 The peace and blessings of Allah be upon the servant of Imam Hussain, alaihi s-salam. Muslim Ibn Aqeel is the trustee of Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain, peace be upon him. Muslim Ibn Aqeel, Ibn Abu Ghalib is the cousin of Imam Hussain, peace be upon him. Ibn Aqeel has a very high status in the eyes of Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain, peace be upon him. Tonight we will end this program, this journey by speaking of Muslim Ibn Aqeel, peace be upon him. The companions of Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain, peace be upon him, may my soul be sacrificed for him. The companions, the Ansar of Hussain, peace be upon them, are companions like no other. I will narrate to you a tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Al-Hussain, al-Sajjad, peace be upon him. He says, my father Al-Hussain gathered his companions and began to speak to them. He said to them, I praise Allah, I praise Allah the most glorified be he. I thank you, I praise Allah, glorified be he and thank him for all happiness and all misery. He said, oh Allah, I commend you that you have honored us with prophethood. Meaning that you have honored Bani Hashim by giving them prophethood to Muhammad, peace be upon him. And taught us the Qur'an and made us learn jurists, you taught us the ilm. Ask for you my companions, now listen, ask for you my companions. I do not know anyone more loyal than you my companions. You see, Muslim Ibn Aqeel has this derajah because he is counted amongst the Ansar of Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain. He is counted amongst those companions whom there are none like in this world until the day of judgment there will be none like the Ansar of Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain, peace be upon them. Muslim Ibn Aqeel was given a title even greater than being the cousin of Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain. Muslim Ibn Aqeel was given the title of Safira al-Hussain, the one who represents Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain. The one who is the trustee of Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain. Ibn Abdullah trusted Muslim Ibn Aqeel with his life. The prophet, peace be upon him, prophesized the killing of Muslim Ibn Aqeel. He said, when Ali Ibn Abi Talib asked him, he said, O Rasulullah, do you love Aqeel? He said, I love Aqeel. And I love Aqeel for two reasons. I love Aqeel because of Abu Talib and I love Aqeel because his son. Muslim will be killed for your son. Muslim Ibn Aqeel will be killed for the cousin of Ibn Abdullah al-Hussain, peace be upon him. Muslim story is a story that we hear time and time again. It's a story that is very lengthy and long. And we will try our best to summarize what we can from this story. After the demise of Muawiyah, the Khufins sent letters towards Imam al-Hussain, peace be upon him. It is narrated that they sent 12,000 letters. These 12,000 letters were sent to Imam al-Hussain, peace be upon him, telling him, O Abu Abdullah, it is time for you to come to us, to Khufa. We are lost. We need an Imam. And we do not know what to do. The minions, Omar ibn Sa'ad and his gang, Omar ibn Sa'ad and his posse, they heard of this news. And they found out that the Wali over Khufa and Na'man did not have much power to get rid of Muslim. So they decided themselves to write to Yazid. They told Yazid, Yazid, the Khufins have wrote letters to Imam al-Hussain, peace be upon him, asking him to come to Khufa. What will you do now? He said, we will take Ubaidullah ibn Ziyad, who was the Wali of Basra, and Ubaidullah ibn Ziyad will take his brother, Uthman, as the Wali of Basra, and Ubaidullah will come to Khufa. This is the story behind in the background. Now what happens now? What happens is that Imam al-Hussain, peace be upon him, sent Muslim ibn Aqeen with his letter. He said, furthermore, after accepting the letters of the Khufins, he said, furthermore, for you, the last of your letters arrived to me. The last of your letters have arrived to me from Hani and Saeed, for I have understood your request from your letters and what you said. We have no Imam. We have no Imam in our city and we want you to come, for maybe Allah will unite us under your guidance, and you can guide us as well. I have sent to you my brother, listen, I have sent to you my brother, the son of my uncle and my trustee whom I trust from my pajni, Muslim ibn Aqeen, to report to you about your affairs. To report to you about the affairs of the people of Khufa. If this report agrees to what you have written, I will soon be with you in Khufa. You must be clear to the fact that the Imam is only one who follows the book of Allah, Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and serves Allah in all matters in affairs and justice, honesty and truth. This was the Rasala, the Kitab that Abi Abdullah al-Hussain, peace be upon him, sent with Muslim ibn Aqeen to go to Khufa. Muslim now arrives in Khufa. The Shi'a in Khufa, the Muslim in Khufa are happy for the coming of Muslim. It is narrated 30,000 to approximately 80,000 Khufans swore an allegiance to Imam al-Hussain, peace be upon him, through Muslim ibn Aqeen. Of these preachers and of these ulama and of these faqaa in Khufa, were Abbas ibn Abi Habib al-Shakiri and Habib ibn Muzaher al-Asdi. And the number adds up to 80,000. 30,000 to 80,000 people. Remember this number, this number is very important. 80 to 30,000 when he arrived in Khufa, swore an oath of allegiance to be with Imam al-Hussain. It continues. And like I said, the cohorts of Yazid did not like the fact that al-Naman was very weak as the Wali of Khufa. Ibn Ziyad began his way towards Khufa. Ibn Ziyad was very cunning. Ibn Ziyad, what did he do? He disguised himself in a green amama and he wore clothes, fully covering himself. And then he entered with a small group of people. He entered with a small group of people to try to deceive the Khufans. Everybody thought that it was Imam al-Hussain, alaihi salam. To the point where the Khufans would actually come and kiss his feet and kiss his forehead, he was very deceiving. And it was not until he got towards where? To the castle. To the castle behind Masjid al-Kufa, Qasr al-Imara. He also tricked Ibn Abashir. He forced his way inside and he said, Oh people, today I am your Wali over Khufa. He gained power and he began slowly to deceive the people of Khufa by money, by tricks, by sending the mothers and the daughters and the husbands and the brothers to whom he was going to revolt with Muslim. Why? To cause a problem. This was an issue. This was an issue because the Khufans' hearts weren't that very strong. To the point where it is narrated that he brought one of his slaves to act as a Shi'i to come to this Masjid over here and to listen to the ears. Who gave allegiance to Muslim? So they can quickly and deceivably become a spy inside. They gained the trust and Ibn Ziyad gave them 3,000 dirhams. He gave them 3,000 dirhams and he told them, Take this money with you. Take this money with you. And then if you see somebody in the Masjid, make sure you try to deceive him. Tell him, I really want to see Muslim Naqeel. I want to see Muslim. Tell him, in fact this man came, the slave of Ibn Ziyad and he found somebody in this Masjid, in Masjid Al-Kufa and he told them, I yearn to see Muslim Naqeel and I love the son of Fatima and I want to aid him after taking an oath of trust from him and a trustee of him. After taking an oath of trust from him and they began to trust him, what happened? They trusted him, they showed him Muslim and when they showed him Muslim right away Ibn Ziyad knew of the story of Hani Ibn A'ruwa and he knew that Hani Ibn A'ruwa was not sick as he claimed to be sick because Hani Ibn A'ruwa, when Muslim first came to Kufa he was in the house of Al-Muqtar and after that he took him to the house of Hani because the situation got very difficult in Kufa. Ibn Ziyad was very cunning, like I said he was very cunning to try to distract the people. Now, after this happened and the issue between Ibn Ziyad and the Kufan started losing trust back and forth Shuraik, as in man baniim shuraik his name is Shuraik Ibn A'uwar Al-Hamdani this guy, this man, was not a follower of Mu'awi or Ibn Ziyad and he wanted to kill Ibn Ziyad Ibn Ziyad also considered him a friend he liked him very much Shuraik was sick when he came from Basra and Shuraik stayed at the house of Humb, at the house of Hani you see, Shuraik had an idea he told Muslim, he told Muslim, oh Muslim when Ibn Ziyad comes I will signal for you I will signal for you that what? when I signal, come from the back take your sword and whip him on the back and kill him make sure you do that and that will be our chance to get rid of Ibn Ziyad when Hani heard this, Hani did not like what happened here and Hani said, I do not want blood to be shed in my house what happened after when Ibn Ziyad came to his house and he was sick in his bed, he signaled I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty more than once and Muslim stood in the back and did not go inside and strike him on, he did not kill him he did not kill him and we will know the reason after insha'Allah to the point where he repeated I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty Ibn Ziyad became very curious and confused as to why is he keep on calling thirsty, thirsty, thirsty and then of course Hani told him he's delirious, he's been sick leave him be now after Ibn Ziyad left Shuraik came, he came to Muslim he came to Muslim and he told him, ya Muslim why did you not kill him? we had a chance we had a chance to get rid of Ibn Ziyad Muslim said, O Shuraik for two reasons the first being that I detest that I do this in Hani's house because Hani himself detested it the second reason, a tradition a hadith that I heard from Rasulullah peace be upon him and his family he said, faith, iman has prevented treacherous assassination a believer does not assassinate now after this incident we move on, we skip some historical events and we go forward to the timetable you see Hani always used to come to Ibn Ziyad he wanted to show Ibn Ziyad that you know what I'm trying to fit in as well but since he began staying since Muslim began staying at his house there was a problem there was a problem and then Ibn Ziyad noticed that Hani is not home and since Ibn Ziyad had a spy inside the house and he knows Hani where he is and he knows where Muslim is Ibn Ziyad forcefully sent his minions and he told them, go get Hani for me they went to go get Hani Hani came to Ibn Ziyad and they asked him Ibn Ziyad said Hani, are you keeping Muslim at your house? he said no are you sure? he said no, I'm not keeping it in my house and I swear to you I'm not if you want to, go check then Hani Ibn Uruwa was taking to Ibn Ziyad and Ibn Ziyad asked him he told him, are you keeping Muslim in your house? he said no he said are you sure? Hani noticed a spy he's like, you know what? everything is done now there's no point in hiding it then he told him, give me Muslim right now that I will not give you Muslim no matter what happens and that is when he was imprisoned by Ibn Ziyad now this is where Muslim Aqeed hears of this news that Hani has been taken into prison what happens now? Muslim A.S. begins his revolt he said I will take those who gave me allegiance and let them all come to Masjid al-Kufr my brothers and sisters, behind me here in this land right here 30,000 people or more gathered who swore oath to protect Imam al-Hussain A.S they came here and they began to revolt against Ibn Ziyad Al-La'een A.S they began to revolt against Ibn Ziyad throwing rocks at him cursing him cursing his mother and insulting his mother until he began to do his cunning ways he began to trick them again the woman came to the husband saying what are you going to do when Ahl al-Sham is going to come to Kufr you're going to leave a salon same thing with the brothers same thing with the sisters Muslim A.S Muslim A.S prayed and Masjid al-Kufr, Jama'a together with over 30,000 people and by the time he finished his Salat there was 13 people left by the time Muslim A.S finished his Salat there were 13 people left by the time he exited from al-Kinda door there was nobody behind him he began walking the streets of Kufr alone the gharib nobody by him no house to go to he stood by a door of a lady her name is Tawa'a this lady came out of her door and she told him oh man what are you doing in this dark night why are you alone can I have some water please she gave him water he drank she came back and he was still there sitting on the doorsteps she told him it is unlawful for you to be here you cannot be here you're a man she told him he told her let me stay this night here in your house she said you have no family to go to you have no family to go to do you have a house to go to muslim is gharib here in Kufr he is gharib here in Kufr he told him I am muslim ibn Aqeel ibn Abi Talib I am the Safir of Imam al-Hussain alayhi salam she made him enter the house she put food for him he did not eat he spent the entire night praying and supplicating and dua and prayer her son her son saw that tawa'a was coming inside and out of the courtyard from the courtyard to the house he began getting suspicious and he said mother who you are keeping in there she did not answer him mother who you are keeping in there he repeated his question three times three times he repeated his question she said in there is muslim Aqeel and at that time ibn Ziyad al-La'een gave a reward for anybody who can find muslim this man went and told ibn Ziyad and 300 men and more came to the house of tawa'a it was a small alleyway he fought one after another only one can come at a time the muslim is so grand until they pushed him inside the house this is the son of Aqeel, the son of Abu Talib this is somebody who was raised in the house of Abu Talib who witnessed with him Ame Ali Aleyhi Salam and his courage of Ame Ali Aleyhi Salam he fought them and he fought them and he could not do anything about it the hadith says they went on top of the roof and they began throwing fire and rocks to burn the house down it is narrated that there is one man who cut off the lower lip of muslim another man came and hit him on the head and then they pushed him in the trench and he fell down he was taken to the presence of Ibn Ziyad it is narrated that before he entered the Qasr muslim saw some water by him he said, quench my thirst with this water muslim bin Amr somebody else muslim bin Amr listen to this person what he says he says, do you see oh muslim how cold the water is he says by Allah you will get a single drop of this water until you taste the hameem the fires of hell muslim said, who unto you who are you? he tells him, I am the one that knows the truth yet denies it I am muslim ibn Amr al-Bahuli isla'een muslim tells him may your mother have never given you birth what disgust is this you have your heart feels no remorse oh son oh son of Ababahuli are more suitable to drink you are more suitable to drink from the hameem than me muslim entered the Qasr of Ibn Ziyad and Ibn Ziyad began insulting him and insulting Imam al-Hussain he began insulting him and insulting Imam al-Hussain he told him, take him on top of the Qasr hit him and cut off his head throw his body on the floor muslim told him, wait I have a wasliya Imam al-Nasa'id was sitting in the gathering Imam al-Nasa'id has a far relationship with muslim al-Aqeel he is a relative but from very far away a far cousin, we can say he told him I have loans in al-Kufa that I took when I came here here is my shield and my sword go sell them I have 700 dirhams that need to be paid off O Omar al-Nasa'id pay these off for me and send the letter to Imam al-Hussain telling him, the people of Kufa the people of Kufa do not want you and go back and from my body when I die, make sure somebody shrouds it Omar al-Nasa'id went to where he went Ibn Ziyad he said, ask for the first request go ahead and do it ask for the second request if Hussain doesn't answer us, he won't answer him let him come and ask for the third request we deal with the bari, not you Ibn Ziyad asked the same person who hit muslim on the head he told him, take him on the top of the Qasam take him and make sure he hit him on the head muslim was taking to the top of Qasam he was given water to drink every time he would lift the parts of water to drink it would bleed because they cut off his lip he lifted up again it would bleed in one hadith it says that his entire lip fell in the pot he was taken on the top of the Qasam Bukair al-La'een hit muslim with his sword on the neck once his head did not cut off he took a gun he cut off his head and he threw him down the castle here in this masjid behind the Qasam when Bukair was asked what was the how was muslim when he was going towards death he told them all he was doing was supplicating and praying he was killed on the 8th of the hadith on the 8th of the hadith on the 8th of the hadith and by the shrine of muslim alayhi as-salam was the shrine of Hanib N'arwa Hanib N'arwa together here subhanallah they were killed in the same place and here they are now buried together side by side companions even in death companions even in their gravesite I forgot to mention that's what Hanib N'arwa was taking to the castle of Ibn Ziyad there's an important part to have to mention I had to mention this part to show you how disgusting Hanib N'Ziyad was I had to show you how cunning and evil this man was I didn't mention that Hanib was taking to Ibn Ziyad's castle and he was taking to Ibn Ziyad's castle and when he did not want to give views about muslim N'Aqid buried where muslim N'Aqid sorry was staying Ibn Ziyad but it was so evil Hanib is narrated to be in his high 80s and just about 90 years old old man, old man very old man used to have a walking stick and it was narrated that Ibn Ziyad took this walking stick from him and began to beat him and beat him on the face and tell the skin from his forehead began to peel off he says that even the blood covered his beard his white beard changed color the blood on his face and till the stick broke Ibn Ziyad beat him now you see this whole time when muslim was killed when muslim was martyred Hanib was in jail after the killing of muslim not by Allah Muhammad Ibn Ash'az came to Ibn Ziyad and told him Ibn Ziyad you know about muslim you know about Hanib be careful he said you know what let's just tell him that he is okay because Ibn Ziyad knows that if the tribe finds out that he is dead right now it would cause a problem hence they sent Shura'ih inside to see Hanib and Shura'ih came to the tribesman and told them your Hanib is okay he is not dead the news that you guys received is false after that they sent for Hanib to be taken outside in the slaughter house where they sell meats in the public of Kufa the city of Kufa outside the Masjid al-Kufa where they sell meats where they slaughter meats Hanib was sent out there he was blindfolded he began to complain where is my tribesman where is my family and after that Hanib was also killed he was shot in the bazaar of Kufa where they slaughtered meats in Kufa his head was cut off and mind you both Muslim and Hanib Muslim both of them were taken after with no head and dragged in the streets of Kufa we see today how savage terrorists attacked behead people and treat them in this animalistic way these people only learn from their forefathers Ibn Ziyad is one of their forefathers because look look at the tyranny the tyranny is that after the head was cut off for proof Ibn Ziyad had to send his head to Yazid two heads of Muslim and the head of Hanib Yazid Ibn Muawiyah as proof that look I have taken care of Muslim I have taken care of Hanib no need to worry and that my brothers and sisters is the story of Muslim and the story of Hanib one helped the other Hanib helped Imam Al-Hussain and Muslim helped Imam Al-Hussain to be able to sacrifice yourself to serve the religion to be able to sacrifice yourself to serve the son of the daughter of the messenger of Allah is high reward and high status and look at the reward now by Allah look at the reward now how many millions of visitors how many millions of visitors go Imam Al-Hussain how many millions of visitors come and visit how many millions of visitors come and visit Muslim look at the reward and by Allah the reward in paradise is even higher their reward in paradise is even higher because they their blood seeped only to serve by Allah