Maqtal al-Husayn

Chapters

1. Author’s Biography
2. Al-Husayn’s Uprising
3. The Prophets are on Al-Husayn’s Side
4. The Intention to Kill
5. The Verse of Perdition
6. Al-Husayn’s Prior Knowledge of His Martrydom
7. Al-Husayn: A Conqueror
8. Al-Husayn Among His Companions
9. Al-Husayn on the Taff Day
10. Desertion Permitted
11. The Shari’a Survided through Al-Husayn
12. Mourning Al-Husayn
13. Feign Weeping
14. Prostrating on the Turba
15. Legislating the Ziyarat
16. Preferring Them over all Others
17. Composing Poetry in Their Memory
18. The Question of Marching With the Family
19. ‘Alawides Revolutions
20. The Epic of Karbala’
21. Yazid, Son of Mu’awiyah
22. Men Expressing Fear for Al-Husayn
23. The Will
24. Departure from Medina
25. In Mecca
26. The Kufians Letters
27. Al-Husayn Responds
28. Muslim Starts his Trip
29. Entering Kufa
30. The Oath of Allegiance
31. Muslim’s Stand
32. Hani’s Stand
33. Muslim’s Uprising
34. al-Mukhtar is Jailed
35. Muslim at the House of Taw’a
36. Muslim Meets Ibn Ziyad
37. The Journey to Iraq
38. Karbala’
39. Ibn Ziyad Meets Al-Husayn
40. Ibn Ziyad Delivers a Speech
41. Al-Husayn Meets the Kufians
42. The Seventh Day
43. Conceit of Ibn Sa’d
44. Calumny of Ibn Sa’d
45. Al-Shimr’s Oppressiveness
46. Security
47. Banu Asad
48. Day Nine
49. Those Whose Conscience is Free
50. The Night Preceeding ‘Ashura
51. ‘Ashura
52. Al-Husayn on ‘Ashura
53. The First Campaign
54. Martrydom of Ahl al-Bayt
55. Campaign of the Family of Abu Talib
56. The Master of Martyrs on the Battle Field
57. Post Martrydom Events
58. The Eleventh Night in the Company of al-Husayn (‘a)
59. The Looting
60. The Steed
61. The Severed Heads
62. Departing from Karbala’
63. Kufa
64. The Burial
65. At The Governor's Mansion
66. The Captives Taken To Syria
67. In Syria
68. Back to Medina
69. The Severed Head Rejoins the Body
70. The Arba’in
71. A Summary of the Marks of a Mu’min
72. In Medina
73. Conclusion
74. Eulogies
75. Glossary