The same Maulavi has also narrated:

I was in Karbala Moalla twenty-three years ago and was involved in deep anxiety. My friends took me to the shrine of His Eminence, Hurr for sight-seeing and change of climate. When I reached inside the sanctuary, I was unable to stand; so I recited a brief Ziyarat in the seated position.

Meanwhile, I saw a Bedouin lady sitting near the sepulcher; she placed her finger into its circle and recited the following supplication:

"O remover of the trouble from the face of our Master, Husayn (‘a). Remove our trouble and remove the big trouble from us through the mediation of Husayn."

Then she removed her finger and then placed it in the next circle and recited the same supplication. In the same way, she continued the supplication. circling the sepulcher. By her fifth or sixth round. I also memorized those words and since I did not have the strength to begin from the top, I dragged myself till the sepulcher and putting my finger in the lower circle. recited the same supplication. then in the second circle and so on.

When I started reciting in the third circle, some warmth was perceived from the sepulcher in my fingers, which spread to each part of my body, just as medicine of injection does. I realized that I can get up. So I stood up and recited the supplication in the other circles also.

At that time my illness disappeared completely without leaving any trace.

'Since some people doubt the excellence of His Eminence, Hurr bin Yazid Riyahi and say that it was he that blocked the path of imam Husayn (‘a) and stopped him from returning to Medina, therefore, in order to remove their doubt and to make them aware of his true position, I would like to explain that Hurr was noble and a feudal lord of Kufa. He confronted Imam Husayn ('a) only to retain his position and he expected that the controversy would end amicably. Killing of Imam Husayn (‘a) and battle with him were things he had not even imagined and neither he had any faith in them.

He himself said: If I had any idea about the tragedy of Karbala and killing of the Imam, I would never have committed that mistake.

When on Day of Ashura, he came to know about the suggestions of the Imam, one of which was that he should be left alone so that he may leave Iraq with his remaining family members and Ibn Saad did not accept even one of those suggestions, His Eminence, Hurr asked him: Do you want to fight with Husayn? He replied: Yes, a battle, whose least result would be separation of heads and hands from the body.

His Eminence, Hurr asked: Will you not accept any of his suggestions, so that the matter may end peacefully? Umar Saad said: Ibn Ziyad is not agreeing. Hurr returned from there in anger and grief.

On the pretext of watering his horse, he came out from the army and moved slowly towards the camp of Imam Husayn ('a). Muhajir Aws asked: What is your intention? Do you want to launch an attack? Hurr offered no reply and he was trembling. Muhajir said: Hurr, your behavior has put us into doubt. By Allah, we never saw you in this condition before. If someone had asked me: Who is the bravest man in Kufa? I would not have named anyone other than you. Why are you trembling in this way? Hurr said: By God, I can see myself between Paradise and Hell. And by God, I will not choose anything other than Paradise even if I am cut up into pieces and burnt up.

After that he galloped to Imam Husayn (‘a), turned his shield upside down. placed his hands on his head and raising his head to the sky said: O Allah, I repent for my evil deed in Your court, because I caused distress to Your saint and the son of the daughter of Your Messenger.

He came to the Imam in that helplessness, saluted him, threw himself down and placed his head on Imam 's feet. Imam (‘a) said: Raise up your head, who are you? (it seems that due to shame, he had masked his face).

Hurr said: May my parents be sacrificed on you, I am Hurr Ibn Yazid, I am the one who stopped you from returning to Medina. I put you under pressure and compelled you to take this route. By God, I did not imagine that these people would refuse your wish and become prepared to slay you. Is my repentance not acceptable? Imam ('a) said: Indeed, Allah accepts repentance. He will accept your repentance also and forgive you.

After that he said: When I left Kufa, I heard a sound: O Hurr, glad tidings of Paradise to you. (Indeed this glad tiding was in accordance to his end). At that time, I said to myself: This cannot be a glad tiding, because I am going to confront the son of the Messenger. On such occasion, what is the meaning of glad tiding? Now I understood that the glad tiding was correct.

Imam ('a) said: The one who gave that glad tiding to you, was my brother, His Eminence, Khizr. His glad tiding proved true and you have attained goodly reward and a great success. After that he sought the Imam's permission and on reaching the field, after sending eighty persons to Hell, attained martyrdom. The companions brought his corpse and placed it near the Imam.

Imam was passing his hand over his blood smeared face and saying: "Congratulations, your mother did not make a mistake in naming you as 'Hurr' (free); by Allah, you are free in the world and the hereafter."

Then he sought repentance on his behalf. Some couplets of the Imam are also narrated in books of Karbala Tragedy, which he recited in the elegy (Marsiya) for Hurr. The aim of giving this information is that His Eminence, Hurr had repented for his mistake and the Imam also accepted his repentance. He performed Jihad before the Imam and helped him till he was martyred. Thus, he is an equal partner in the excellence of other martyrs. However, the other martyrs, in addition to martyrdom, were having special excellence on the basis of their knowledge and acts.

Therefore, we will say that His Eminence, Hurr also has a distinctive merit, which in the words of Shaykh Ja 'far Shustari, does not make him less than other martyrs, and it is the act of repentance. One who is the commander of the army, having a four thousand strong army under his command, having all the facilities of comfort and enjoyment, and who expected to reach higher ranks after the incident of Karbala, suddenly becomes imbued in the remembrance of God and should be so terrified of divine chastisement that onlookers should be amazed. After that he becomes so shameful of his sin that he veils his face and throws himself on the ground. Such repentance is highly valued by Almighty Allah, to such a limit that the servant becomes the favorite of his Lord.

There is no doubt that his repentance pleased the Imam and at that moment, it removed the grief of the Imam. From this statement the power of mediation of Hurr is proved. One who through his repentance, removed grief from the face of the Imam and made him pleased.

[We, at the same time should also know that if we repent for our sins and the same condition of repentance develops in us, indeed Imam Zaman ('a) would be pleased with us.]

Thus, it became clear that the reward of Ziyarat of the grave of His Eminence, Hurr and mediation through him in worldly and spiritual needs is of the same rank as that of other martyrs and His Eminence, Hurr or His Eminence, Abu ‘l-Fadhl Abbas ('a) or other martyrs can be addressed using the words of 'remover of grief'. Though it is appropriate in meaning, but since it is not narrated from any infallible, one should make an intention that it is not narrated through Shariah.

For further certainty regarding the rank of His Eminence, Hurr, you can refer to that which the late Nimatullah Jazaeri has mentioned in the book of Anwaarun Nomaniya.

When Shah Ismail Safavi occupied Baghdad and performed the Ziyarat of Karbala Moalla, he heard that some people were critical of Hurr. So he came to the grave personally and ordered them to open it. When they opened the grave, his body was fresh like the day he was martyred. They saw a piece of cloth tied to his head. The king was told that on Ashura Day, he had received a wound on his blessed head, due to which it was bleeding. Imam ('a) had tied this cloth and he was buried in the same condition.

The king ordered them to untie that cloth, so that he may take it as a souvenir, but when it was untied, bleeding started. Another cloth was tied on it, but it was of no use and the blood continued to flow. At last, when the cloth, which Imam had tied, was put back, it stopped bleeding.

The king became certain of the righteousness and greatness of His Eminence, Hurr and he constructed a dome over his grave and appointed a caretaker at the shrine. We should also know that the grave of His Eminence, Hurr is situated at a distance of one Farsakh from the place of his martyrdom. Two possibilities are mentioned for it; one is that his tribesmen took his body and buried it near their camp. Another is that he reached to that place while fighting and was martyred there. The first possibility is stronger.