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Darghama ibn Malik al-Taghlibi, a devotee of Muslim ibn Aqeel in Kufa, [citation needed] who joined Husayn after Muslim's death, and was killed along with him. Aaiz ibn Majma al Aazi, one of the six who along with Hur ibn Yazid e Riyahi had joined Husayn. Abis ibn Abi Shabib al-Shakiri, helped Muslim ibn Aqeel in Kufa, and was killed at Karbala.
Battle ensued on 10 October during which Husayn was killed along with most of his relatives and companions, while his surviving family members were taken prisoner. The battle was the start of the Second Fitna , during which the Iraqis organized two separate campaigns to avenge the death of Husayn; the first one by the Tawwabin and the other one ...
The older one, Ali al-Sajjad who became the fourth Shia Imam later, was 23 years old when his younger brother (Ali al-Akbar) was killed in the Battle of Karbala at the age of 19. Ali al-Akbar was born from Layla , the daughter of Abi Murrah al-Thaqafi, who was an ally of the Umayyads.
Abū al-Sābigha Shamir ibn Dhī al-Jawshan (Arabic: أبو السابغة شمر بن ذي الجوشن), often known as Shamir or Shimar, was an Arab military commander from Kufa who killed Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in 680.
Maqtal al-Husayn (Arabic: مقتل الحسين, lit. 'The Murder Place of Husayn') is the title of various books written by different authors throughout the centuries which narrate the story of the battle of Karbala and the death of Husayn ibn Ali.
Abd-Allah was also killed during the battle by an arrow, [2] [5] though the manner of his death is uncertain. The Twelver theologian al-Mufid (d. 1022) writes in his biographical Kitab al-Irshad that Abd-Allah was killed in his father's arms by an arrow, as Husayn was preparing to leave his family and enter the battlefield.
Husayn was killed, alongside most of his male relatives and his small retinue, on 10 Muharram 61 AH (10 October 680 CE) in the Battle of Karbala against the much larger army of the Umayyad caliph Yazid ibn Mu'awiya (r. 680–683), having been surrounded for some days and deprived of the drinking water of the nearby Euphrates river.
He was one of the leaders of the troops who killed Husayn ibn Ali in the Battle of Karbala in 680, the first major battle of the Second Islamic Civil War (Second Fitna). His wife was the sister to Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, who ruled Iraq from 685 to 687, during the Second Fitna. He had five sons, of which Hafs ibn Umar ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas was ...