and the poet of Medina, ʿAbd Allah ibn Qays al-Ruqayāt (1), renowned for his love-lyrics to Kathīrah; al-Aḥwaṣ (2) of Medina, ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿĀṣim ibn Thābit ibn Abī al-Aqlaḥ; Ziyād al-Aʿjam (3), one of the masters of eloquence; ʿAdī ibn Zayd, known as Ibn al-Riqāʿ al-Abras (4); and ʿAdī ibn Zayd al-Ḥammād al-ʿIbādī (5), an early Christian and a consummate poet.
- ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, son of the Imām ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-Hāshimī, grandson of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf—the noble master, the Imām, Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, of the Hāshimite, ʿAlawite, and Medinan lineages.
His kunya was Abū al-Ḥusayn; he was also called Abū al-Ḥasan, Abū Muḥammad, and Abū ʿAbd Allah.
His mother was a concubine named Salāmah—also reported as Sulāfah—the daughter of the Persian king Yazdegerd; some say her name was Ghazālah.
He is thought to have been born in 38 AH.
He transmitted from his father, the martyr al-Ḥusayn. He was with him on the day of the Karbalāʾ tragedy, then twenty-three years old, and because he was feverish he did not fight; they left him unharmed, but brought him instead.
(1) The generally accepted reading is “Ubayd Allah”; see his biographical entry in the author’s Tarikh al-Islam, vol. 3, p. 190.
(2) His biography will appear below on p. 593 of this volume.
(3) His biography will appear below on p. 597 of this volume.
(4) See his biography in vol. 5, p. 33 of the original text.
(5) See his biography in vol. 5, p. 33 of the original text.
(*) Ibn Saʿd, Tabaqat, 5/211; Khalifah, Tabaqat, no. 2044; al-Bukhari, Tarikh, 6/266; Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿarif, p. 214; al-Fasawi, al-Maʿrifa wa-l-Tarikh, 1/360 and 544; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 3, part 1, p. 178; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, 3/133; al-Shirazi, Tabaqat al-Fuqahaʾ, p. 63; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tarikh, 12/15b; al-Nawawi, Tadhhib al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Lughat, part 1 of vol. 1, p. 343; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Aʿyan, 3/266; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal, p. 965; al-Dhahabi, Tarikh al-Islam, 4/34; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 1/70; al-Dhahabi, al-Ibar, 1/111; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, 3/57a; Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 9/103; Ibn al-Jazari, Ghaya al-Nihaya, no. 2206; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, 7/304; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-Zahira, 1/229; al-Suyuti, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, p. 30; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Tahdhib, p. 272.