The narrative that our opponents insist on being true is that Imam al-Husayn (AS) set out for Kufa because the Shi’a invited him to rise against the government, but then betrayed him and slaughtered him upon his arrival. However, upon investigation into the sources we fail to find any evidence that any Shi’a wrote to Husayn (AS) and then fought against him. We challenge, in fact, any proponent of this narrative to name just a single Shi’a who did this. On the contrary, many o

Sunni scholarship has historically framed Karbala in a negative light interpreting it as an act of rebellion that brought harm to the Muslim ummah. Al-Husayn’s story in their eyes is an example of evil that occurs by standing against a ruler rather than an example of a stand against oppression and injustice. This is because for them, the political legitimacy of the ruling authority...

Now we turn to who truly betrayed al-Husayn. We have already refuted the false claim that the Shias were his betrayers. So then, who were they? Many of those who penned letters to Imam al-Husayn (AS) are counted by Ahl al-Sunnah themselves as reliable transmitters of hadith. How strange that their own narrators deceived Husayn, yet the blame is shifted onto the Shias! If treachery is to be condemned, then let it be condemned where it belongs.