Ibn Hanbal says:
Muhammad bin ‘Ubayd has related to us from Sharhabīl bin Madrak from ‘Abdullāh bin Nujayy from his father who narrates that he was marching with (Imam) ‘Alī [(‘a)] towards Siffīn and when we …

The desert was very vast. The sky was full of stars. An old man aged seventy-five left his tent. The old man jumped on his horse and rode away. The old man heard a wolf …

Ali bin Abi-Talib (علي بن أبي طالب) (c. 600 – 661) was the fourth Caliph or successor of Mohammad. He was born at Mecca where his father, Abu Talib, was an uncle of the Prophet. …

2.255: Allah is He besides Whom there is no god, the Everliving, the Self-subsisting by Whom all subsist; slumber does not overtake Him nor sleep; whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the …

   All praise belongs to the Almighty [s], the Lord of the Universe.
The moon of Muharram is upon us, and with it comes the Message of Karbala. As the river of tears starts to flow, and …

For the followers of the Ahlul Bayt (as), the first two months of the Islamic year are a time for grief and mourning. It was on the 10th of Muharram, 61 A.H/680 C.E that Imam …

It is a historically foregone conclusion that Imam Hussein (a.s.) was fully aware of the fact that his opposition to the Ummayyad policy and the strong stance he took against it would only lead to …