Editing Nafi b. Hilal b. Jamil (section)

==Joining Imam Hussain's caravan==
Imam Hussain’s caravan halted at [[Udhayb al-Hijanat]] that was the pasture of an-No’man bin al-Munthir’s horses. It was near the border between the Arabia, Iraq and Persia. Here, [[Thur-Rimma bin Adi]], Nafi’ bin Hilal, [[Majm’a bin Abdullah]] and [[Amr b. Khalid al-Saydawi]] met Imam Hussain. Thur-Rimma was an expert guide of the desert roads. Thur-Rimma recited a poem eulogizing Imam Hussain and his noble cause and cursing the [[Banu Umayya]] and their evil deeds. All the four men pledged their support to Imam Hussain<ref>Samāwī, ''Ibṣār al-ʿayn fī anṣār al-Ḥusayn'', p. 147.</ref> Imam Hussain asked them about the people of [[Kufa]], and they replied:

"the nobles of Kufa received bribes and are now against you. The rest of people are with you in their hearts, but against you with their swords." <ref>Ibn Nimā al-Ḥillī, ''Muthīr al-aḥzān'', p. 31.</ref>

When Nafi' b. Hilal wanted to go to the battle on the Day of [[Ashura]], his wife asked him not to do so. But he insisted that he had to help Imam Hussain. And when Imam learned about this, he told Nafi': "Your wife is worried, and I do not want you to lose one another when you are so young. You are free to take your wife with you!" 

Nafi' replied: "O' the son of the [[Prophet]]! If I leave you alone in such hardship and go through my pleasures, how can I face your grandfather, the Prophet, in the Day of Judgment?"<ref>Kāshifī, ''Rawḍat al-shuhadāʾ'', p. 298; Lisān al-Mulk Sipihr, ''Nāsikh al-tawārīkh'', vol. 2, p. 277.</ref>