Yazid b. Mu'awiya: Difference between revisions

According to sources, when Yazid reached the power, ordered the governor of Medina, “force Husayn (a) to give allegiance and if he (a) refuses, send me his head.” Imam al- Husayn (a) did not give allegiance to Yazid and went to Mecca with his family and some of Bani Hashim. Kufis sent many letters to Imam (a) and invited him to Kufa; so, Imam (a) moved toward Kufa. Yazid appointed ‘Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad as the governor of Kufa and he could make people give up supporting Imam (a). After Kufis broke their promise, Imam (a) went toward Karbala. On Muharram 10th, he (a) encountered the army of ‘Umar b. Sa’d who was appointed as the commander.

In this battle, Imam al-Husayn (a) and his children, his brother ‘Abbas (a), 17 people of Bani Hashim and more than 50 of his companions were martyred. After the battle, the horsemen of Yazid’s army trampled the bodies of the martyrs, attacked the tents of surviving ones, took anything which were left as booty and set fire to the tents. Due to illness, Imam al-Sajjad (a) could not fight and survived. He (a) and Lady Zaynab (a) together with other women and children were taken captives by the army of Kufa; who put the heads on spears and took them with the captives to Kufa to ‘Ubayd Allah b. Ziyad and from there to Sham to Yazid.