The Life & Character of the Seal of Prophets (sa) - Volume II — Page 386
Seal of the Prophets - Volume II 386 age, more or less. However, only a few months after her marriage, she passed away in Rabī‘ul-Awwal 4 A. H. , and the Holy Prophet sa buried her in Jannatul- Baqī‘. Zainab bint Khuzaimah ra was a very righteous and pious lady, and due to her charity, alms, and attention towards the less fortunate, she was generally known by the name of “ Ummul-Masākīn. ” 1 Birth of Ḥusain ra - Sha‘bān 4 A. H. The very same year, in the month of Sha‘bān , Ḥaḍrat Fāṭimah ra was blessed with a second child, who was named Ḥusain by the Holy Prophet sa. Ḥusain ra was just as dear to the Holy Prophet sa as was his brother Ḥasan ra. At times, the Holy Prophet sa would refer to them as his two flowers. 2 This is the same Imām Ḥusain (may Allāh be please with him) who met his Beloved Creator, after being cruelly martyred on the 10th of Muḥarram in 61 A. H. , in the era of Yazīd bin Mu‘āwiyyah bin Abī Sufyān. 3 To this day, in remembrance of his martyrdom, Shī‘ah people mourn and practice the custom of Ta‘ziyyah. 4 Ghazwah of Badrul-Mau‘id - Dhū Qa‘dah In the events of the battle of Uḥud, it has already been mentioned that whilst returning from the battlefield, Abū Sufyān challenged the Muslims to both parties meeting again the following year at Badr, and the Holy Prophet sa announced his acceptance of this challenge. Hence, the following year, in 4 A. H. at the end of the month of Shawwāl , the Holy Prophet sa set out from Madīnah with a force of 1,500 Companions and appointed ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Abdullāh bin Ubayy as the Amīr in his absence. 5 On the other hand, Abū Sufyān bin Ḥarb also set out from Makkah with an army of the Quraish, consisting of 2,000 men. However, despite the victory at Uḥud, and a force this large, his heart was fearful and even though he was 1 * Sharḥul-‘Allāmatiz-Zarqānī ‘Alal-Mawāhibil-Ladunniyyah, By Allāmah Shihābuddīn Al-Qusṭalānī, Volume 4, pp. 416-417, Zainab Ummul-Masākīna Wal-Mu’minīn, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (1996) * Al-Iṣābah Fī Tamīziṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 8, p. 157, Zainab bint Khuzaimah, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2005) 2 Ṣaḥīḥul-Bukhārī, Kitābu Faḍā’ili Aṣḥābin-Nabiyyi sa , Bābu Manāqibil-Ḥasan Wal-Ḥusain ra , Ḥadīth No. 3753 3 Al-Iṣābah Fī Tamīziṣ-Ṣaḥābah, By Aḥmad bin ‘Alī bin Ḥajar Al-‘Asqalānī, Volume 2, p. 72, Ḥusain bin ‘Alī, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon (2005) 4 The non-Islāmic custom of wailing and beating oneself as an extreme expresson of grief. [Publishers] 5 As-Sīratun-Nabawiyyah, By Abū Muḥammad ‘Abdul-Mālik bin Hishām, p. 618, Ghazwatu Badril- Ākhirah, Dārul-Kutubil-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut, Lebanon, First Edition (2001)