Health, body and death

Family: People and stages of life · 3 entries

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• Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib

  c. 568 CEAn uncle of the Prophet who became one of the fiercest early defenders of Islam; killed at Uhud and remembered in tradition as the Master of the Martyrs.

• Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah

  c. 583 CEAn early Qurayshi convert the Prophet called the trustworthy man of this community; he commanded the armies in Syria at the height of the conquest and died in the plague of Amwas.

• Husayn ibn Ali

  c. January 626 CE · c. Rabi' I 4 AHYounger grandson of the Prophet through Fatima and Ali; killed at Karbala in 680 CE after refusing allegiance to Yazid I, an event of lasting significance especially in Shia tradition.

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