Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2211
The Year 61 AH
وَقَدْ تَأَوَّلَ عَلَيْهِ مَنْ قَتَلَهُ أَنَّهُ جَاءَ لَيُفَرِّقَ كَلِمَةَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ بَعْدَ اجْتِمَاعِهَا، وَلِيَخْلَعَ مَنْ بَايَعَهُ النَّاسُ وَاجْتَمَعُوا عَلَيْهِ، وَقَدْ وَرَدَ فِي " صَحِيحِ مُسْلِمٍ " الْحَدِيثُ بِالزَّجْرِ عَنْ ذَلِكَ، وَالتَّحْذِيرِ مِنْهُ، وَالتَّوَعُّدِ عَلَيْهِ، وَبِتَقَدْيرِ أَنْ تَكُونَ طَائِفَةٌ مِنَ الْجَهَلَةِ قَدْ تَأَوَّلُوا عَلَيْهِ وَقَتَلُوهُ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُمْ قَتْلُهُ، بَلْ كَانَ يَجِبُ عَلَيْهِمْ إِجَابَتُهُ إِلَى مَا سَأَلَ مِنْ تِلْكَ الْخِصَالِ الثَّلَاثَةِ الْمُتَقَدِّمِ ذِكْرُهَا، فَإِذَا ذُمَّتْ طَائِفَةٌ مِنَ الْجَبَّارِينَ لَمْ تُذَمَّ الْأُمَّةُ بِكَمَالِهَا وَتُتَّهَمْ عَلَى نَبِيِّهَا ﷺ، فَلَيْسَ الْأَمْرُ كَمَا ذَهَبُوا إِلَيْهِ، وَلَا كَمَا سَلَكُوهُ، بَلْ أَكْثَرُ الْأُمَّةِ قَدْيمًا وَحَدِيثًا كَارِهٌ مَا وَقَعَ مِنْ قَتْلِهِ وَقَتْلِ أَصْحَابِهِ سِوَى شِرْذِمَةٍ قَلِيلَةٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكُوفَةِ، قَبَّحَهُمُ اللَّهُ، وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ كَانُوا قَدْ كَاتَبُوهُ لَيَتَوَصَّلُوا بِهِ إِلَى أَغْرَاضِهِمْ وَمَقَاصِدِهِمُ الْفَاسِدَةِ، فَلَمَّا عَلِمَ ذَلِكَ ابْنُ زِيَادٍ مِنْهُمْ بَلَّغَهُمْ مَا يُرِيدُونَ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا، وَأَخَذَهُمْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، وَحَمَلَهُمْ عَلَيْهِ بِالرَّغْبَةِ وَالرَّهْبَةِ، فَانْكَفُّوا عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ وَخَذَلُوهُ ثُمَّ قَتَلُوهُ، وَلَيْسَ كُلُّ ذَلِكَ الْجَيْشِ كَانَ رَاضِيًا بِمَا وَقَعَ مِنْ قَتْلِهِ، بَلْ وَلَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ رَضِيَ بِذَلِكَ - وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ - وَلَا كَرِهَهُ، وَالَّذِي يَكَادُ يَغْلِبُ عَلَى الظَّنِّ أَنَّ يَزِيدَ لَوْ قَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُقْتَلَ لَعَفَا عَنْهُ، كَمَا أَوْصَاهُ بِذَلِكَ أَبُوهُ، وَكَمَا صَرَّحَ هُوَ بِهِ مُخْبِرًا عَنْ نَفْسِهِ بِذَلِكَ. وَقَدْ لَعَنَ ابْنَ زِيَادٍ عَلَى فِعْلِهِ ذَلِكَ وَشَتَمَهُ فِيمَا يَظْهَرُ وَيَبْدُو، وَلَكِنْ لَمْ يَعْزِلْهُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ وَلَا عَاقَبَهُ وَلَا أَرْسَلَ يَعِيبُ عَلَيْهِ ذَلِكَ. وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ.
Translation
✧ Those who killed him interpreted it that he came to divide the word of the Muslims after it had been united, and to depose the one to whom the people had pledged allegiance and upon whom they had agreed. In Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim there is a ḥadīth prohibiting that, warning against it, and threatening it. And assuming that a group of ignorant people interpreted it against him and killed him, it was not for them to kill him. Rather, it was obligatory upon them to answer him to what he asked of those three aforementioned qualities. If a faction of tyrants is blamed, the entire ummah is not blamed, and it is not accused against its Prophet ﷺ. The matter is not as they went to, nor as they followed. Rather, most of the ummah, in the past and recently, detested what occurred of his killing and the killing of his companions, except a small rabble from the people of al-Kūfah—may God disfigure them. Most of them had written to him so as to attain through him their corrupt aims and objectives. When Ibn Ziyād learned that from them, he conveyed to them what they wanted of the world, and took them upon that, and incited them to it by desire and fear. So they withdrew from al-Ḥusayn and abandoned him, then killed him. Not all of that army was pleased with what occurred of his killing. Rather, even Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah was not pleased with that—and God knows best—nor did he hate it. What is almost predominant in assumption is that if Yazīd had been able to get him before he was killed, he would have pardoned him, as his father had enjoined that upon him, and as he himself stated, informing about himself of that. He cursed Ibn Ziyād for that action of his and reviled him in what appears and is evident, but he did not dismiss him for that, nor punish him, nor send to censure him for it. And God knows best.
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