Habeeb bin Muzhaahir

It is related in Manhajul Maqal from Shaikh Kashshi, who relates through his chain of transmitters reaching Fazl bin Zubayr, who relates that one day Maytham was mounted on his horse when he passed by Habeeb bin Muzhaahir Asadi, who was near a group of the people of Bani Asad. They

started speak‌ing to one another in a manner that the necks of their horses had joined each other. Habeeb said, "Verily I see a an old bald man with a large belly who sells watermelon near Darur Rizq. He shall be hanged because of his love for the Prophet's Household (Ahlulbayt) (a.s) and his stomach shall be punctured on the gallows itself." Maytham said, "I too recognize a red-faced man who has two long tresses, he shall go to defend and aid the grandson of the Prophet and shall be killed, while his severed head will be paraded in Kufa." Saying this they both departed from one another. The people who were present there and heard their conversation said, "We have never seen greater liars than these two." Now they had not yet dispersed when Rushayd Hajari came to search them (Maytham and Habeeb) and asked the people their whereabouts. The people said that they had left and related to him their conversation. Rushayd said, "May Allah's blessings be upon Maytham, he forgot to say one sentence, that the one who gets the severed head to Kufa will get a reward of a hundred dirhams", saying this he left. When people heard him they said, "Verily he is a more greater liar than them." These people then say that after a lapse of some days we saw Maytham on the gallows near the house of Amr bin Hurays, and the severed head of Habeeb bin Muzhaahir being paraded in Kufa after he was martyred alongwith Imam Husain (a.s). Thus we witnessed with our own eyes whatever those men had predicted.

Maytham says that one day Imam Ali (a.s) called me and said,

"What will be your state at that time O Maytham, when the man, whose father is not known, but the Bani Umayyah have included him among them (viz. Ubaydullah bin Ziyad) will call you and order you to disassociate yourself from me?"

I said, "O Commander of the faithful! By Allah! I shall never disassociate myself from you." He said,

"In that case you shall be killed and hanged on the gallows."

I retorted, "By Allah! I shall forebear, while this is quite insignificant in the way of Allah." Imam said,

"O Maytham! You shall then be alongwith me in my status (in Paradise)."

Saleh bin Maytham relates that Abu Khalid Tammar has narrated to me, that one day I was with Maytham in the river of Euphrates on Friday, when a storm started. Maytham, who was sitting in a boat called Ziyan, came out and looking towards the storm said, "Tie the boats firmly, for I see a fearful storm ensuing, while Mu'awiyah has just died." When next Friday dawned, a messenger came from Syria. I met him and inquired about the reports there‌in. He said that, "The people therein are in a good state. Mu'awiyah has died and people are taking the oath of allegiance to Yazeed." I asked him as to which

day he died, to which he replied that it was on the last Friday.