Ali -asws (the cousin and successor) of Prophet Mohammed...

Ali -asws (the cousin and successor) of Prophet Mohammed -saww was gifted to Abu Talib -asws and Syeda Fatimah -asws binte [4] Asad -asws 30 years after the year of the elephant, in the Kabah on Friday on the night of 13 th Rajab. Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws (6 th Shia Imam) says that Ali -asws (Amir Al-Momineen -asws – chief of the believers) was blessed to his -asws parents thirty years after the coming to the world of holy Prophet -saww .

[5] The narrator of the Hadith says I heard it from Imam Ali -asws bin Al-Hussain -asws that Syeda Fatima -asws Binte Asad -asws was performing circumambulation ( tawaf ) of the Kabah when its wall (suddenly) opened (with noise) and the Syeda -asws entered into the Kabah and there came (to this world) Amir ul-Momineen -asws . [6] Imam Ali -asws (the first Shia Divine Leader) left this world on the twenty-first of the month of Ramadan on Sunday night aged 63 years old.

Ali Amir Al-Momineen -asws lived for thirty years after the death of the Holy Prophet -saww . Prophet Mohammed -saww married Syeda Khadija -asws after reaching adulthood. Allah -asws blessed them -asws with a daughter, Syeda Fatimah -asws . Syeda Khadija -asws left this world one year before the Prophet -saww migrated to Madinah. Syed Abu Talib -asws who brought up Holy Prophet -saww and protected him -saww from ‘Mushraqeen’ [7] of Makkah also left this world shortly in the same year.

When Rasool Allah’s -saww dear wife and loving uncle -asws , who had been supporting and protecting him -saww from non-believers of Makkah, left the world, so it became very difficult for the Prophet -saww to live in Makkah. He -saww became extremely sad and prayed to Allah -azwj . Allah -azwj then Sent him -saww the Message to ‘leave the town, the town of the unjust people’; after Abu Talib -asws , there was no one in Makkah to support him -saww .

This is why he -saww was Commanded to migrate to Medina. Events after the migration to Medina are referred to as ‘after hijra, AH’ and before this event, historians refer to an event as ‘before hijra, BH’ or in accordance with the Year of Elephant. Rasool Allah (Prophet Mohammed -saww ), as a Prophet, remained in Makkah for 13 years after receiving Divine Commands (through Angel Jibraeel -as to announce his -saww Prophet-hood) as the Rasool Allah -saww .

Thereafter, he -saww moved to Medina where he -saww lived for ten years.