Sunni Scholars and weeping on Imam Husain(AS).

Imam of Ahl’ul Sunnah Shaykh Ahmed Majd Shaybani used to participate in mourning for Imam Husayn (as) every Muharrum and would cry profusely on the Day of Ashura.

Al Muhadith Shah Abdul Haq Dehalwi in his authority work Akhbar al-Akhyar, page 184 whilst discussing the biography of the above mentioned Shaykh who was a descendant of one of the prominent Hanafi Imams Shaykh Shaybani wrote as follows:

“He was on the path of his predecessors with respect to the extreme love for the family of Prophet. It is stated that he didn’t wear new and fine clothes during the ten days of Muharrum and the first twelve days of Rabi al-Awal and slept on the floor during the nights of the said period. He would circumbulate around the shrines of Syeds and carry a water pot on his shoulder and distribute juice amongst the orphans and the poor living with the Syeds, on the 10th day of Ashura he would cry so much, as if the battle on the day of Ashura had occurred before his eyes”.

Ref : Akhbar al-Akhyar, page 184

Ibn Asakar narrates that a group of people were going in fight to city of Rome, and they saw in a church “the nation who martyred imam hussein, do they expect shafaat on the day of qayamat from his grand father?”

They asked: whom poetry is it? they were told that this was written 300 years before the arrival of their Holy Prophet(SAWA):

It is narrated that those people who killed Imam Hussein(AS), they spent their night drinking wine; and they had head of Imam Hussein(AS), so a pen made of iron appeared which wrote this on the wall

“the nation who martyred imam hussein, do they expect shafaat on the day of qayamat from his grand father?”

Al bidaya wa nihaya, ibn kather, researched by abdul mohsin turki, vol 11, page 573, first print, 1418.

Ibn kather writes

when the caravan of ahlubait entered madina, one of the women of banu abdul motallab was there with open hair, and had placed her hand on her head; she came weeping and was reciting these verses

“when holy prophet told you that you were the last nation, and what did you do to my ahlubait and progeny after me that some of them are prisoners and some killed, who are drenched with blood, when i did good to you, is it not my right that you be careful to my relatives, what do you say about this?”

Ref :Al bidaya wa nihaya, ibn kather, researched by abdul mohsin turki, vol 9, page 242, first print, 1418

Ibn kather says

There are many sad poetry written for holy imam, but the best of these is written by Hakim neshapuri who had inclination to shi’i thinkings

"o son of daughter of prophet! they brought your head drenched with blood, o son of daughter of prophet ! they killed holy prophet by killing you they killed you in state of thirst and they did not bother about what is revealed and explained in regards to your martyrdom they recited takbeer on your death though they killed takbeer by killing you”

Ref :Al bidaya wa nihaya, ibn kather, researched by abdul mohsin turki, vol 9, page 243, first print, 1418.

* OPINION OF IBN KAHTER ABOUT GRIEF FOR IMAM HUSAIN(AS)

He said:

It should be that every muslim should be sad for his martyrdom, no doubt he was syed of muslim, and amongst scholars and sahaba, and son of daughter of Holy prophet(SAWA), who was the greatest in His daughters, He was a worshipper, brave and open hearted”

Ref :Al bidaya wa nihaya, ibn kather, researched by abdul mohsin turki, vol 11, page 579, first print, 1418.