Chapter 8The Reaction after KarbalaThe martyrdom of Husayn was of great religious significance The movement began under the leadership of five of the |
Allah b. Walin at-Tami, and Rifa'a b. Shaddad al-Bajali; Detailed accounts of this first meeting and the passionate "We invited the son of the daughter of our Prophet to come to Rifa'a b. Shaddad al-Bajali, another senior member of the "Let us give command of our affairs to Shaykh ash-Shi'a, the The other three leaders named above spoke in the same |
leader on the same grounds as mentioned by Rifa'a. It is With no loss of time Sulayman undertook the organization of Circumstances took a sudden turn in favour of the |
of the Shi'is themselves. The purpose of avenging the blood Abu Mikhnaf has preserved for us a speech of one of these "God chose Muhammad from among all His creatures for His |
son of the first Muslim in Islam and the son of the daughter of the In all the preceding chapters dealing with the developments |
Husayn, and thus to seek God's forgiveness, was a new The campaign of the Tawwabun, however, succeeded in Now with the obstacles removed, Sulayman b. Surad |
which had gone wrong and had become unjust. He asked
At this stage, Al-Mukhtar b. Abi 'Ubayda ath-Thaqafi, also |
strategy or tactics was secondary to the disagreement over the Though the Tawwabun did not openly proclaim any Since 'Ali b. al-Husayn himself refused to make any public |
also that the Tawwabun, after their sad experience vis-à-vis The main body of the Tawwabun, however, refused to join As the time for action was approaching, Sulayman b. Surad They spent three days in prayer and remembrance of God "There are two kinds of people. There are those who want the |
benefits of the hereafter, who hurry towards it and do not seek According to Baladhuri the people responded from all
From Nukhayla the Tawwabun first went to Karbala to the When they reached the village of Qarqisiya, the fifth stage
The Tawwabun ultimately reached 'Ayn al-Warda and |
for the Turabites!" (23) The battle lasted for three days, and the In an attempt to analyse the Tawwabun movement, a few All of these facts, however, indicate two fundamental |
Notes to Chapter 8
(1)Baladhuri, V, pp.204 ff.; Tabari, II, p.497; Mas'udi, Muruj, III, p.93; Welihausen, Die religios politischen Oppositionsparteien im alten Islam trans. 'Abd ar-Rahman Badawi, Ahzab al-mu'arada as- siyasiya al-diniya fi sadr al-Islam (Cairo, 1968), p. 189 (2)Tabari, II, p. 498; Welihausen, loc. cit. (3)Tabari, II, p. 498; Baladhuri, V, pp.204 f. (4)Tabari, II, p.497; Baladhuri, loc. cit. (5)Tabari, II, p. 498; Baladhuri, V, p.205 (6)Tabari, II, p.499; Baladhuri, loc. cit. (7 Tabari, II, pp.499 f.; Baladhuri, V, pp.205 f. (8)Tabari, loc. cit.; Baladhuri, loc. cit. (9)Tabari, II, pp. 506-7 (10)Tabari, II, pp. 507-8 (11)Baladhuri, V, p. 2o8 (12)Baladhuri, V. p. 207 (13)Baladhuri, V, p.207; Tabari, II, p.509 (14)Tabari, II, pp.502-s (15)Baladhuri, V, p.207; Tabari, II, p.509 (16)Baladhuri, loc. cit.; Tabari, loc. cit. (17)Mas'udi, Muruj ; III, p.93 (18)Tabari, II, pp.543 f.; Baladhuri, V, p.209 (19)Tabari, II, p.545 (20)Baladhuri, V, p.209 (21)Baladhuri, loc. cit.; Tabari, II, p. 546; Welihausen, Ahzab, p.194 (22)Ahzab, p.194. Cf. Tabari, II, p. 546; Baladhuri, V, p.209 (23)Mas'udi, Muruj, III, p.94. "Turabites": reference to Abu Turab, 'Ali's kunya. (24)See the detailed account of 'Ayn al-Warda in Baladhuri, V, pp.210 f.; Tabari, II, pp. 558 ff; Mas'udi, Muruj, III, p.94 (25)Welihausen, Ahzab, p.194 (26)See Tabari, II, pp.497, 559, 566, 599, 601; Baladhuri, V, pp.207 ff.; Welihausen, loc. cit. (27)Welihausen, loc. cit. |