Notes
1. - Qur’an Ch: 62, Vs: 6 – 7.
2. - Bihar al-Anwar 6: 128 (hadith 14)
3. - Qur’an Ch: 8, Vs: 13-14
4. - Qur’an Ch: 7 Vs: 56.
5. - Bihar al-Anwar 6:137 (hadith 72)
6. - Al-Muqarram’s Maqtal al-Al-Husayn (a.s.): 286.
7. Qur’an, Ch: 2, Vs: 138.
8. Qur’an, Ch: 4, Vs: 145.
9. Sheikh al-Samawi’s Ibsar al-Ayn fi Ansar al-Husayn (a.s) pg 21-22.
10. Qur’an Ch: 50, Vs: 2
. Makarim al-Akhlaq: 2.
11. Makarim al-Akhlaq: 452.
12. Kanz al-Ummal i: 76 (hadith 302).
13. Ghurar al-Hikam: 413 (Ch: 42 No. 25)
14. Ibn al-Athir’s Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh 4: 57, Beirut ed. 1965. In Al-Muntazam, Ibn al-Jawzi has recorded another version of the Imam’s speech: ‘It is recorded in Sayyid al-Muqarram’s Maqtal al-Husayn (a.s) that he said: “You are free from your oath of allegiance to me so join your clans and clients” And he said to His family: “You are permitted to leave me for you cannot stand them by virtue of their great numbers and strength, and no one is wanted except me. The Sublime and Mighty God will support me and never deprive me of His good watch as was His wont with our good forebears.”
A group of people left his camp and then his family said to him: “We will not part from you. Whatever grieves you should grieve us and whatever befalls you should befall us, we shall be nearest to God when we are with you.’ He said to them: If you have prepared yourselves for what I have prepared myself then know that God bestows honourable stations for His servants only because they bear adversities, and that God has conferred on me and on my family, of whom I am the last to stay in the world, such honours that will make it easy for me to bear adversities. I
ndeed you have a portion of God’s honours. Know that the sweet and the bitter of this world are but a dream and the hereafter is the place for waking up, and the successful is the one who succeeds in it and the damned is the one who is damned in it”.
15. Ibn Athir’s Al-Tarikh, 4:58.
16. Al-Muntazam 5: 179; Tarikh al-Tabari 6: 239.
17. Bihar al-Anwar 44: 298; Al-Bahrani’s Al-Awalim: 350.
18. Tarikh Ibn Asakir 13: 54; Tahdhib al-Tahdhib 1:150, al-Maqarram’s Maqtal al-Husayn (a.s) 165-170.
19. Al-Muhaddith al-Qummi’s Nafas al-Mahmum 230.