Even then, when his father, Imam Husain (A.S) came to visit him, Imam Zainul Abidin (A.S) requested his father to allow him, too, to give his life fighting in the way of Allah. Imam Husain (A.S) told him that for Islam he had a more difficult "Jihad" to fight than the one he was wishing to do at that time, namely taking responSibility of the womenfolk from the family of the Prophet and staying with them to Kufa, and then to Damascus and then return with them to Medina.
Mtu huyu alirithiwa katika kazi hii na mwanawe aitwaye Ibrahim. Mwishilizo wa kimasaibu wa Bwana Zaid na mwanawe Yahya uliongezea hisia za watu dhidi ya ukoo wa Bani Umayyah na hisia hizi pia zilitumiwa na watu wa ukoo wa Bani Abbas na walizidisha umaarufu wao nchini Iraq kupitia kwa mtu mmoja aliyeitwa Abu Salmah.