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== Morning of Ashura == | == Morning of Ashura == | ||
[[File:واقعه طف.jpg|250px|thumbnail|right|The old painting shows the battlefield where the fight between [[Imam al-Husayn (a)]] and the Army of [[Yazid b. Mu'awiya]] happened.]] | [[File:واقعه طف.jpg|250px|thumbnail|right|The old painting shows the battlefield where the fight between [[Imam al-Husayn (a)]] and the Army of [[Yazid b. Mu'awiya]] happened.]] | ||
In the morning of | In the morning of Ashura, Imam al-Husayn (a) performed [[Fajr prayer]] together with his companions.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk'', vol. 5, p. 423.</ref> Then, the Imam (a) arranged his forces which consisted of 32 horsemen and 40-foot soldiers.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk'', vol. 5, p. 423; Balādhurī, ''ansāb al-ashrāf'', vol. 3, p. 395; Dīnawarī, ''al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl'', p. 256.</ref> He (a) assigned [[Zuhayr b. Qayn]] as the commander of the right-wing and [[Habib b. Muzahir]] as the commander of the left-wing and gave the standard of his army to his brother [['Abbas (a)]].<ref>Balādhurī, ''ansāb al-ashrāf'', vol. 3, p. 395; Dīnawarī, ''al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl'', p. 256; Ibn Athīr, ''al-Kāmīl fī l-tārīkh'', vol. 4, p. 59. | ||
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