When Ummul Banin (s.a.) got the news that all her four sons were
martyred in Kerbala with Imam Husain (a.s.), she began to mourn for
them. She used to go to Jannatul Baqi or sit on the road to Iraq and
remember and mourn her sons. Other women gathered around her
seeing her wail so mournfully.
Marwan bin Hakam, governor of Medina and the bitterest enemy of Ahle
Bayt also used to cry hearing the elegy of lady whenever he passed by the
Baqi Cemetery. One of her elegies is as follows:
“O ladies! Do not call me Ummul Banin now. A mother of sons is
called Ummul Banin, mother of brave sons. When you address me
by this name, I remember my brave sons and my heart shatters. Yes,
I was indeed called Ummul Banin once, but now I no more remain
the ‘mother of sons’.
In a special elegy for His Eminence, Abbas (a.s.), she says:
“O looking eye that was watching the events of Kerbala! Narrate
to me the scene when my brave Abbas and before him, his (three)
lion-hearted sons had attacked the coward army. Is it true that after
the hands of my son were cut off, an oppressor hit him on his head
with an iron mace?
“Oh! My brave lion Abbas was hit with a mace on his head.
“O my Abbas! O my dearest one! I know that if your hands were all
right the cowardly enemy would not have remained in front of you.
The impure enemy dared to do this only because your hands were
cut off.”
Muntahaiul Amaal, Vol. 1, Pg. 689