Returning of Ahle Bait (God bless them) to Medinato-al-Nabi

After staying three days, Ahle Bait (God bless them) moved to Medina according to the order of Imam Sajjad (God bless him). When they reached near Medina, Ome Kulsume read some lengthy poems by looking at the walls of Medina. Here are some of those poems:

“Oh the city of our grandfather, the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), how can you accept us at all, because we have come with a sorrowful and saddening heart. Our men fell down on the soil of Karbala with cut off heads. They beheaded our children. They beheaded Hussein (God bless him) and didn’t respect our rights as the descendants of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). We left you along with all Ahle Bait (God bless them); but we have returned while we haven’t any men or children.[1]

It seems that when Imam Sajjad (God bless him) heard the moaning of his aunt, he thought that his Ahle Bait (God bless them) don’t like to enter in Medina without informing them. He ordered that all of them dismount and set up two tents; one of them for themselves that when the men of Medina come, enter in this tents and another for women of Ahle Bait (God bless them). The order has been done.

Then he said to Basheer-Ibn-Jozlam “God bless your father, he was a poet, can you do his work?” he answered “yes.” Then Imam Sajjad (God bless him) said “Go and inform the people of Medina from the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (God bless him) and the returning of Ahle Bait (God bless them).” Basheer entered in Medina and didn’t talk to anyone till he entered in mosque. Then he cried loudly and read these two lines of poems in the mosque of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him):

O the people of Medina! Medina isn’t your place anymore, they have killed Hussein (God bless him) and tears are flowing from my eyes abundantly. His body colored in Karbala with blood and they carried his holy head on the lances.” Then he shouted “Imam Sajjad (God bless him) has come to your land along with his aunts and sisters. They have placed behind the door of Medina.”

All of men and women ran to out of Medina while they were foot-bared and head-bared and were moaning and crying and wailing and were saying “O Mohammad (peace be upon him), O Hussein (God bless him).”A special condition had been created that no one had seen such scene in Medina before. The men of Medina came to the tent of Imam Sajjad (God bless him) and saw that he has a handkerchief in his hand and is wiping the tears of his eyes.

They saw that Imam Sajjad (God bless him) was crying so extremely that he can’t speak. On the other side women, especially sainthood Ome Salameh (God bless her) and sainthood Ome Baneen (God bless her) went to the tent of Ahle Bait’s (God bless them) women while they were moaning and crying and by looking sainthood Zaynab (God bless her) and sainthood Ome Kulsume (God bless her) they started to crying more severely. 

After that all men and women entered in Medina of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) along with Ahle Bait (God bless them) while they slashed their collars and put on mourning clothes and were wailing.[2] When sainthood Zaynab (God bless her) saw the tomb of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him), she came and held the ring of his holy shrine and said “O my ancestor! I have brought the news of my brother Hussein’s (God bless him) martyrdom for you.” 

Sainthood Ome Kulsume (God bless her) also talked to Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) like sainthood Zaynab (God bless her). Imam Sajjad (God bless him) put his face on the tomb of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and moaned and cried. People were flowing tears along with Ahle Bait (God bless them) and were saying “O Mohammad (peace be upon him)! O Ali (God bless him)! O Hassan (God bless him)! O Hussein (God bless him)![3] 

All of Medina cried continuously for Imam Hussein (God bless him) for fifteen days and Ahle Bait’s (God bless them) crying continued till their death.[4] Especially Imam Sajjad (God bless him) who cried and moaned for his father about forty years while he had fast in the days and used to pray in the nights.[5] 

One of his servants says “one day he went to desert and I went along with him. When I arrived I saw that he has put his face on a rough stone and while he genuflected for God, he was crying and praying.” I asked “O sir! Isn’t it the time to abate your grief?” he answered “woe to you! Jacob (God bless him) had twelve sons. God kept away one of them from his eye. He cried so much that his hairs got white and his back bent, his eyes lost its vision because the intensity of his crying while he knew that his son is alive and was hopeful to see him; but they beheaded my father and brothers and seventeen people of my Ahle Bait (God bless them) in front of my eye, they put their heads on the lances and fell their bodies on that desert. Now you tell me how I can abate my grief and finish my sadness?[6]