A detailed and authentic account of the tragedy of Karbala and the sacrifice of Imam Husayn (a).
- Maqtal al-Husayn
- Author’s Biography
- Al-Husayn’s Uprising
- The Prophets are on Al-Husayn’s Side
- The Intention to Kill
- The Verse of Perdition
- Al-Husayn’s Prior Knowledge of His Martrydom
- Al-Husayn: A Conqueror
- Al-Husayn Among His Companions
- Al-Husayn on the Taff Day
- Desertion Permitted
- The Shari’a Survided through Al-Husayn
- Mourning Al-Husayn
- Feign Weeping
- Prostrating on the Turba
- Legislating the Ziyarat
- Preferring Them over all Others
- Composing Poetry in Their Memory
- The Question of Marching With the Family
- ‘Alawides Revolutions
- The Epic of Karbala’
- Yazid, Son of Mu’awiyah
- Men Expressing Fear for Al-Husayn
- The Will
- Departure from Medina
- In Mecca
- The Kufians Letters
- Al-Husayn Responds
- Muslim Starts his Trip
- Entering Kufa
- The Oath of Allegiance
- Muslim’s Stand
- Hani’s Stand
- Muslim’s Uprising
- al-Mukhtar is Jailed
- Muslim at the House of Taw’a
- Muslim Meets Ibn Ziyad
- The Journey to Iraq
- Mecca: Al-Husayn (‘a) delivers a Sermon
- Attempts to Dissuade Him From Departing
- Why did the Imam Leave?
- al-Tanim
- al-Sifah
- That ‘Irq
- al-Hajir
- Some Informers
- al-Khuzaymiyya
- Zarud
- al-Tha’labiyya
- al-Shuquq
- Zubala
- In the Heartland of al-Aqaba
- Sharaf
- al-Bayda
- al-Ruhayma
- al-Qadisiyya
- al-Utahyb
- Qasr Bani Muqatil
- The Taff Villages
- Karbala’
- Ibn Ziyad Meets Al-Husayn
- Ibn Ziyad Delivers a Speech
- Al-Husayn Meets the Kufians
- The Seventh Day
- Conceit of Ibn Sa’d
- Calumny of Ibn Sa’d
- Al-Shimr’s Oppressiveness
- Security
- Banu Asad
- Day Nine
- Those Whose Conscience is Free
- The Night Preceeding ‘Ashura
- ‘Ashura
- Al-Husayn on ‘Ashura
- The First Campaign
- Duels Between Two or Four Warriors
- An Appeal for Help and Guidance
- The Right Wing Remains Firm
- Muslim Ibn Awsajah
- The Left Wing
- ‘Izrah Requests More Re-enforcements
- Abu al-Sha’tha’
- At the time of Zawal
- Habib Ibn Muzahir
- al-Hurr al-Riyahi
- Prayers
- The Horses Harmstrung
- Abu Thumamah
- Zuhayr and Ibn Mudarib
- ‘Amr Ibn Qarzah
- Nafi al-Jamali
- Wadih and Aslam
- Burayr Ibn Hudayr
- Hanzalah al-Shabami
- ‘Abis
- John
- Anas al-Kahili
- ‘Amr Ibn Junadah
- al-Hajjaj al-Ju’fi
- Suwar
- Suwayd
- Martrydom of Ahl al-Bayt
- Campaign of the Family of Abu Talib
- The Master of Martyrs on the Battle Field
- Post Martrydom Events
- The Eleventh Night in the Company of al-Husayn (‘a)
- The Looting
- The Steed
- The Severed Heads
- Departing from Karbala’
- Kufa
- The Burial
- At The Governor's Mansion
- The Captives Taken To Syria
- In Syria
- Back to Medina
- The Severed Head Rejoins the Body
- The Arba’in
- A Summary of the Marks of a Mu’min
- In Medina
- Conclusion
- Eulogies
- Glossary
