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===After 'Ashura===
===After 'Ashura===
On [[Muharram 11]], [[61]]/680, 'Umar b. Sa'd commanded his soldiers to cut off the heads of the seventy-two martyrs of Karbala and take them, under the supervision of Shimr and some other commanders, to 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad in Kufa.<ref>Balādhurī, ''Ansāb al-ashrāf'', vol. 2, p. 503; Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh Ṭabarī'', vol. 5, p. 456.</ref>
On [[Muharram 11]], [[61]]/ [[October 11]], [[680]], 'Umar b. Sa'd commanded his soldiers to cut off the heads of the seventy-two martyrs of Karbala and take them, under the supervision of Shimr and some other commanders, to 'Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad in Kufa.<ref>Balādhurī, ''Ansāb al-ashrāf'', vol. 2, p. 503; Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh Ṭabarī'', vol. 5, p. 456.</ref>


Ibn Ziyad, in turn, commissioned Shimr to take the heads and the captives to [[Yazid]] in Damascus.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh Ṭabarī'', vol. 5, p. 460.</ref> At the court of Yazid, Shimr gave an insulting speech about Imam al-Husayn (a) and his companions.<ref>Dīnawarī, ''al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl'', p. 260; Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh Ṭabarī'', vol. 5, p. 459; Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 118.</ref>
Ibn Ziyad, in turn, commissioned Shimr to take the heads and the captives to [[Yazid]] in Damascus.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh Ṭabarī'', vol. 5, p. 460.</ref> At the court of Yazid, Shimr gave an insulting speech about Imam al-Husayn (a) and his companions.<ref>Dīnawarī, ''al-Akhbār al-ṭiwāl'', p. 260; Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh Ṭabarī'', vol. 5, p. 459; Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 118.</ref>
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