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Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī

Personnalité historique

Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī (4-61 AH / 626-680), grandson of the Prophet ﷺ, son of ʿAlī and Fāṭima. Refusing allegiance to Yazīd, he left for Iraq and was killed with his family in Karbalāʾ on the day of ʿĀshūrāʾ. Scholars consider him a martyr killed unjustly.