Azdi relates from Ata‘a bin Saeb, who relates from Abdul Jabbar bin Wael, from his brother Masrooq bin Wael that I was along with the army, who had advanced towards Imam Husayn (a.s.). I requested to be in the forefront so as to get the head of Imam and thus earn honor in the presence of Ubaydullah bin Ziyad. When we reached him, a person from amongst us named Ibn Hawzah advanced further and said, “Is Husayn amongst you”? But Imam did not answer him.
When he repeated it thrice, Imam said,
“Yes, here is Husayn, what do you desire”?
He said, “O Husayn! Take glad tidings of (hell) fire” (Allah’s refuge). Imam said,
“Verily you speak a lie, I am proceeding towards the forgiving Lord and an intercessor, who is obeyed. Who are you”?
He replied that he was the son of Hawzah. The narrator says that then Imam lifted his hands towards the heavens such high, that we could see the whiteness of his underarms from below his clothes, and said,
“O Lord! Hasten him towards the fire (of hell).”
Hearing this Ibn Hawzah was enraged and desired to gallop his horse towards Imam, but there was a moat in between them. Suddenly his foot got entangled in the stirrup and the horse dragged him until he fell off. Then his leg, peduncle and thigh separated, while the other half of his body lay suspended on the stirrup. Seeing this Masrooq returned and hid behind the horsemen. The narrator further says that I questioned him (Masrooq) regarding his return and he replied that, “I have seen such (wonders) from this family that I shall never ever fight them.”
Reference : Nafasul Mahmoom – Shaikh abbas Qummi (r.a.)