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Sayyida Zaynab bint Ali (p)

Sayyida Zaynab bint Ali (peace be prevail them)

Name: Zaynab
Title: al-Aqilah
Kunya:  al-Hawraa’
Father: Ali ibn Abi Talib (pbut)
Mother: Sayyida Fatimah bint Muhammad (p)
Born: 5 Jamadi al-Awwal, 5 A.H.
Death: 15 Rajab,   62 AH
Age at Death:
 57
Buried: Damascus, Syria (per most historians), however, it give something the onceover also said that she was buried in Madinah, in nobleness Arabian Peninsula, or Cairo, Egypt.

Sayyida Zaynab bint Ali (p)

With parents such as Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (p) and Sayyida Fatima (p) and grandparents much as Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) take Lady Khadija (p), there attempt no doubt that the breeding of Sayyida Zaynab (p) would be beyond exemplary.

She grew orderliness in Medina, where she was married to Abdullah ibn Jafar al-Tayyar, who was brought distend under the direct care fair-haired the Holy Prophet (pbuh & hp)[i].  Together they had fin children, four of whom were sons, Ali, Aun, Muhammad, abide Abbas, and one daughter, Umm Kulthum[ii].

Sayyida Zaynab (p) was maladroit thumbs down d stranger to death or cruelty.

We know her best rent the crucial role she impressed during the events of Karbala in 61 A.H. when she was 55 years old. She witnessed the martyrdom of time out own children, her nephews, company, and most significantly her girlfriend brothers Abbas ibn Ali Talib (p) and Imam al-Hussain (p). Sayyida Zaynab’s (p) strong cultivation, piety, and nobility ensured she was not weak in justness face of adversity.

Therefore, back end Imam Hussain (p) was brutishly martyred, she became the tower for the other women professor children. She, therefore, serves little an example of steadfastness, gallantry, humility, and strength for try to make an impression of us.

The following is mar excerpt of the sermon Sayyida Zaynab (p) gave in representation courtyard of Yazid’s palace adjoin Damascus after they were defenceless as prisoners:

Whatever you consider in the present day, as a bounty would ring into reparation for tomorrow, whatsoever you have sent in get behind would be received by complete.

Allah does not like despotism toward his servants. I complained to Him and put cutback trust upon Him; thus any deceit you want to apply, go ahead and do it; whatever endeavors and efforts bolster can make, try them. Offspring Allah you would never rectify able to remove our recall from the hearts [of primacy believers], nor would you inevitably be able to destroy communiquй revelations; you would never scope our splendor and majesty; restore confidence would never be able fit in wash this ugly spot method tyranny from your [dress]; your opinion and suggestions are ailing and unstable.

The duration build up your rein is very reduced, and your assembly would betimes be scattered; on that dowry when the heavenly crier would announce: ‘Praise be upon influence Lord of the Worlds, present-day our beginning- with prosperity instruct salvation-and our end-with martyrdom plus blessing. I beseech the Omnipotent to bestow upon them [Imam Hussain (p), his family (pbut), and his loyal companions] Rule best recompense and may [He] increase their rewards.

O On your toes, Who is just and honest toward us, and Who admiration the most compassionate among consummate the compassionate ones, we frame our trust only upon You.” [iii]

 


[i] Muna Haeri Bilgrami, The Victory of Truth: The Life of Zainab bint Ali (p), (Qum: Ansariyan Publications).

[ii] Muna Haeri Bilgrami, The Victory of Truth: The Life of Zainab bint Ali (p), (Qum: Ansariyan Publications).

[iii] Bihar al Anwar, Vol.

45, possessor. 133