Imam Husain was born to the daughter of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), Sayyida Fatima, in the month of Shaban 4 Hijra, Sayyiduna Hasan, Husain and Mohsin were three brothers. Mohsin passed away in his infancy. When Sayyiduna Hasan, Imam Husains older brother, was born, Sayyiduna Ali named him Harb. When the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) enquired as to the chosen name, Sayyiduna Ali said that the name Harb had been chosen. However, the Prophet replied his name should be Hasan. When Imam Husain was born, Sayyiduna Ali again named Imam Husain Harb. The Prophet again said, no his name is Husain. When the third child was born Sayyiduna Ali again named him Harb, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) again said, No his name is Mohsin. Then the Prophet said, I have given the children the same names that the prophet Harun (alai his sallam) gave his children. His childrens names were Shaber, Sabbir, and Moshabir, in other words Hasan, Husain, and Mohsin. The names Hasan and Husain are from the people of Paradise . In the time of ignorance, before the time of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) no one had been given these names. [Imam Ibn Atheer narrates the above incident in his book, Usdul-Gabah] When Imam Husain was born, the Prophet (sallal ho alihi wasallam) came and recited the Adhan in his ear. Sayyiduna Hasan and Husain had the likeness of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), Sayyiduna Hasan from the chest upwards looked very similar to the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), and Imam Husain looked identical from the waist down to our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace). Usdul Gabah fi Marefat-i- Sahabah - biography of Sayyiduna Imam Husain by Allama Ibn Atheer . EXCELLENCE OF IMAM HUSAIN Hafiz Ibn Katheer writes that one day an angel came and sat down by the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace). Our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said to Umme Salma (the wife of the Prophet and the mothers of the believers), we have a guest, do not let any one enter as we are having a conversation. In the meantime Imam Husain, who at the time was very young, entered the room, and as children do, Imam Husain climbed on top of our Prophets shoulder. The angel said Do you love him; Our Prophet replied Yes. The angel then said Your followers will at a later time martyr him. If you wish I can show you where he will be martyred. Our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said he would like to see where his grandson would be martyred. The angel then waved his hand and brought some red soil and said, This is the place where he will be martyred. Our Prophet took some soil from his hand and gave it to Umme Salma. She put the soil in a bottle. After this it became known amongst the companions that Imam Husain would be martyred in a place called Karbala . Our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) told them that if any of them are present at the time, they should support him. Sayyiduna Anas bin Harith was with Imam Husain in Karbala and was martyred. Once when Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah Most High be pleased with him, was in Iraq and was passing the field of Karbala with Abu Abdullah. He shouted, O Abu Abdullah stop! O Abu Abdullah go and stop near the river Euphrates . Sayyiduna Ali then said, One day I went to see the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and he had tears in his eyes. When I asked him why he had tears in his eyes, he said that the angel Gabriel had come to see him and had told him that Husain will be martyred near the river Euphrates , and the angel had given him some soil from there. In another narration it is said that once Sayyiduna Ali, may Allah Most High be pleased with him, was passing by a place, he asked: What is this place called? Someone said, This is Karbala . Sayyiduna Ali seighed, O Karbala. He stopped there and performed salah (prayer) and then said that the people who will be martyred here will have the highest status among martyrs, after the companions, and they will enter Paradise without any reckoning. While Sayyiduna Ali was there he pointed to the place where Imam Husain would be martyred. The narrator confirms that Imam Husain was in fact martyred in the exact spot Sayyiduna Ali had pointed to. Our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, Imam Husain and Sayyiduna Hasan are my two flowers of the world. He also said, Whoever loves them loves me and whoever hates them, hates me.” Abu Huraira, may Allah Most High be pleased with him, said that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) looked towards Sayyiduna Hasan, Imam Husain and Sayyiduna Fatima and said, Whoever fights with you, I will fight with him and whoever loves you I will love him. Sayyiduna Abu Huraira, may Allah Most High be pleased with him, said, One day the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) came to us, and on one of his shoulders was Sayyiduna Hasan and on the other Imam Husain. On the way to us we saw that sometimes he would kiss Sayyiduna Hasan and sometimes he would kiss Imam Husain. One person spoke and said, Our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) do you love them very dearly? The Prophet answered, Yes, I love them dearly. Whoever loves them I will also love him and whoever holds a grudge against them, he in fact holds a grudge against me. Sayyiduna Laila bin Murrah says, The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said that “Husain is mine and I am his. Whoever loves Husain, Allah Most High will love him because Husain is my grandson. Sayyiduna Abu Said Khudri says that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said that “Sayyiduna Hasan and Husain are the leaders of the youth in Paradise .” Rabi bin Sad narrates that Imam Husain came into the Mosque. Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah, who was the companion of the Prophet, said, I have heard from the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) that whoever wants to see the leader of Paradise should look at Husain. Sayyiduna Abu Huraira, may Allah Most High be pleased with him, narrates that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said that he “loved Imam Husain and Sayyiduna Hasan and whoever loved him should love them. The Prophet made supplication to Allah Most High that I love Hasan and Husain and hope you also love and protect them.” He also narrates that “once Hasan and Husain came into the Mosque (Masjid-I-Nabawi) and the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) was performing his prayer. When he would go into prostration Sayyiduna Hasan and Husain would jump onto his back, and when our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) sat up from the prostration, he would slowly put them down. When he would go into prostration again they would jump on his back again, until he would finish the prayers. Sayyiduna Abu Huraira said that he went to the Prophet and said, Shall I take them to their mother as it is getting darker outside. As soon as he finished saying this, a light lit up on the path from the Mosque to the house of their mother (Fatima). The light was so strong that we could see Sayyida Fatimas house from where we were sitting. The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said to his grandsons You may go home now. [Tareekh Ibn Katheer by Hafiz Ibn Katheer - chapter on Karbala and Imam Husain ] These Ahadith written by Hafiz Ibn Katheer in the excellence of Imam Husain have been collected from Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmizi, Musnad Ahmed, and other books of Hadith. These ahadith have been accepted as authentic ahadith by all of the following scholars: (a) Hafiz Ibn Taimiyah (b) Hafiz Ibn Qayyim (c) Hafiz Ibn Katheer (d) Qadi Shuwkani (d) Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab. Footnote: As some people do not accept the authenticity of a hadith unless it is accepted by particular scholars. Therefore, we have taken all these Ahadith from Hafiz Ibn Katheers book
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