Editing Abd Allah ibn Muslim ibn Aqil

{{Infobox companion of Imam (a)
 |image=|image size=|caption=|Full name=Abd Allah ibn Muslim ibn Aqil|Companion of=[[Hussain ibn Ali]]|Kunya=|Epithet=|Well Known As=|Religious Affiliation=|Lineage=|Well known relatives=|Birth=|Place of Birth=|Place of Residence=|Death/martyrdom=61/680|Cause of Death/martyrdom=Martyred in the Event of [[Ashura]]|Burial place=[[Karbala]]|Professors=|Students=|Works=|Activities=Participating in the [[battle of Karbala]]|Native name=عبدالله بن مُسلِم بن عَقیل بن أَبی طالب}}'''Abd Allah ibn Muslim ibn Aqil''' was among companion of [[Imam Hussain]] who was martyred in the [[Battle of Karbala]]. It is said that the first one among [[Ahl al-Bayt]] who stepped into the battlefield and was martyred was Abd Allah b. Muslim bin Aqil. His name is mentioned in [[Ziarat al-Shuhada]] and [[Ziyarat al-Rajabiyya]] of [[Hussain ibn Ali|Imam al-Hussain]].
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== Lineage and Biography ==
Abd Allah b. Muslim is the son of [[Muslim b. Aqil b. Abi Talib]]. [[Muhammad b. Jarir al-Tabari|Al-Tabari]] and Abul Faraj says that his mother was Ruqayyah, the daughter of Imam [[Ali ibn Abi Talib|Ali]].<ref>Ṭūsī, ''al-Rijāl'', p. 103; Maghribī, ''Sharḥ al-akhbār'', vol. 3, p. 195.</ref> He was 26 or 28 when he was martyred. <ref>Muḥammadī Rayshahrī, ''Dānishnāma-yi Imām Ḥusayn (a)'', p. 160-161.</ref>

Dhabih Allah Mahallati in ''Rayahayn al-Shari'a'' wrote he was the husband of [[Sakina bint Hussain|Sukayna]] daughter of [[Hussain ibn Ali|Imam al-Hussain]].<ref>Maḥallātī, ''Rayāḥīn al-sharī'a'', vol. 4, p. 255.</ref>

== In Karbala ==
The first one among the [[Ahl al-Bayt]] to step into the battlefield was Abd Allah b. Muslim bin Aqil.<ref>Khwārizmī, ''Maqtal al-Ḥusayn'', vol. 2, p. 26; Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, ''Kitāb al-Futūḥ'', vol. 5, p. 110; Ibn Shahrāshūb, ''al-Manāqib'', vol. 4, p. 105.</ref> He was reciting the following Rajaz: “Today I shall meet Muslim my father, and I shall meet the youth who sacrificed their entirety for the Religion of the Prophet, they are a group who do not know to lie, but they were fair and of noble descent from Hashim, the masters of the noblemen”. 

Al-Tabari in his history book narrated from Humayd b. Muslim al-Azdi, and also al-Shaykh al-Mufid in ''al-Irshad'', that Amr b. Subayh al-Sada'i shot him by an arrow which sewed his hand to his forehead, then he was attacked and martyred.<ref>Balādhurī, ''Ansāb al-ashrāf'', vol. 3, p. 200.</ref> [[Amr b. Subayh al-Saydawi|Amr b. Subayh]] fired an arrow towards him. He wanted to protect his face by his hand; but the arrow sewed his hand to his forehead and he could not move his hand. Then another arrow hit him on his heart.<ref>Ṭabarī, ''Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī'', vol. 4, p. 341; Mufīd, ''al-Irshād'', vol. 2, p. 107.</ref>

== Source ==  
* [https://en.wikishia.net/view/%27Abd_Allah_b._Muslim_b._%27Aqil WikiShia, An online encyclopedia of the school of Ahl al-Bayt]
* [http://alhassanain.org/Nafasul%20Mahmum%3B%20Relating%20to%20the%20heart%20rending%20tragedy%20of%20Karbala/Nafasul_Mahmum%3B_Relating_to_the_heart_rending_tragedy_of_Karbala_html/nafasul_mahmum.htm Shaykh 'Abbas Qummi , Nafasul Mahmum; Relating to the heart rending tragedy of Karbala]
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