The Twenty-Eighth Assembly, which is Tuesday, the 5th of Muharram, 368 AH, after he returned from the Shrine of al-Rida (as).

I and Fatima and al-Hasan and al-Husayn were with the Messenger of Allah when he turned his face towards us and started weeping. I said: Why do you weep, O Messenger of Allah? He said: I weep because of what shall be done to you after me. I said: And what is that, O Messenger of Allah? He said: I weep over the strike on you on the side of your head and the slapping of Fatima on her cheek and the stabbing of al-Hasan in the thigh and the poison which he will be given to drink and the killing of al-Husayn. He said: So, the Ahl al-Bayt all wept together. Then, I said: O Messenger of Allah! Our Lord did not create us save for trial. He said: Rejoice, O `Ali, for Allah has confided in me that none shall love you save a believer and none shall hold malice for you save a hypocrite.

When Husayn (as) was delivered from the womb of his mother, I was with her. The Prophet (s) said: O aunt! Bring my son to me. I said: O Messenger of Allah! We have not cleansed him yet. So, the Messenger of Allah (s) said: O aunt! Will you cleanse him?! Surely, Allah has already cleansed and purified him.

When Husayn (as) was delivered from his mother’s womb and I handed him over to the Prophet (saww), the Prophet placed his tongue in his mouth and al-Husayn took to the tongue of the Messenger of Allah, sucking on it. I reckoned that the Messenger of Allah was feeding him either milk or honey. She said: Then, al-Husayn (a.s.) passed urine and the Prophet kissed him between his eyes. Then he handed him over to me while he was weeping and saying: Curse of Allah be on the nation that will kill you, O my son! He stated this thrice. She said: So, I said: May my father and my mother be ransomed for you! Who shall kill him? He said: A remnant of the party of aggressors from the Bani Umayyah (curse of Allah be on them).

We went fighting with `Ali b. Abu Talib (as) in Siffin. When we departed, he descended on Karbala’ and offered his morning prayer on it. Then, he raised its dust towards himself and sniffed at it. Then, he said: Glad-tidings be to you, O dust, for there will nations gathered from you who will enter Paradise without accounting. Hirthima returned to his wife, who was a Shi`a of `Ali (as). He said: Should I narrate to you about your master, Abu’l Hasan? He descended on Karbala’ and prayed. Then, he raised its dust towards himself and he said: Glad-tidings be to you, O dust, for there will nations gathered from you who will enter Paradise without accounting. She said: O man! Surely, Amir al-Mu’minin says nothing but the truth. When al-Husayn (as) advanced, Hirthima said: I was in the expedition of those whom `Ubaydullah b. Ziyad had sent. When I saw the destination and the trees, I remembered the hadith and I sat on my camel. Then I came towards al-Husayn (as) and saluted him and informed him about that which I had heard from his father regarding that destination which al-Husayn (as) had descended on. He said: Are you with us or against us? He said: I am neither with you nor against you. I have left behind sons against whom I fear `Ubaydullah b. Ziyad. He said: Then go away where you will not be able to see our murder nor hear our voice, for, by the One in Whose hand is the soul of al-Husayn, none shall consciously hear us that day and not come to our aid but that Allah will throw him headlong into Hell.

Abu `Abdillah al-Husayn b. `Ali (as) said: I am the martyr of the tear. No believer shall mention me but that he shall shed tears.

I heard al-Sadiq Abu `Abdillah (as) say: When al-Husayn b. `Ali (as) was born, Allah ordered Jibra’il that he descend with a thousand angels and offer congratulations to the Messenger of Allah (s) from Allah and from Jibra’il. He said: So Jibra’il descended and he passed by an island in the sea wherein was an angel, named Futrus, who was from the bearers (of the Throne). Allah had dispatched him for something and he had delayed it. So, He broke his wings and banished him to that island. He worshipped Allah therein for seven hundred years until al-Husayn b. `Ali (as) was born. The angel said to Jibra’il: O Jibra’il! Where do you intend (i.e. to go)? He said: Allah has bestowed a bounty on Muhammad. So, I have been sent to offer him congratulations from Allah and myself. He said: O Jibra’il! Carry me with you; perhaps Muhammad (s) will pray for me. He said: So, he carried him. He said: When Jibra’il entered the Prophet’s presence, he conveyed to him the congratulations from Allah and himself and informed him about the state of Futrus. The Prophet (s) said: Say to him: Rub (yourself) against this newborn and revert to your abode. He said: So Futrus rubbed (himself) against al-Husayn b. `Ali (as) and he ascended. He said: O Messenger of Allah! Your Nation will certainly kill him soon, and upon me is the remuneration for him. A visitor shall not visit him but that I will notify him and a Muslim shall not send his salutation upon him but that I will convey to him his salaam. A praying one shall not say a prayer (benediction of Allah) upon him but that I will convey to him his prayer. Then he ascended.