Harith b. Nabhan

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

Harith b. Nabhan
Native name	الحارِث بن نَبهان
Cause of Death/Martyrdom	He was martyred in the Battle of Karbala
Activities	Participating in the Battle of Karbala

Biography

His father, Nabhan, was the slave of Hamza b. 'Abd al-Muttalib. Nahban was a brave horseman who passed away two years after the martyrdom of Hamza. Harith was a companion of Imam Ali and Imam al-Hasan. He accompanied Imam al-Hussain to Karbala and was martyred in the first attack of the army of Umar b. Sa'd.

Harith b. Nabhan is a different person than Harith b. Nabhan al-Basri, who was a hadith transmitter.

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)