Note 43 — Chapter III
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For an account of this tragedy, see Gibbon, vol. vi. p. 279, and Short History of the Saracens, pp. 83-87. Hussain was married to a daughter of Yezdjard the last King of Persia. The life of the lad, saved by the indomitable Arab courage of Zainab, the sister of Hussain, gave to Islâm its nobility, for in him was united the blood of the Prophet with that of the Sassanide monarchs of Persia.