Concerning his own brother Husayn, Shoghi Effendi sent the following cable to the Bahá ' í world in April 1945:

That city had fallen and then in July, Abdullah, the eldest son of the Hashemite leader and Sharif of Mecca Husayn ibn Ali, was sent with seventy men to Tā ' if.

To convince Husayn to come they sent him seven messengers with bags of letters of support by Kufan warriors and tribal leaders.

He sent a message to Husayn, at instruction of Yazid, stating " You can neither go to Kufa nor return to Mecca, but you can go anywhere else you want.

Sulayman al-Arabi, the pro-Abbasid Wali ( governor ) of Barcelona and Girona, sent a delegation to Charlemagne in Paderborn, offering his submission, along with the allegiance of Husayn of Zaragoza and Abu Taur of Huesca in return for military aid.

Persian embassy to Louis XIV sent by Sultan Husayn in 1715.

According to Ibn al-Athir, threatened by Abd ar-Rahman I, the Umayyad emir of Córdoba, al-Arabi sent a delegation to Charlemagne in Paderborn, offering his submission, together with the allegiance of Husayn of Zaragoza and Abu Taur of Huesca in return for military aid.

A letter was sent to the late Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Husayn Borujerdi asking him for help ; Grand Ayatollah agreed with the plan and donated 100, 000 Rials to the center.

Husayn defeated Yadgar at the Battle of Chinaran ( September 15, 1469 ), but the latter was sent reinforcements.

At the death of the Muawiyah I, Husayn was forced out of Mecca due to the assassins that were sent by Muawiyah's son Yazid I to kill Husayn during pilgrimage, thus, Husayn went to Kufa by the invitation of the people of Kufa for him to claim the leadership of the Muslim community.

Muslim ibn Aqeel was sent ahead as an envoy to Kufa to see if the people could be trusted to be loyal to the Imam Husayn.

Through you Allah will unite us on the path of truth .” A few days later, the people of Kufa sent an emissary, a special messenger, to Husayn ibn Ali to persuade him to go to Kufa.

When Husayn nevertheless left on the expedition that ended at Karbala, Abdullah sent his young sons Aun and Muhammad with his wife, Husayn's sister Zainab.

Mir Wais was sent as a prisoner to the Persian court in Isfahan but the charges against him were dismissed by Shah Husayn, so he was sent back to his native land as a free man.

For several years his brother Husayn and several cousins served him as secretaries.

* " My faithless brother Husayn, after long period of dishonourable conduct, has abandoned the Master's home to consort with his sister and other Covenant-breakers.

When Hasan ibn Ali agreed to make a peace treaty with Muawiyah I, the first Umayyad caliph, he left Kufa and went to Medina with his brother Husayn.

According to the Shia, Husayn had gained the third Imam for a period of ten years after the death of his brother Hassan in 669.

There a divine guidance came to the effect by way of intuition that a sincere, faithful, loyal and devoted brother could not tolerate, that the head of Muhammad's grandson, Husayn, buried in Al Qahera, Egypt, should be without a Maqsurah, thus how could he accept this gift for himself.

Husayn ibn Ali and his brother Hasan ibn Ali were regarded by Prophet Muhammed as his own sons due to his love for them and as they were the sons of his daughter Fatima and he regarded her children and descendants as his own children and descendants, and he said " Every mothers children are associated with their father except for the children of Fatima for I am their father and lineage " Thus only the descendants of Fatima are the descendants and progeny of the Prophet and his Ahlul Bayt.

Hasan and his younger brother, Husayn ibn Ali, are believed to have been greatly beloved by their grandfather Muhammad as numerous hadiths affirm.

There are also hadiths that state that Hasan and Husayn are the Masters of the youth in paradise and that Hasan and his brother Hussein are imams " whether they sit or stand ".

The Shia view is that Ali ’ s right to the caliphate was usurped and his family abused by Abu Bakr but Ali, Hasan and his younger brother Husayn ibn Ali valued the Muslim community's stability above their own rights, even going to defend the third caliph Uthman before Ali himself received the caliphate.

According to Ali's appointment before his death the choice was restricted to Hasan and his younger brother Husayn.

Husayn, fulfilling the last wish of his brother, turned the procession of the funeral towards Jannat al-Baqi, the general graveyard of Medina, where he was buried.

" said Mamun, " Son of Musa, son of Jafar, son of Muhammad, son of Ali, son of Husayn, brother of Hasan, son of Ali the cousin and successor to Muhammad the Messenger of God "

The city of Karbala in Iraq, the third holy place of Shia Islam, is the center of the proceedings where, in a show of humility, many crawl through the streets of the city while others fall on their hands and knees as they approach the Shrines of Husayn and his brother Abbas ibn Ali.

He participated in the assault on Zaragoza in 781 ( that compelled to Husayn submit ) and in subsequent expeditions into Basque territories and Cerdaña, moving on then to Barcelona where his brother as Wali also submitted to the Emir.

Her death was followed by several other deaths which hurt the family: a year later the death of Mírzá Músá, the brother of Bahá ’ u ’ lláh, followed by the passing of ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá ’ s son and Bahá ’ u ’ lláh grandson ( five-year-old Husayn ) only increased Bahá ’ u ’ lláh ’ s mourning.

Muh &# 803 ; ammad-H &# 803 ; asan Bu < u > sh </ u > rú ' í was the second Letter of the Living, and the brother of Mullá Husayn.

Upon Hussein Kamel's death, his only son, Prince Kamal al-Din Husayn, declined the succession, and Hussein Kamel's brother Ahmed Fuad ascended the throne as Fuad I.

Narratives state that he did not open his eyes after he was born until his brother Husayn ibn Ali took him in his arms.

") he was actually calling for his brother, Husayn.

Tradition says that Zaynab, already in anguish due to the death of her brother Husayn and her sons Aun and Muhammad, was forced to march unveiled.

Sayyida Nafisa bint Hasan along with Sayyida Zaynab are traditionally considered the patron saints of the Cairo city. She is woman from Ahl al-Bayt family. She was the daughter of al-Hasan al-Anwar, the son of Zaid al-Ablaj, son of Imam Hasan, brother of Imam Husayn, son of the Daughter of the Prophet Sayyida Fatimat al-Zahra.

Ali told Ja ' far not to prevent Zainab from going on a journey with Husayn, her brother.

When Hasan's brother Husayn prepared to leave Medina in 670, Qasim's mother Umm Farwa asked Husayn to take her and Al-Qasim with him.

Hence even after Shahadat, Al-Abbas ibn Ali paid his tribute to Husayn and presented his own Maqsurah for Raas ( head ) al Imam al Husain.

* As a Shia, the early Muslims whom Khomeini looked to were Ali ibn Abī Tālib and Husayn ibn Ali, not Caliphs Abu Bakr, Omar or Uthman.

According to Ali ibn al-Athir, a Kurdish historian of the 12th century, Charlemagne received the envoys of Sulayman al-Arabi, Husayn, and Abu Taur at the Diet of Paderborn in 777.

In particular, Shia Islamic plays revolved around the shaheed ( martyrdom ) of Ali's sons Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali.

* 680: Battle of Karbala took place near Kufa which led to killing of Husayn ibn Ali and the division of Muslim community.

* Ali ibn Husayn, great grandson of Muhammad and Shī ‘ ah Imām

* Tahir ibn Husayn, founder of the Persian Tahirid dynasty

* Ali ibn Husayn, great-grandson of Prophet Muhammad and fourth Shia Imam

* Ali ibn Husayn, great-grandson of Prophet Muhammad and fourth Shia Imam

The Conquest of Mecca while overwhelming for the Umayyads for the time being, further fueled their hatred towards the Hashmites ; this would later result in battles between Muawiyah I and Ali and then killing of Husayn ibn Ali along with his family and a few friends on the orders of Yazid ibn Muawiyah at the Battle of Karbala.

This was through her marriage to Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

Interestingly, Sakina, or Sakina bint Husayn, was also the name of the youngest female child of Husayn ibn Ali, ostensibly the first girl in recorded history to be given the name.

His daughter Shahrbanu is believed to be the wife of Husayn ibn Ali ; his other daughter Izdundad was married to Bustanai ben Haninai, the Jewish exilarch.

Tensions between the King of the Hejaz, Husayn ibn Ali, and Abdulaziz al-Saud, Sultan of Nejd, soon broke out into violence.

* Several Tekyehs: traditional places for mourning Muharram ceremonies for Husayn ibn Ali.

This was through her marriage to Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

* Imam Husayn Mosque, Karbala – according to Shī ‘ ah belief, the head and body of Husayn ibn Ali, along with all others who fell at the Battle of Karbala are buried here.

Very similar practices exist in non-Roman Catholic traditions, including actual flagellation amongst Shiites ( commemorating the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali ), as well as traditions such as whipping women ( while spanking men ) in a Taoist temple on the Chinese New Year.

*' Ali ibn Husayn ( Zayn al-Abidin ), fourth infallible imam in Shi ' a thought, grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib