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... Kufah. The news regarding Husayn's journey from Makkah to Kufah became widespread knowledge that reached even the governor of Kufah, an-Nu'man bin Basheer, who in turn said: "I do not wage war against whoever does not wage war against ...
... Kufah. The news regarding Husayn's journey from Makkah to Kufah became widespread knowledge that reached even the governor of Kufah, an-Nu'man bin Basheer, who in turn said: "I do not wage war against whoever does not wage war against ...
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... Kufah, which the then caliph, Alī, had made his capital. According to Arab custom, the strangers needed to establish an alliance with one of the local tribes. For that reason, we assume that Zūṭā may have allied himself with the Banī ...
... Kufah, which the then caliph, Alī, had made his capital. According to Arab custom, the strangers needed to establish an alliance with one of the local tribes. For that reason, we assume that Zūṭā may have allied himself with the Banī ...
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... Kufah and a Yazid loyalist, discovered the Shiʿi Kufans' incipient treachery and threatened the community into submission. On 11 September 680 C.E. (9 Dhu'l-hijja 60 A.H.), having already written and dispatched a letter affirming Kufah's ...
... Kufah and a Yazid loyalist, discovered the Shiʿi Kufans' incipient treachery and threatened the community into submission. On 11 September 680 C.E. (9 Dhu'l-hijja 60 A.H.), having already written and dispatched a letter affirming Kufah's ...
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... Kufah and al - Başrah were situated on the borders of cultivation , with the healthy high land of the Desert behind them , in the immediate neighbourhood of ancient sites which for centuries had been points of resort familiar to the ...
... Kufah and al - Başrah were situated on the borders of cultivation , with the healthy high land of the Desert behind them , in the immediate neighbourhood of ancient sites which for centuries had been points of resort familiar to the ...
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... Kūfah in 80 AH, seven years before the death of the last Sahāba in Kūfah during the reign of 'Abd al-Malīk b. Marwān, the second king of the house of Marwān. It was most probable that he never heard any hadīth from any of the surviving ...
... Kūfah in 80 AH, seven years before the death of the last Sahāba in Kūfah during the reign of 'Abd al-Malīk b. Marwān, the second king of the house of Marwān. It was most probable that he never heard any hadīth from any of the surviving ...
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