medina
• The Severed Head Rejoins the Body
• The Arba’in
• A Summary of the Marks of a Mu’min
• In Medina
• Conclusion
• Eulogies
• Glossary
• References