Today is the anniversary of the martyrdom of the nephew Imam Hussein bin Ali, may God be pleased with them, in the famous site of Karbala, which corresponds to 12 October AD, the tenth of Muharram.
The question of whether the head of Imam Hussein exists, may God be pleased with him, remains a matter of contention today.There are many sources and they differ in his presence, between Karbala in Iraq and others in Damascus, Palestine and Cairo. writer and thinker Abbas al-Akkad says his famous phrase: In every place there are people of reverence and honor. ” In his book, Abu Al-Shuhada Al-Hussein bin Ali.
The sayings on the grave of Hussein’s body, peace be upon him, were in accord with Karbala and differed in the place of the honorable leader.
First opinion:
The head was returned to Karbala after a while and was buried with the body there.
The second opinion:
He was sent by Amr bin Saeed bin Al-Aas, governor of Al-Madinah, and buried him in Al-Baqi ‘, near the grave of his mother, Fatimah Al-Zahra.
Third opinion:
He was found in the treasury of Yazid bin Muawiyah after his death, then he was buried in Damascus at the Gate of Heaven.
Fourth opinion:
She had traveled with him all over the country until she reached Ashkelon, and her emir buried him there, and she stayed there until the Franks took her in the Crusades.
Fifth opinion:
After the Franks took the lead in the crusades, al-Salih, the vanguard of the Fatimids in Egypt, gave them thirty thousand dirhams, to transfer it to Cairo, where he was buried in his famous scene Sharif, and placed it in a green silk bag. on an ebony chair, and under it scattered musk, amber, and perfume.
Sixth opinion:
Sibt ibn al-Jawzi mentioned as mentioned among the various sayings that the chief was in the mosque of al-Raqqa on the Euphrates, and that when he was brought before Yazid ibn Muawiyah, he said: “I will send him to the family of Abu Muait under the ‘authority of Ras Uthman ”. They were in Raqqa, so they buried him in some of their houses, then I went into that house in the Jami Mosque, which is there by the wall.
The places mentioned in this regard are six in six cities: Medina, Karbala, Raqqa, Damascus, Ashkelon and Cairo. It enters the countries of Hijaz, Iraq, the Levant, Beit al-Maqdis and the Egyptian lands, and includes almost the entire Islamic world from beyond those countries.
