حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ هُوَ ابْنُ سَلَمَةَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَمَّارٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِيمَا يَرَى النَّائِمُ بِنِصْفِ النَّهَارِ وَهُوَ قَائِمٌ أَشْعَثَ أَغْبَرَ بِيَدِهِ قَارُورَةٌ فِيهَا دَمٌ فَقُلْتُ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَأُمِّي يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مَا هَذَا قَالَ هَذَا دَمُ الْحُسَيْنِ وَأَصْحَابِهِ لَمْ أَزَلْ أَلْتَقِطُهُ مُنْذُ الْيَوْمِ فَأَحْصَيْنَا ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ فَوَجَدُوهُ قُتِلَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ
مسند امام احمد بن حنبل · Hadith 2553
It was narrated that Ibn 'Abbas (RA) said: I saw the Prophet (PBUH) in a dream when l slept in the middle of the day. He was standing, looking dishevelled and dusty, with a bottle in his hand in which there was blood. I said: May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, O Messenger of Allah. What is this? He said: This is the blood of al- Husain and his companions. I have been collecting it all day. We worked out that day, and we found that it was the day on which he was killed.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020