{
 "id": "person/zaynab-bint-ali",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "zaynab-bint-ali",
 "label": {
  "en": "Zaynab bint Ali",
  "ar": "زينب بنت علي"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "Granddaughter of the Prophet through Fatima and Ali; a survivor of Karbala whose accounts and defiance made her a central voice of her family in tradition.",
  "ar": "حفيدة النبي من فاطمة وعلي، ومن الناجين من واقعة كربلاء، وقد جعلتها رواياتها وشجاعتها صوتًا مركزيًا لأهل بيتها في التقليد."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia",
  "levant-iraq",
  "egypt-nile"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun",
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "women",
  "civil-wars-and-revolts",
  "sects-and-schools"
 ],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 625.9997809674394,
  "latest": 683.0002669459016
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0626~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally born in Medina shortly after her brother Husayn; the exact year is not certain.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0682~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Reports differ on the year and on whether she died in Damascus, Cairo or Medina; Cairo tradition gives about 682 CE.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
    "source/momen-1985"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "kind": "full",
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "زينب بنت علي بن أبي طالب"
   },
   {
    "kind": "laqab",
    "lang": "ar-Latn",
    "value": "Zaynab al-Kubra"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
  "born": {
   "edtf": "0626~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Traditionally born in Medina shortly after her brother Husayn; the exact year is not certain.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "0682~",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "note": "Reports differ on the year and on whether she died in Damascus, Cairo or Medina; Cairo tradition gives about 682 CE.",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
    "source/momen-1985"
   ]
  },
  "roles": [
   "companion"
  ],
  "traditions": [
   "sunni",
   "shia-twelver"
  ],
  "story_roles": [
   {
    "role": "family-of-the-prophet",
    "status": "tradition",
    "sources": [
     "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley"
    ]
   },
   {
    "role": "witness",
    "start": {
     "edtf": "0680-10-10"
    },
    "status": "tradition",
    "note": "Survived Karbala and is remembered in tradition as the voice of the captives before Ibn Ziyad and Yazid.",
    "sources": [
     "source/momen-1985"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "sunni",
    "basis": "tradition",
    "note": "Early Muslim; recorded under the museum's Sunni frame (docs/scope.md). She is also venerated in Shia tradition; see the group and family contexts."
   }
  ],
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley",
   "source/momen-1985"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin; 2026-10-11"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "زينب بنت علي سبطة النبي من [[person/fatima|فاطمة]] و[[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib|علي]]. سُبيت مع النساء والصبيان بعد كربلاء، وتذكرها الرواية صوتَ أهلها الجريء بين يدي أعدائهم."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحياة",
     "markdown": "وُلدت بالمدينة نحو سنة 626م {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}، وتزوجت ابن عمها عبد الله بن جعفر، وكان لها بيتها حين خرج أخوها [[person/husayn-ibn-ali|الحسين]] إلى الكوفة سنة 680م.\n\nرافقته فشهدت كربلاء. ولما انقضى القتال تحكي الرواية أنها كلمت ابن زياد عامل الكوفة، ثم يزيد في دمشق، رافضةً أن يُحسب قتل أهلها نهايةَ خارجي {cite:momen-1985}. وتختلف الأخبار في حياتها الباقية وفي موضع وفاتها بين دمشق والقاهرة والمدينة، وللقاهرة مقامها المعروف {cite:momen-1985}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الأثر",
     "markdown": "في ذاكرة السنة والشيعة معًا تحمل زينب حكاية كربلاء ما وراء المعركة: الأخت التي وارَت الموتى وحَمَت الأيتام وأخبرت العالم بما جرى. واسمها من أكرم ما يُسمَّى به بنات المسلمين."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "بعد معركة مريعة أُتيت بزينب إلى الحكام أسيرة. فلم تصمت، بل وقفت تخبرهم بحقيقة ما صنعوا."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/zaynab-bint-ali",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Brief",
     "markdown": "Zaynab was a granddaughter of the Prophet through [[person/fatima]] and [[person/ali-ibn-abi-talib]]. Taken captive with the women and children after Karbala, she is remembered in tradition as the family's fearless voice before its enemies."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life",
     "markdown": "Born in Medina about 626 CE {cite:ibn-sad-tabaqat-bewley}, Zaynab was married to her cousin Abdullah ibn Ja'far and had a household of her own when her brother [[person/husayn-ibn-ali]] set out for Kufa in 680.\n\nShe accompanied him and was present at Karbala. When the killing was over, tradition tells that she spoke back to the governor Ibn Ziyad in Kufa and to Yazid in Damascus, refusing to let the family's death be treated as a rebel's end {cite:momen-1985}. Reports differ on her later life and on whether she died in Damascus, Cairo or Medina — Cairo keeps her shrine {cite:momen-1985}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "In both Sunni and Shia memory Zaynab carries the story of Karbala past the battlefield: the sister who buried the dead, guarded the orphans, and told the world what had happened. Her name is one of the most honored for Muslim girls."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "After a terrible battle, Zaynab was brought before the rulers as a prisoner. Instead of staying silent, she stood up and told them the truth about what they had done."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/zaynab-bint-ali",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "en",
    "translators": []
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 16,
 "contemporaries": [
  "person/abdullah-ibn-abbas",
  "person/halima-al-sadiyya",
  "person/abu-hurayra",
  "person/umm-salama",
  "person/husayn-ibn-ali",
  "person/aisha",
  "person/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas",
  "person/hasan-ibn-ali",
  "person/safiyya-bint-huyayy",
  "person/hafsa",
  "person/abdullah-ibn-salam",
  "person/amr-ibn-al-as"
 ],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/hasan-ibn-ali",
   "type": "sibling_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/husayn-ibn-ali",
   "type": "sibling_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "place/medina",
   "type": "born_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ali-ibn-abi-talib",
   "type": "child_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/fatima",
   "type": "child_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/ahl-al-bayt",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "group/banu-hashim",
   "type": "member_of",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/karbala",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "survivor-taken-captive",
   "sources": [
    "source/momen-1985"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/fatima",
  "person/hasan-ibn-ali",
  "person/husayn-ibn-ali",
  "group/ahl-al-bayt",
  "person/ali-ibn-abi-talib",
  "group/banu-hashim",
  "person/muhammad",
  "place/medina"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}