TIME OF ARRIVAL: On Thursday, on Muharram 2nd
Karbala means softness. It was a land full of thorns having soft soil and had a very short distance to Euphrates.
SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS:
Stopping the caravan from going further by the order of Hurr ibn Yazid al-Riyahi after receiving the letter of Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad; The Imam’s expression of his martyrdom and carrying his head on the spear to Zuhayr ibn al-Qayn