[^1]: Azan (Announcement) is the Muslim call to the ritual...

[^1]: Azan (Announcement) is the Muslim call to the ritual prayers [^2]: Iqama is the prefatory statements of the ritual prayers [^3]: See Qamar Bani Hashim, 2/5 and Anees ush-Shia [^4]: However, some historians have reported another narration about the naming of Abu’l-Fadhl al-’Abbas: Umm-ul-Banin swaddled her baby with a white piece of cloth and handed him to his father who held the Islamic ceremonies of newborns, kissed him, passed his hand on the baby’s eyes, ears, and mouth - so that the baby would see, hear, and say nothing but the right.

Then, asked the mother, “Have you chosen a name for him?” “We will never precede you in such a thing,” she said. The Imam (a) said, “Well then, I choose for him the name of my uncle, al-’Abbas.” He then embraced the baby to his chest, took the two small hands, and kissed them warmly while he was weeping.

He then said, “I predict these two hands will be cut!” See al-Kulbasi’s Al- Khassaiss ul-’Abbasiyya, 71-2 [^5]: Ibn-Manzhour is the compiler of the most famous Arabic-Arabic dictionary named Al-Ayn’ [^6]: See Ibn Manzhour’s al-Ayn, article: Al-’Abbas [^7]: See Muntaha al-Irab; article: al-’