THE STORY OF KARBALA - PART 5/01

ABDULLAH BIN WAHB AL-KALBI

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While Husayn was proceeding towards Koofa, several hundred people joined him at various places.

Some, because they knew who Husayn was, while others, just out of curiosity. It was this second group of people who were first to leave Husayn, when they saw that things were not, after all, that favourable for the grandson of the prophet of Islam.

However, all of these people were admittedly, Muslims. Among them was a young man named Wahab Ibn Abdullah Kalbi. Kalb was a very large tribe and many of them had stayed Christians, as the prophet had allowed after the event of Mubahala in the later part of the Madinan period.

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