‘Ali ibn Ḥusain (a.s.) said: "Allāh chose the land of Karbalā as a safe and blessed Ḥaram twenty-four thousand years before He created the land of the Ka’bah and chose it as a Ḥaram. Verily when Allāh, the Blessed and the Exalted, shall shake the earth and move it (on the Day of Judgment), Karbalā and (all of) its dust will ascend while it will be shining and pure. It will be placed in the best of the gardens and dwellings in Paradise. No one but the prophets and the messengers – or he said the Ulul ‘Azm from among the messengers – shall dwell in it. Verily it will shine among the gardens of Paradise like a shining star shines among the stars for the people of the earth. And its radiating light (will be so powerful that it) will blur the vision of all of the inhabitants of Paradise. The land of Karbalā shall cry out, “I am the sanctified, the blessed, and the purified land of Allāh which held (the body of) the Master of the Martyrs and the Master of the Youth of Paradise.”
The above Ḥadīth has also been narrated to me through the following chain: My father, ‘Ali ibn Ḥusain and all of my scholars, from ‘Ali ibn Ibrāhīm, from his father, from Muḥammad ibn ‘Ali, from Abī Sa’īd ‘Abbād Al-‘Usfuri, from someone, from Abil Jārūd, from ‘Ali ibn Ḥusain (a.s.).