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According to Islamic traditions, Husayn is mentioned in the Torah as "Shubayr" and in the Gospels as "Tab". Aaron, Moses' brother, gave the same names to his sons after learning the names God had chosen for Ali's children. [21] Husayn was brought up in the household of Muhammad at first. [11]
The battle was between Yazid's army from Syria reinforced by troops from Kufa, and the caravan of families and companions of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. It is claimed that 72 males (including Husayn's 6 months old son) of Husayn's companions were killed by the forces of Yazid I. [ 3 ]
'tranquility, peace') was the epithet given to her by her mother, [1] [2] while her name is variously given in the sources as Āmina (Arabic: آمنة) or Amīna (Arabic: اَمینة) or Umayma (Arabic: اُمیمة). The last one is less likely, however. [2] Her father was Husayn ibn Ali (d.
To overthrow the Umayyads, the Abbasids had rallied the support of the Shia in the name of the Ahl al-Bayt, that is, the family of Muhammad. But many Shias were disillusioned when the Abbasid al-Saffah (r. 750–754) declared himself caliph, as they had hoped for an Alid leader instead. [13]
An act of commemoration for Ali al-Asghar. Abd-Allah was the youngest son of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia Imam. [1] His mother Rubab was the first wife of Husayn and the daughter of Imra' al-Qais ibn Adi, a chief of the Banu Kalb tribe. [2]
After some years of remaining childless, she bore Husayn two children, named Sakina and Abd-Allah, also known as Ali al-Asghar. Rubab was present at Karbala in 680 CE and witnessed there the massacre of her husband and his supporters by the forces of the Umayyad caliph Yazid (r. 680–683). Also killed there was Ali al-Asghar, who was at the ...
The earliest account of the death in captivity of a daughter of Husayn appears in Kamel al-bahai by Imad al-Din al-Tabari without giving her name. [1] [2] He writes that the women had hidden the death of Husayn from his young children until they were brought to the palace of Yazid. There a daughter of Husayn, aged four, woke up crying one night ...
Al-Sajjad was the great-grandson of Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the grandson of the first Shia imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib, by the latter's marriage with Muhammad's daughter, Fatima. [4] After his grandfather was assassinated in 661, al-Sajjad was raised by his uncle Hasan and his father, Husayn, the second and third Shia imams, respectively. [1]