Returning of Zuljanah to the tents

Book:  A review on the story of Imam Hussein’s (God bless him) martyrdom

Writer:  Ayatullah Professor Hussein Ansarian

Abu Mokhnaf,[1] Mazandarany,[2] Behbahany[3] and Ghandoozy have narrated the returning of Zuljanah to the tents in this way that when Imam Hussein (God bless him) fell down from the saddle after the poisonous three-pronged arrow hit his heart and he martyred, his horse came neighing near the body of Imam (God bless him) and kissed his body by its lip and smelled his body while this animal was crying and its tear was pouring from its eyes like a mother who is grieving. Zuljanah colored its mane with Imam’s (God bless him) blood and came back to the tents while its saddle was upside down and neighing and was hitting its head against the earth and came around the tents.

By hearing the neigh of horse, sainthood Zaynab (God bless her) told to Sakina (God bless her) “I think your father comes back and he has brought water, go and welcome him;” but when Sakina (God bless her) came out and saw the horse, she shouted “O father! O Hussein (God bless him)…”[4] it has been come in Ziyarat-e-Nahiya which ascribes to Imam Mahdi (we praise God for his advent) “when the women and daughters saw the horse, with the condition that its saddle has been upside down, all of them disheveled their hairs under the veil of chastity and hit their faces and after those amount of honor, now they had to be captured by the enemies after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (God bless him), so they wailed and ran toward ghatlegah (a place where someone was killed).[5]

It has been narrated in Ershad from Sheikh Mofid that sainthood Zaynab (God bless her) shouted “Omar-Ibn-Saad! They are killing my Hussein (God bless him), are you watching?” Omar-Ibn-Saad didn’t answer. Imam Ali’s (God bless him) daughter turned to the corps of enemy and said “ouch to you! Are there any Muslim among you?” no one answered her again. Shemer called the corps and told them “May your mother be mournful for you! What are you doing? What are you waiting for? Then they rushed into the ditch of ghatlegah from every direction and attacked to the body of Imam Hussein (God bless him) by arrows, lances and swords.[6]