Maqam Ra's al-Husayn (a): Difference between revisions

According to [[Sibt b. al-Jawzi]], Yazid b. Mu'awiya sent Imam al-Husayn's (a) head to the Abu Mu'it's household as a retaliation for [['Uthman b. 'Affan]]'s head, and they buried the head in a house that was later attached to al-Raqqah's Jami' Mosque.  

When the caravan of Karbala's prisoners and the heads of martyrs in Karbala arrived in [[Aleppo]] from [[Iraq]], they stayed near a mountain called "Jawshan" west of Aleppo, besides a monastery called "Marat Marutha". There was a monk in the monastery who bribed the guards of the caravan to put Imam al-Husayn's (a) head on a rock inside the monastery. He stayed near the head until the morning. At the sunrise when they took the head, there were drops of blood on the rock. When the caravan moved on, people of Aleppo learned about the story and congregated around the rock and mourned for Imam al-Husayn (a). According to Shiite accounts, blood used to spring on that rock every year on the [[Day of 'Ashura]], attracting the attention of many people of [[Syria]].