The story of Sakinah is one of the many emotional stories that Shī‘ī Muslims tell about Husayn and his martyrdom at the hands of Yazid's troops. The Battle of Karbala and the subsequent events at the court of Yazid are explained and mourned annually during the commemoration of the 10th of Muharram, also known as ‘Âshûrá’. According to these religious narrations, Sakinah suffered from fatigue and thirst on the forced march to Damascus, and later from cold and starvation in Yazid's dungeon.
She accompanied her father when he traveled from Mecca to Kufah in Iraq. On the 2nd of Muharram, 61 AH, Husain and 72 of his family members and companions were forced to camp in the plains of Karbala by Yazid's army of 30,000 men. Yazid ibn Muawiyyah was the practical Caliph who desired religious authority by obtaining the allegiance of Husain, but the Imam would not give up his principles. On the 10th of Muharram, the Imam's household was attacked, a number of his companions were killed, and the survivors were made captives. The survivors included the Imam's sisters, wives, and daughters, including Sakinah, relatives of companions of the Imam, and his son, Ali Zaynul-Abidin, who did not participate in the battle, due to an illness. Sakinah, as with others, had been grieved over the killings. They had also suffered from thirst. The survivors were marched by Yazid's army from Karbala to Kufah, where Sakinah received water from a sympathetic woman, and then to Damascus in Shaam. There was a lack of pity from the captors' part during the journey. Even at these times of hardship and misery, Ruqayyah was sympathetic to others, such as her mother, whom she consoled her mother on the death of Ali al-Asghar.
Death and aftermath
According to Shia Islamic narrations that are commemorated every year on the occasion of Ashura, after enduring the Battle of Karbala and the torturous journey to Damascus that followed it, Sukaynah died at the age of four weeping over her father's head in Yazid palace hall where prisoner were initially stayed and, her body was originally buried at nearby site. Centuries later, an ʿĀlim had a dream in which Sakinah asked him to move her body from the grave to another site, due to water pouring into her grave. He and some people opened the grave, and saw that ground water was indeed entering the grave, besides that her body was still intact. Sakinah's body was moved from its original burial place, the dungeon, and reburied where her Mosque is now located. The mosque was built around the mausoleum in 1985 and exhibits a modern version of Iranian architecture, with substantial amount of mirror and gold work. There is a small mosque area adjoining the shrine room, along with a small courtyard in front. This mosque is found a short distance from the Umayyad Mosque and the Al-Hamidiyah Souq in central Damascus.
Family tree
Fatimah as-Sughra
It is believed that there were two daughters of Husayn who had the name 'Fatimah': Fatimah al-Kubra and was 11 years old during the Battle of Karbala, and Fatimah as-Sughra. As-Sughra was a daughter of Umm Ishaq bint Talhah. It is believed that she was ill and left behind at Medinah, when her father took part in the Battle of Karbala. Eventually, she accompanied her aunt Zainab to Shaam. She is believed to have died there, with her grave being in Damascus.
Fatimah al-Kubra
According to the Shia, Husayn married Fatimah al-Kubra to his brother Hasan's son Abdullah at Karbala. Fatimah died in the year 736 ACE. Their Children Include: -AlHasan Bin Hasan as. -Abdullah Bin Hasan as Alias Abdullah Al Mahez. The Progeny of Abdullah Al Mahez are in Multitude of numbers which Include: Sharif Of Mecca, Idris of Morocco, Ghaus e Azam Sheikh As Sayyid Abdul Qadir Al Jillani Al Hasni wal Hussaini. -Idrees Bin Hasan as. As such, she appears not only to have been a contemporary of her father and brother Ali Zaynal-Abidin, but also the later Shi'ite ImamsMuhammad al-Baqir and Ja'far al-Sadiq.
