Harith b. Nabhan

Harith b. Nabhan was martyred in the battle of Karbala.

His father, Nabhan was the slave of Hamza b. 'Abd al-Muttalib. He was a brave horseman who passed away two years after the martyrdom of Hamza.^[1] He met the Prophet.^[2] Harith was a companion of Imam Ali and Imam al-Hasan. In the uprising of Imam al-Hussain, he accompanied Imam to Karbala and was martyred in the first attack of the army of Umar b. Sa'd.^[3]

He is different from Harith b. Nabhan al-Basri who was a hadith transmitter.^[4]

References

↑ Ḥusaynī Shīrāzī, Dhakhīrat al-dārayn, p. 472.
↑ Maʿa l-rakb al-Hussain, vol. 4, p. 204.
↑ Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn fī anṣār al-Ḥusayn (a), p. 98.
↑ Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 10, p. 108.

Bibliography

Dhahabī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-. Tārīkh al-Islām wa wafayāt al-mashāhīr wa l-aʿlām. Second edition. Beirut: Dār al-Kitāb al-ʿArabī, 1409 AH.
Ḥusaynī Shīrāzī, ʿAbd al-Majīd al-. Dhakhīrat al-dārayn. Qom: Zamzam-i Hidāyat, [n.d].
Group of authors. Maʿa l-rakb al-Ḥusayn. Second edition. Qom: Taḥsīn, 1386 Sh.
Samāwī, Muḥammad al-. Ibṣār al-ʿayn fī anṣār al-Ḥusayn (a). Qom: Maḥallātī, 1419 AH.

Source

WikiShia, An online encyclopedia of the school of Ahl al-Bayt (a)

[1] Ḥusaynī Shīrāzī, Dhakhīrat al-dārayn, p. 472.

[2] Maʿa l-rakb al-Hussain, vol. 4, p. 204.

[3] Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn fī anṣār al-Ḥusayn (a), p. 98.

[4] Dhahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām, vol. 10, p. 108.

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