The Birth of al-Husayn ibn Ali  عليه السلام — report 0

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ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

وُلِدَ الْحُسَيْنُ بن علي (عَلَيْهما السَّلام) فِي سَنَةِ ثَلاثٍ وَقُبِضَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فِي شَهْرِ الْمُحَرَّمِ مِنْ سَنَةِ إِحْدَى وَسِتِّينَ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ وَلَهُ سَبْعٌ وَخَمْسُونَ سَنَةً وَأَشْهُرٌ قَتَلَهُ عُبَيْدُ الله بْنُ زِيَادٍ لَعَنَهُ الله فِي خِلافَةِ يَزِيدَ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ لَعَنَهُ الله وَهُوَ عَلَى الْكُوفَةِ وَكَانَ عَلَى الْخَيْلِ الَّتِي حَارَبَتْهُ وَقَتَلَتْهُ عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ لَعَنَهُ الله بِكَرْبَلاءَ يَوْمَ الاثْنَيْنِ لِعَشْرٍ خَلَوْنَ مِنَ الْمُحَرَّمِ وَأُمُّهُ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ رَسُولِ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه )

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Al-Husayn ibn Ali عليه السلام was born in the third year AH. He left this word in the month of Muharram in the year sixty one AH. He lived for fifty seven years and few months. ‘Ubaydulla ibn Ziyad murdered him (may Allah condemn him) during the Caliphate of Yazid ibn Mu‘awiya (may Allah’s condemnation be up on him. He was the governor of Kufa. The horse men who murdered him were lead by ‘Umar ibn Sa‘d (may condemn him) in the plain of Karbala. It took place on Monday the tenth of the month of Muharram. His mother was Fatima, daughter of the Messenger of Allah .

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 1, book 4, chapter 116, report 0

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/1/4/116/0. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.