“ Ḥosain is the hero of the Passion Play which is performed annually (e.g. at Kerbela) on the anniversary of his death by the Shi’ites of Persia and India, to whom from the earliest times the family of Ali are the only true descendants of Mahomet. The play lasts for several days and concludes with the carrying out of the coffins (tabūt) of the martyrs to an open place in the neighbourhood.
See Sir Wm. Muir, The Caliphate (1883) ; Sir Lewis Pelly, The Miracle Play of Hasan and Hosein (1879) . ”