Story of Husayn ibn Ali (Part 1)

 

                               

Husayn ibn Ali

Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (Arabic: ٱلْحُسَيْن ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن أَبِي طَالِب‎, romanized: Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlīy ibn ʾAbī Ṭālib‎; 10 January 626 – 10 October 680) was a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a child of Ali ibn Abi Talib (the fourth caliph of Sunni Muslims and the primary imam of Shia Muslims) and Muhammad's little girl Fatimah.[9] He is a significant figure in Islam as he was an individual from the Household of Muhammad (Ahl al-Bayt) and the People of the Cloak (Ahl al-Kisā'), just as the third Shia Imam. He is given the title Aba Abdullah, which means father of Abdullah. 

Before his demise, the Umayyad ruler Mu'awiya designated his child Yazid as his replacement, in opposition to the Hasan-Muawiya treaty.[10] When Muawiya kicked the bucket in 680, Yazid requested that Husayn promise faithfulness to him. Husayn would not vow devotion to Yazid, despite the fact that it implied forfeiting his life. As a result, he left Medina, his old neighborhood, to take shelter in Mecca in AH 60 (679 AD).[10][11] There, individuals of Kufa sent letters to him, asking his assistance and promising their devotion to him. So he went towards Kufa alongside a little train of his family, family members and followers,[10] subsequent to getting some great indications,[12] however close to Karbala his parade was captured by Yazid's military. He was killed and afterward decapitated in the Battle of Karbala on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram 61 AH) by Yazid, alongside the majority of his family and buddies, including Husayn's half year old child, Ali al-Asghar, with the ladies and kids taken as prisoners.[10][13] Anger at Husayn's passing was transformed into an energizing cry that subverted the Umayyad caliphate's authenticity, and eventually its defeat by the Abbasid Revolution.[14][15] 

The yearly remembrance of Husayn and his kids, family and buddies happens during Muharram, the principal month of the Islamic schedule, and the day he was martyred is known as Ashura (the 10th day of Muharram, a day of grieving for Shi'i Muslims). Husayn's activities at Karbala filled later Shi'a movements,[15] and his passing was definitive in molding Islamic and Shi'a history. The circumstance of Husayn's life and passing were pivotal as they were in one of the most difficult times of the seventh century. During this time, Umayyad abuse was widespread, and the stand that Husayn and his devotees took turned into an image of obstruction moving future uprisings against oppressors and foul play. From the beginning of time, numerous remarkable characters, like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, have refered to Husayn's remain against mistreatment to act as an illustration for their own battles against injustice.[16]

Family

Husayn's maternal grandma was Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, and his fatherly grandparents were Abu Talib and Fatimah bint Asad. Hasan and Husayn were viewed by Muhammad as his own children because of his affection for themselves and as they were the children of his little girl Fatima. He said "Each mother's kids are related with their dad aside from the offspring of Fatimah for I am their dad and heredity." Thus, the relatives of Fatimah are the relatives of Muhammad, and are important for his family.[20][21] 

Husayn had a few kids: 

 1) Ali Zayn al-'Ābidīn (Mother: Shahrbanu) 

 2) Sakinah (Mother: Shahrbanu) 

 3) Ali al-Akbar (Mother: Layla) 

 4) Fatimah as-Sughra (Mother: Layla) 

 5) Sukaynah (Mother: Rubab) 

 6) Ali al-Asghar (Mother: Rubab)[8]

Birth and early life

Husayn was brought into the world on 10 January 626 (3 Sha'ban AH 4, or AH 3 as per Shi'i tradition[22]).[6] Husayn and his sibling Hasan were apparently the last male relatives of Muhammad living during his lifetime and staying after his passing. There are many records of his adoration for them which allude to them together.[10][note 1] Muhammad is accounted for to have said that "He who loves me and loves these two, their dad and their mom, will be with me at my place on the Day of Resurrection."[23] and that "Husayn is of me and I am of him. Allah adores the people who love Husayn. Husayn is a grandson among grandsons."[23] 

Hussein went through the initial seven years of his existence with his granddad, Muhammad.[24] A portrayal announces Hasan and Husayn as the "Experts of the Youth of Paradise"; this has been especially significant for the Shi'a who have utilized it on the side of the right of Muhammad's relatives to succeed him. The Shi'a keep up with that the reliability of the Imam is an essential principle in the Imamate. "The scholars have characterized the Imamate, saying: "Definitely the Imamate is an elegance from Allah, Who awards it to the absolute best and best of His workers to Him"[25] Other customs record Muhammad with his grandsons on his knees, on his shoulders, and surprisingly on his back when they were youthful during his petition right now of prostrating himself.[26] 

As per Wilferd Madelung, Muhammad adored them and proclaimed them as individuals of his Bayt very frequently.[27] He has additionally said: "Each mother's youngsters are related with their dad aside from the offspring of Fatima for I am their dad and ancestry." Thus, the relatives of Fatimah were relatives of Muhammad, and part of his Bayt.

Incident of the Mubahalah

In the Hijri year 10 (631/32 AD) a Christian agent from Najran (presently in southern Saudi Arabia) came to Muhammad to contend which of the two gatherings failed in its regulation concerning Jesus (ʿīsā). In the wake of comparing Jesus' inexplicable birth to Adam's (ʾādam) creation,[note 2]—who was brought into the world to neither a mother nor a dad — and when the Christians didn't acknowledge the Islamic regulation with regards to Jesus, Muhammad was told to call them to Mubahalah where each party ought to request that God annihilate the bogus party and their families.[28][29] "On the off chance that anybody debate with you in this matter [concerning Jesus] after the information which has come to you, say: Come let us call our children and your children, our ladies and your ladies, ourselves and yourselves, then, at that point let us make a solemn vow and spot the scourge of God on the people who lie."[note 3][28][30] Sunni antiquarians, aside from Tabari who don't name the members, notice Muhammad, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn as the members, and some concur with the Shi'i custom that Ali was among them. As needs be, in the section of Mubahalah, in the Shi'i point of view, the expression "our children" alludes to Hasan and Husayn, "our ladies" alludes to Fatimah, and "ourselves" alludes to Ali.