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  | Companion of = Imam Ali, Imam al-Hasan
  | Companion of = [[Ali ibn Abi Talib|Imam Ali]], [[Hasan B. Ali B. Abi Taleb|Imam al-Hasan]]
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  | Activities = Shurtat al-khamis, Battle of Siffin
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|Native name=اصبغ بن نباته المُجاشعي التَمیمي الحَنظلي}}
'''Al-Asbagh b. Nubata''' is accredited with the first known account of the [[martyrdom]] of the [[Hussain ibn Ali|Imam al-Hussain]].
'''Al-Asbagh b. Nubata''' is accredited with the first known account of the [[martyrdom]] of the [[Hussain ibn Ali|Imam al-Hussain]].


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==Source==
==Source==
* [http://alhassanain.org/english/?com=book&id=111 A. Howard, Arabic Accounts of al-Husayn's Martyrdom]
 
*[http://alhassanain.org/english/?com=book&id=111 A. Howard, Arabic Accounts of al-Husayn's Martyrdom]
 
==Reference==
==Reference==


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Latest revision as of 15:53, 7 November 2020

Al-Asbagh b. Nubata
Native nameاصبغ بن نباته المُجاشعي التَمیمي الحَنظلي
Full NameAsbagha b. Nubata al-Mujasha'i al-Tamimi al-Hanzali
Companion ofImam Ali, Imam al-Hasan
TeknonymAbu l-Qasim
LineageBanu Hanzala
Wellknown RelativesQasim (son)
Place(s) of ResidenceKufa
ActivitiesShurtat al-khamis, Battle of Siffin

Al-Asbagh b. Nubata is accredited with the first known account of the martyrdom of the Imam al-Hussain.

Biography[edit | edit source]

He was a prominent member of the Shi’i community who came from Kufa. It is claimed that he was in charge of the Shurta in Kufa for the Imam `Ali. He seems to have lived well into the second half of the 1st century. All and was contemporary with the events of the martyrdom.[1]

the Battle of Karbala[edit | edit source]

It seems that little or nothing of his work survives. However, Ibn al-Kalbi (in al-Tabari's version of his account) and al-Mada'ini (as reported by Abu al-Faraj) give reports emanating from his son al-Qasim. These may, in fact, belong to his father's book. The account from Ibn al-Kalbi tells how when the Imam's camp was overrun, he attempted to reach the water and was stopped by a tribesman leading a group of his tribe. The Imam al-Hussain calls on God to make him thirsty, and the tribesman's retort is to shoot an arrow into his throat. The Imam catches the blood with his hands after pulling the arrow out. The account then goes on to describe how that man suffered from an illness so that water would not quench his thirst, and eventually the amount he drank of it killed him.[2] The second report tells of the sufferings of the killer of ‘Abbas b. Ali. This killer dreamed of being flung into hell, so that every night he woke up screaming.[3]

Source[edit | edit source]

Reference[edit | edit source]

  1. Al-Tusi, op. cit., pp. 62-63; Ibn Hajar, Tadhib al-Tahdhib.
  2. Al-Tabari, op. cit., II, 361-2.
  3. Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Maqatil al- Talibiyyin (Najaf, 1965), pp. 78-9.