When he wants to sacrifice his son, God’s messenger brings him the news declaring “We didn’t want you to kill your son, we wanted to see how well you obey us. Both of you showed that you are submitted to us (God).

Ali Akbar also said “ We are right, and God has selected our destination, if we are to face our destiny, we’ll do it”.

Imam Husayn got very happy hearing that and said, “Oh, my son, I can’t reward you the way you deserve it. I ask God, the almighty to reward you properly”.

Finally the caravan arrived at Neinava. Imam Husayn asked for the name of the place. “Agar” somebody answered. He asked if there was any other name for it. “Neinava, and Karbala”, they answered. Imam started weeping and while he was smelling the land he said “This is the very land in which I would be killed, Jibraeil, the messenger, had previously revealed the news to our prophet ”.

They set their camp there, Hur’s corps also settled near them. Suddenly an envoy coming form Kufa arrived at the place and went right away to Hur, disrespecting Imam Husayn. He had brought a letter from Ibn Ziyad. “After receiving my letter, make the situation harder for Husayn, force him to stay in a dry land with no shelter and water. My envoy is with you until you put my orders and commands into action.

Hur forced Imam Husayn not to leave the place. Imam wanted to be near a village, Qazeriya, or Neinave” but Hur didn’t let him do so. Hur wrote to Ubayd allah b. Ziyad and reported him what had happened. Ibn. Ziyad wrote a letter to Imam Husayn which was received by him while he was just settled in Karbala. The letter contained the following.

“Oh, Husayn, I am aware that you are in Karbala. Yazid has ordered me to force you either to join us and pay allegiance to him or kill you and send you to your God, this is the last occasion for you”.

Imam read the letter and threw it away and said “Those who made people satisfied and dissatisfied God will never meet prosperity”. The man asked for the answer and Imam rejected giving any answer to Ibn. Ziyad. The man came back to Ibn. Ziyad and he got very angry. He asked Umar. b. Saad, who was a superficial, shallow clergyman, a bought one, not a worrier, to be the leader of corps against Al. Husayn. The reason was the fact that Ibn. Ziyad wanted him to fool people and brainwash them and show that Husayn is an outlaw and against Islam. Since Umar was enjoying a famous Muslim family he could deceive people more easily in this regard. The assumption was that as Saad b. Vagas , his father,  was a very well-known man fighting for Islam and against its enemies, Umar, also will do the same, and those being attacked by Umar are not righteous Muslims. To stimulate and seduce Umar to do the action, Ibn. Ziyad promised him to be the governor of Rey after the dispute was settled down. He was most willing to have the position and gluttony of it made him much more seduced and influenced. He moved towards Karbala with 4000 soldiers and cavalry forces. A lot of groups of soldiers were sent to join him in the following days and it is reported that in Muharram the sixth, there were more than 30,000 soldiers under Umar’s command. Umar was trying to settle the dispute without starting any war and without bloodshed.

He wrote a letter to Ibn. Ziyad and said that Husayn has come here because people had asked him to come and now he is willing to leave this land”. Ibn. Ziyad answered, “Ask Husayn and his companions to give up, we will decide upon them”. Sending a new envoy he asked Umar b. Saad to deprive Husayn from water so that they could not drink any water. Umar sent Amr, b. Hujaj to capture the area near waterand abstained Husayn from water.

Habib. b. Mazaher, observing the great number of enemy forces came to Imam and said “There is a tribe near here that might help us.” Imam answered “Inform them of the fact that they would be killed here in this land”. Habib went to the tribe, called Banu-Asad, and gathered 90 people to help them. Umar b.Saad sent 400 soldier, to fight with them. They overcome Banu. Asad and closed the water on Husayn and his followers. Imam started praying and then went to the land behind the tents and the camp and digged the ground. A fountain appeared and they all drank water. Then he hid the fountain. The event was reported to Ibn. Ziyad. He got very angry and ordered Umar b. Saad to harden the situation for Imam Husayn. Imam Husayn sent somebody to Umar b. Saad and asked him to talk privately. During the night they talked a lot and al-Husayn advised him to realise the facts and forget about Yazid and try to save Islam. Umar came back to his army and wrote a letter to Ibn. Ziyad saying that, “The dispute is nearly ended up. Husayn has promised me to leave this land. You can send him to one of the remote lands of Islamic territory. It is much better for you and the people”. Ibn. Ziyad read the letter and started thinking deeply. He decided to solve the problem without bloodshed, but Shimr b. Zeljoushan forbade him from issuing any command in this regard “If Husayn leaves this land, you can never find him again, there are a lot Shi’ it people following him and you might not fight against him and topple him down. Ask them to give up, then you can either forgive or sentence them”. “He is trying to find an opening to escape, but the time is wax and wane”.

Ibn. Ziyad accepted Shimr’s idea and went angry with Umar. He wrote a letter to him and said “I’ve not sent you to defend Husayn. If he is willing to give up with no war, send him to me, if not, attack them, kill them and tear them limb from limb. Kill Husayn and put him under the hoof of your horses”. “If you obey my commands I’ll reward you, if you can’t do it submit the leadership of the army to Shimr”. He issued a confidential order to Shimr. The command was issuing that in case of any resistance Umar should be killed and the army should be ordered by Shimr b. Zeljoushan”.