Draft:Hanzala b. Marwa al-Hamdani

Ḥanẓala b. Marwa al-Hamdānī (Arabic: حَنْظَلة بن مَروه هَمْدانی) is introduced as one of the martyrs in Kufa who died in support of Muslim b. Aqil. It is said that upon entering Kufa, he witnessed a group of people dragging the corpse of Muslim on the ground. After learning Muslim's identity, Hanzala drew his sword and engaged those individuals in combat. He was martyred after killing fourteen of them. Following his martyrdom, his body was dragged face-down and placed next to Muslim's corpse in the Kunnasa of Kufa.

The story continues that the wife of Maytham al-Tammar went to the Kunnasa of Kufa at night and took the bodies of Muslim, Hani b. Urwa, and Hanzala to her home. She then buried them near the Great Mosque of Kufa in the middle of the night. Hanzala is considered to be among the Shi'a of Imam Ali (a) and a resident of Waqisa (a place three days' distance from Kufa). Some sources state his age was twenty-five.

According to Mohammad Reza Sangari (b. 1954), an Ashura researcher, the story of Hanzala b. Marwa al-Hamdani is cited only in the book Ma'ali al-sibtain, which quotes it from the book Qabasat by Darwish Ali Baghdadi (1805–1860); it has not been found in any other source. Shamshirzan-i Sabur (The Patient Swordsman) is the title of a book about Hanzala b. Marwa written for children and teenagers, published in 2016 as part of the "Qissa-yi Ashura" (Story of Ashura) collection.