Treachery of Rafidah forefathers towards al-Hussein (ra):
1. Rafidi Kadhim Hamad Al-Najafi said: “Many letters started coming to Imam Al-Hussein, and the last letter was from people of Kufa through Hani bin Hani Al-Sabe’3ee and Sa’ad bin Abdullah Al-Hanafi, so he opened and read it, there in it was written: In the name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful to Al-Hussein bin Ali from the shias of his father Amirul Muaminin, people are waiting for you and they see no leadership except yours so hasten, hasten.
Source – عاشوراء ص 85 تظلم الزهراء ص141
2. Rafidi Dr. Ahmed Al-Nafees: People of Kufa wrote to Al-Hussein that there is no leader over us, so come to us, may Allah gather us with you upon the truth….
Source – على خطى الحسين ص94
3. Rafidi ‘muhadhis’ Abbas Al-Qumi said: Letters started pouring from everywhere till its number reached 600 in a single day…untill the total no. of letters reached counted 12,000.
Source – منتهى الآمال 1/430
4. Rafidi Redha Hussein Sabah al-Husni said: “When Muslim set for Kufa, shia came to give their pledge till their number reached 18,000 and other narration through Al-Shabi their number reached 40,000.
Source – الشيعة وعاشوراء ص167
5. Rafidi sheikh Abbas Al-Qumi said: “Al-Mufid (top ranking rafidi scholar) and others said: People gave their pledge – i.e to Muslim bin Aqeel – till their numbers reached 18,000. So Muslim wrote letter to Al-Hussein about the pledge of 18,000 and asked him to come.
منتهى الآمال 1/436
6. Rafidi Mohd Kadhim al-Qazweni said: Ibn Ziyad entered Kufa, and send for the tribal leaders threatening them with amry from Al-Sham, and also enticing them, so they started deserting Muslim little by little until Muslim was left with none”
Source – ” فاجعة الطف ص7 وقريب منه ما في تظلم الزهراء ص149 وانظر سفير الحسين مسلم بن عقيل ص50 وما بعدها وانظر منه ص113
7. Rafidi Kadhim Al-Esani al-Najafi said: The army that come out to fight Imam Hussein (as) 300,000, all where from inhabitants of kufa, there was non amongst them Shami, nor Hijaazi, nor Hindi, nor Pakistani, nor Sudani, nor Eyptian, nor African but all where from inhabitants of Kufa gathered from different tribes.
Source – عاشوراء ص 89
8. Al-Hussein said in one of his invocations upon shia: “O Allah if you give them enjoyment for a while..then disintegrate them into groups…and divide their path…and never ever accept from them leadership…for verily they called us for help…then they transgress upon us and killed us.”
Source – كتاب الإرشـاد للمفيد صفحة241
9. Al-Hussein (ra) also said: O Allah judge between us and those who called upon us to give us victory but killed us.
Source – منتهى الآمال 1/535