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Chapter 29: Lamentation Of Jinns On Imam Al-Husayn ('A)

Tradition 1: Lady Umm Salama, wife of the Prophet, said: I did not hear the lamentation of Jinns since the night Allah took the life of His Prophet (S) until tonight and did not see them till when I was afflicted by the killing of my son, Husayn ('a). Umm Salama says: I heard a Jinn recite the following:

These two eyes of mine shed abundant tears. Because after me who will weep over the martyrs?

Weep upon over a group who are being led towards their death by a tyrant from the progeny of a slave.

Tradition 2: Maythami said: Five persons from Kufa set out to go and help Imam Al-Husayn ('a). On their journey, they passed by a village called Shahi where they met two men, one of whom was elderly and the other, a youth. They greeted the five men.

The old man said, “I am a Jinn and this is my nephew. We also want to help the oppressed one [Imam Al-Husayn ('a)] and I have an idea.” ·

“What is it?”

He replied, “I will fly swiftly and bring information about the situation so that you can go to him informed.”

They said, “It is an excellent idea.”

So, he disappeared from their sight. After an entire day, they heard his voice reciting the following but could not see him:

By Allah, I did not return until I saw him in Taff with his cheeks covered with dust and he had been slaughtered.

He was surrounded by some youth whose throats were bleeding; they were shining lamps whose light had overcome darkness.

I spurred my mount so that I could meet them before they met the virgin Houries (in Paradise).

Husayn ('a) was a light of guidance and Allah is my witness that I am not forging a lie. ·

He resides pleased in rooms in the neighbourhood of Allah's Messenger (S), Batul (‘a) and Ja'far Tayyar.

One of the men replied by reciting the following:

Go back and stay at the grave through which rains of blessings fall until Judgment Day.

I follow the same path as yours and drink from a cup which filled with blessings.

And I also follow the path of those who freed themselves from everything for Allah's sake and abandoned their houses, wealth and loved ones.

Tradition 3: When Imam Al-Husayn ('a) was martyred, masons who worked in Jabbanah, heard the lamentation of Jinns at dawn. They heard them recite the following:

Allah's Messenger (S) rubbed his hands over Imam Al-Husayn's forehead, so his cheeks radiate with light.

His parents are from the nobles of Quraish and his grandfather is the best of the grandfathers.

Tradition 4: The Jinn wept over Imam Al-Husayn ('a) and recited the following:

To whom do these houses in Taff belong, the houses which were built unwillingly?

These are houses of Husayn ('a) in reciprocation of each other's lamentation on Husayn ('a).

Tradition 5: A lady heard the Jinn recite the following poem about Imam Al-Husayn ('a):

O eyes, shed tears over Imam Al-Husayn ('a), for indeed, the aggrieved cry with sorrow.

O eyes, do not allow the people of Medina to distract you from remembering the Aali Muhammad ('a) and weeping on their calamities.

Their bodies were abandoned for three days in the desert when they were martyred.

Tradition 6: Abdullah Ibn Hasan Kinani said: The Jinn lamented on Imam Al-Husayn Ibn Ali ('a) and recited the following:

How will you respond to the Prophet if he asks you:

You, who are the last of the nations. What did you do to my family, brothers and those I honoured?

Why are they captured or slain, smeared in blood?

Tradition 7: Imam Ar-Ridha’ ('a) said: Imam Al-Husayn ('a) was traveling to Iraq, when he heard a man recite this poem in the middle of the night:

O camel, do not fear my scolding and break out before the rising of dawn.

Carry me to the best of riders on the best of journeys until you arrive at the most honourable place.

Carry me to Husayn, whose grandfather is the most glorious and Husayn ('a) is the most magnanimous. Indeed, Allah has chosen him for the best of affairs.

May he remain until the end of time!

Imam Al-Husayn ('a) replied by the following:

I shall go towards death and there is no shame for a man in death as long as his intentions are based on truth and he fights Jihad as a Muslim.

There is no shame in death for the valiant as long as they support the righteous, fight the criminals and abandon the criminals.

Thus, if I live, I shalt not have any regrets and if I am slain, I will not be blamed. Nothing is more humiliating than living under humiliation of oppressors.

Tradition 8: Imam Al-Baqir ('a) said: When Imam Al-Husayn ('a) was about to leave Medina, the ladies of Bani Abdul Muttalib gathered and began lamentation.

Imam Al-Husayn ('a) began walking between them and said, “I ask you by Allah not to disobey Allah and His Messenger (S) by revealing this matter.”

The ladies replied: Then who should we cry and mourn over if we don't mourn today? For today is like the day when Allah's Messenger (S), Ali, Fatimah, Ruqaiyyah, Zainab and Umm Kulthum passed away.

May we be sacrificed on you, we adjure you in the name of Allah, to be your ransom to keep death away from you.

Then one of his aunts came forth crying and said: O Husayni I bear witness that I heard the Jinn lament over you and recite the following:

Indeed, the slain one from the family of Hashim lowered the necks of Quraish and disgraced them.

He was the beloved of Allah's Messenger (S) and not an immoderate person.

Your tragedy is the greatest and it has aggrieved all. Imam Al-Baqir ('a) said: Jinns also recited the following:

Weep over Husayn ('a), the master, the one whose death turned the hairs grey.

You are afflicted with earthquakes and the moon had eclipsed because of his martyrdom.

And the horizons turn red at sunrise and sunset.

And the sun is covered with dust and earths with darkness.

He is the son of Fatimah (‘a) and all the creation is afflicted by his tragedy.

We have lost our glory and inherited humiliation.

Tradition 9: On the morning after the martyrdom of Imam Al-Husayn ('a), a servant told us in Medina that he heard an announcer the night before, recite the following:

O those who killed Husayn ('a) unjustly! Be ready for a severe chastisement and torture!

Indeed, all the inhabitants of the heavens, all prophets and all angels curse you!

Indeed, you are cursed by Ibn Dawood ('a), Musa ('a) and Isa Ibn Maryam who brought the Injil'.

Tradition 10: When Imam Al-Husayn ('a) was martyred, the jinn lamented for him and recited the following:

O my eyes, shed abundant tears! Cry, for indeed, the news was accurate!

Cry over the son of Fatimah (‘a) who went to Euphrates but never returned!

Jinns wept on him in pain when they heard the news of Husayn's ('a) and his companions' martyrdom. What terrible news!

I shall cry in agony over you morning and night and I shall cry for you as long as there is blood in my veins and as long as the trees bear fruits.