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Husayn ibn Ali
الحسين بن علي ar حسین بن علی fa
Grandson of Muhammad and the 3rd Shia Imam (626–680)
- Child of Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib and Fatima
- Married to Layla bint Abi Murrah al-Thaqafi, Shahrbanu, Umm Ishaq bint Talhah and 2 more
- Dated 9 January 626 CE – 10 October 680 CE
Overview
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Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
Offices held 1
- 669 CE – 680 CE Imam of Twelver Shiism Number 3 in the sequence Succeeded Hasan ibn Ali · Succeeded by Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin
Family tree
The family as a list · 30
Family 30
- child of (child) Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib 4th Rashidun Caliph (r. 656–661) and first Shia Imam
- child of (child) Fatima daughter of Muhammad (c. 605–632)
- parent of (father) Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn great-grandson of Muhammad (c. 652-680)
- parent of (father) Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn Islamic martyr
- parent of (father) Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-'Abidin Great-grandson of Muhammad and the fourth of the Shiite Imams
- parent of (child) Fatima al-Sughra bint al-Husayn daughter of Husayn Ibn Ali
- parent of (child) Kholat bint Husayn daughter of Imam Husayn
- parent of (father) Ruqayyah bint Husayn daughter of Husayn ibn Ali
- parent of (child) Safia bint Husayn
- parent of (father) Sakina bint Husayn Islamic princess
- sibling of Abbas ibn Ali Son of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (647-680)
- sibling of Abdullah ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib Son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Umm al-Banin (died 680)
- sibling of Abu Bakr ibn Ali son of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- sibling of Fatima bint Ali
- sibling of Hasan ibn Ali 5th Rashidun Caliph (r. 661) and second Shia Imam
- sibling of Ja'far ibn Ali son of Ali ibn Abi Talib (died 680)
- sibling of Muhammad al-Awsat ibn Ali son of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib
- sibling of Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah Alid political and religious leader (c.637-700)
- sibling of Ruqayya bint Ali daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- sibling of Ubayd Allah ibn Ali ibn Abdullah
- sibling of Umar ibn Alí Child of Ali ibn Abi Talib
- sibling of Umm Kulthum bint Ali Granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- sibling of Uthman ibn Ali Son of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (died 680)
- sibling of Zaynab bint Ali daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah bint Muhammad (626-682)
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- sibling of محسنؑ ابنِ علیؑ Mohsinؑ ibn Aliؑ son of Fatimahۜ bint Muhammadﷺ and علیؑ ibn Abi Talibؑ
- married to Atika bint Zayd companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- married to Layla bint Abi Murrah al-Thaqafi Wife of Husayn ibn Ali
- married to Rubab bint Imra al-Qais spouse of Al-Hussain Bin Ali
- married to Shahrbanu alleged wife of Husayn Ibn Ali
- married to Umm Ishaq bint Talhah Daughter of Talhah and wife of Hasan and Husayn
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
Connections
Affiliation 3
- Sayyidā Shabāb Ahl al-Janna Title attributed to Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali, meaning “the two leaders of the youth of Paradise"
- The Fourteen Infallibles Muhammad, Fatima, and the Twelve Imams in Twelver Shia Islam
- The Twelve Imams Muhammad ibn Abdullah's successors according to the beliefs of the Twelver Shiites
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