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On the ninth of Muharram a final ultimatum was delivered to Husayn from Umar bin S'ad. Husayn asked for a day's respite, which was granted after some debate among Umar's high command.
The decisive battle finally took place on the 10th of Muharram, the day of Ashoora, in which each and every male member in Husayn's small entourage was martyred fighting in the battlefield or protecting others.
We will give details of some of those individual battles in the coming days, insyallah.
The first man who made a formal visitation to Karbala to pay homage to Husayn and his companions was the respected Companion of the Prophet (pbh), Jabir Ibn Abdullah Ansari, within a few months of the occurrence of the tragedy of karbala.
The first confrontation occurred when Umar asked Husayn to move his camps away from water. Abbas, Husayn's half-brother, tried to put up a resistance, considering that they needed water as much as the Umayyad troops, and they arrived there first. Also, in Husayn's camp were women and children. Husayn restrained Abbas and had to move his camp several miles away from water.
On the seventh day of Muharram, the banks of Euphrates and those of all subsidiary canals were taken over by the Umayyad troops and water was denied to Husayn and his camp. Husayn's companions showed great restraint as well as courage. A number of sorties were made during the nights which followed, for acquiring water. Some were successful and some were not. Security was being tightened every minute, so that no water could reach Husayn's camp.
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The first thing Umar bin S'ad did was to start negotiations with Husayn for his surrender to Yazeed's will. Yazeed on the other hand, was getting impatient with this delay. He kept pressuring Ibn Ziyad, his governor in Koofa to bring the matter to a quick conclusion. Ibn Ziyad was so full of hatred against the family of the Prophet (pbh) that he did not really need any prodding to do the job.
He sent another commander named Shameer bin Zil-Jawshan with the orders that if Umar feels any res-traint in dealing with Husayn, Shameer should depose him and take charge to end the matter quickly and effectively. Umar got the message. He did not want to lose his command neither the accompanying awards.
Shameer joined Umar's 4000 well armed cavalrymen with his brigade of 4000-6000 infantry. In the next two days, several other commanders sent from Koofa by Ibn Ziyad as well as those sent directly by Yazeed from Syria, joined the Umayyad contingent at Karbala. Ibn Ziyad made a general announcement in Koofa that all able-bodied men should come out and join the army of the 'Khaleefa of Muslims', Yazeed, to fight the 'rebel', Husayn.
Anyone staying behind would be arrested and executed. Many of them were so poor that they did not have any arms of their own so they just collected rocks and carried bags full to Karbala with them to fight with. Among the famous names were: Qays Ibn Ash'ath with a brigade of fully armed cavalry (6000 riders), we have already mentioned Hurr Ibn Yazeed Riyahee with another cavalry brigade and Ibn Numayr with 2000 archers. From Syria the most famous fighter was Azraq Shami and his four sons.
The banks of the river Euphrates were guarded by a huge contingent under the command of Amr Ibn Hajjaj; in which there were hundreds of cavalrymen, archers, swordsmen and lancers. All of them were renowned soldiers. The total Umayyad presence at Karbala is reported to be at least 30,000 and may have been as much as 120,000.
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