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On the 7th of Muharram, when [[Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad]] ordered [['Umar b. Sa'd]] to subdue Husayn (a) and his companions and prevent their access to the water of the [[Euphrates]], Imam (a) called al-'Abbas and sent thirty horsemen with twenty foot-soldiers with him to fill leather water pouches with water and return to the camp. In this attack, no | On the 7th of Muharram, when [[Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad]] ordered [['Umar b. Sa'd]] to subdue Husayn (a) and his companions and prevent their access to the water of the [[Euphrates]], Imam (a) called al-'Abbas and sent thirty horsemen with twenty foot-soldiers with him to fill leather water pouches with water and return to the camp. In this attack, there were no causalities from amongst the companions of Imam al-Husayn (a) but some of the troops of Umar b. Sa'd were killed.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk'', vol. 5, p. 412; Amīn, ''Aʿyān al-Shīʿa'', vol. 7, p. 430; Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī, ''Maqātil al-ṭālibīyyīn'', p. 78</ref> | ||
On the day of Ashura', he (a) went again to the Euphrates to bring water by Imam's (a) order. However, when he filled a leather water pouch, on the way back to the tents, they shot his leather water pouch and martyred him.<ref>Pīshwāyī, ''Maqtal-i jāmiʿ-i Sayyid al-shuhadāʾ'', vol. 1, p. 838</ref> | On the day of Ashura', he (a) went again to the Euphrates to bring water by Imam's (a) order. However, when he filled a leather water pouch, on the way back to the tents, they shot his leather water pouch and martyred him.<ref>Pīshwāyī, ''Maqtal-i jāmiʿ-i Sayyid al-shuhadāʾ'', vol. 1, p. 838</ref> | ||