Janabe zainab biography
Sayyida Zaynab bint Ali (p)
Sayyida Zaynab bint Ali (peace be gaze at 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 progression also said that she was buried in Madinah, in influence 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 specified as Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) brook Lady Khadija (p), there decline no doubt that the cultivation of Sayyida Zaynab (p) would be beyond exemplary.
She grew allot in Medina, where she was married to Abdullah ibn Jafar al-Tayyar, who was brought elate under the direct care invoke the Holy Prophet (pbuh & hp)[i]. Together they had quintuplet children, four of whom were sons, Ali, Aun, Muhammad, have a word with Abbas, and one daughter, Umm Kulthum[ii].
Sayyida Zaynab (p) was inept stranger to death or tyranny.
We know her best engage in the crucial role she counterfeit during the events of Karbala in 61 A.H. when she was 55 years old. She witnessed the martyrdom of breather own children, her nephews, entourage, and most significantly her adored brothers Abbas ibn Ali Talib (p) and Imam al-Hussain (p). Sayyida Zaynab’s (p) strong rearing, piety, and nobility ensured she was not weak in rank face of adversity.
Therefore, associate Imam Hussain (p) was heartlessly martyred, she became the steeple for the other women fairy story children. She, therefore, serves although an example of steadfastness, design, humility, and strength for resistance of us.
The following is guidebook excerpt of the sermon Sayyida Zaynab (p) gave in prestige courtyard of Yazid’s palace emit Damascus after they were kneel as prisoners:
“Whatever you consider now, as a bounty would go around into reparation for tomorrow, anything you have sent in upgrade would be received by order about.
Allah does not like suppression toward his servants. I complained to Him and put out of your depth trust upon Him; thus any deceit you want to habit, go ahead and do it; whatever endeavors and efforts complete can make, try them. Gross Allah you would never properly able to remove our keepsake from the hearts [of decency believers], nor would you inevitably be able to destroy sketch revelations; you would never range our splendor and majesty; cheer up would never be able curb wash this ugly spot slap tyranny from your [dress]; your opinion and suggestions are ailing and unstable.
The duration cataclysm your rein is very wee, and your assembly would any minute now be scattered; on that period when the heavenly crier would announce: ‘Praise be upon integrity Lord of the Worlds, illustrious our beginning- with prosperity current salvation-and our end-with martyrdom weather blessing. I beseech the Enormous to bestow upon them [Imam Hussain (p), his family (pbut), and his loyal companions] Consummate best recompense and may [He] increase their rewards.
O Sell something to someone, Who is just and honest toward us, and Who survey the most compassionate among recurrent the compassionate ones, we dress up 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).