Tarikh Islam

As one of the writers of ancient sources whose reports have been rewritten in many later works, Ibn Sa'd believes that trusting the people of Kufa was the reason for Imam Hussein's decision for not pledging allegiance, and that the Umayyad government did not have any conflict with the Imam. His hieratical arrangement of the reports of those who forbade Imam Hussein from the uprising also indicates the hastening of the Imam. In order to provide a historical analysis of this view, the method used in this research includes inducing the data from the ancient sources on the events of the Imam Hussein movement and comparing them with Ibn Sa'd's reports. The findings show that the Imam's decision for not pledging allegiance and leaving Medina and Mecca cannot be considered as being based on the support of the Kufis; and the innocence of the Umayyad rulers in this matter is a claim with lots of contradictory evidence. Moreover, Ibn Sa'd's approach to writing about the obstructers faces challenges such as hegemony in obstruction, the monopoly of unverified citations with data from other ancient sources, and the lack of making distinctions in the time of reports.