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Ali was born in Mecca to Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib and his wife Fatima bint Asad around 600 CE. [2] His date of birth is possibly 13 Rajab, [3] [4] which is the occasion celebrated annually by Shia Muslims. [5]
Ali was born to Abu Talib and his wife Fatima bint Asad around 600 CE, [1] some thirty years after the Year of the Elephant. [2] Shia and some Sunni sources report that Ali was the only person born in the Ka'ba, the ancient shrine in the city of Mecca which later became the most sacred site in Islam.
September 622: Laylat al-mabit: Ali risked his life by sleeping in Muhammad's bed to impersonate him and thwart an assassination plot, so that Muhammad could escape from Mecca in safety and migrate to Medina. [1] 622: Ali migrated with his wife, Fatima Zahra and Umm Kulthum bint Ali, and another women. 622 or 623:The prophet chose him as his ...
Ali bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi (Arabic: علي بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي, romanized: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī; 1879 – 13 February 1935), was King of Hejaz and Grand Sharif of Mecca from October 1924 until he was deposed by Ibn Saud in December 1925.
[23] [24] Ali thus opposed the caliphate of Abu Bakr, who was hastily elected in the absence of Ali and the rest of Muhammad's kin. [25] Perhaps in the interest of the Muslim unity, [ 22 ] [ 26 ] Ali eventually accepted the temporal rule of the first three caliphs, [ 27 ] but without giving up his claims as the designated successor of Muhammad ...
Ali ibn Abu Talib pressed on undismayed into the enemy ranks – it was Badr again; the Muslims were invincible. (Sir John Glubb, The Great Arab Conquests, 1963) Ali and Hamza had broken the ranks of the Quraysh, and he was already deep inside their lines. Unable to resist his attack, they began to yield ground.
Hussein bin Ali was buried in Jerusalem in 1931, as he wasn't able to be buried in Mecca, as he wanted and as was the norm for Sharifs of Mecca until then, for Ibn Saud didn't want to allow him being buried there. [11] Thus, local dignitaries and leaders wanted him to be buried in the al-Aqsa mosque compound. [37]
This person is Ali, who has the closest spiritual closeness to Muhammad. That is, the Muhammadan guardianship is the esoteric and hidden aspect of the prophethood of all the prophets that has emerged with Ali. [8] That is why most Sufi teachings bring their spiritual lineage to Ali and start from him.