Rubab bint Imra al-Qais

After some years of remaining childless, she bore Husayn two children, named Sakina and Abd-Allah, also known as Ali al-Asghar.

Rubab was present at Karbala in 680 CE and witnessed there the massacre of her husband and his supporters by the forces of the Umayyad caliph Yazid (r. 680–683).

Imra' came to Medina early during the caliphate of Umar (r. 634–644) and was given authority over the new converts to Islam from the Quda'a, a confederation of tribes that included the Banu Kalb.

When pressed by Yazid's agents to pledge his allegiance, Husayn first fled from his hometown of Medina to Mecca and later set off for Kufa in Iraq, accompanied by his family and a small group of supporters.

[7][1] The small caravan of Husayn was intercepted and massacred in Karbala, near Kufa, by the Umayyad forces who first surrounded them for some days and cut off their access to the nearby river Euphrates.

[1][6] He was at the time a young child,[1] likely an infant, as reported by the early historian Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (d. 967) in his biographical Maqatil al-Talibiyyin.

[6] In the accounts of the battle presented by al-Isfahani and by the Twelver jurist Ibn Tawus (d. 1266), Rubab was addressed by Husayn in his parting words for his family before he left for the battlefield one last time.