Words of the Commander of the Believers and Imam Ĥusain عليه السلام about His Martyrdom

5. My father and ‘Ali ibn Ḥusain (ibn Bābawayh) both narrated to me from Sa’d (ibn ‘Abdillāh), from Muḥammad ibn Ḥusain, from Safwān ibn Yaḥyā, from Dāwūd ibn Farqad, who said: Abū ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq عليه السلام) said: ‘Abdullāh ibn Zubayr told Ḥusain عليه السلام to come to Makkah and (seek refuge) in the Ḥaram but Ḥusain عليه السلام said, “We will not breach its sanctity (by remaining in the Ḥaram) and we will not allow its sanctity to be breached (by) being killed in it. Verily I prefer to be killed on a mound with red dust than being killed in the Ḥaram.”