Bits of history

In the year 122 AH Al-Imam Zaid ibn Ali, grandson of Al-Imam Al-Husein- Zaid the son of Ali the son of Husein the son of Ali (radi Allahu anhu) revolted against Umawi ruler Hishaam ibn Abdul Malik with 218 followers against 12,000 Umawi troops in Kufa. On the 3rd day he was killed and secretly buried. But the Authority came to know of the whereabouts and dug him out of his grave and then they put him on a cross for four years in public until his son Yahya began a revolt against the following ruler Waleed ibn Yazid. The authorities then brought down the exposed body, there was no clothes on his body and burnt it and threw the ashes into the Euphrates river. This is the time during Al-Imam Abu Hanifa.