Maqtal al-Husayn ( ar, , , The Murder Place of Husayn) is the title of various books written by different authors throughout the centuries which narrate the story of the

battle of Karbala The Battle of Karbala ( ar, مَعْرَكَة كَرْبَلَاء) was fought on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram in the year 61 AH of the Islamic calendar) between the army of the second Umayyad Caliph Yazid I and a small army led by Husayn ...

and the death of Husayn ibn Ali. They were first written in the eighth century.

Maqtal

Books recounting the death of revered Muslim individuals were composed in large numbers during the eighth and ninth centuries and even today among Muslims are defined as Maqtal.

List of famous Maqtals

* ''Maqtal al-Husayn'',

Ibn Sa'd Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī or simply Ibn Sa'd ( ar, ابن سعد) and nicknamed ''Scribe of Waqidi'' (''Katib al-Waqidi''), was a scholar and Arabian biographer. Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 C ...

died in 230 AH (845CE) * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'',

Baladhuri ʾAḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī ( ar, أحمد بن يحيى بن جابر البلاذري) was a 9th-century Muslim historian. One of the eminent Middle Eastern historians of his age, he spent most of his life in Baghdad and e ...

died in 283 AH (892 CE) * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'', Dinawari * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'',

Ibn A'tham Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī al-Kindī ( ar, أبو محمد أحمد بن أعثم الكوفي) was a 9th-century Arab Muslim historian, poet and preacher (''qāṣṣ'') active in the late 8th and early 9th centuries. He was a ...

died in 314AH (926-27 CE) Maqtals that have not survived: * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'',

Abi Mikhnaf Lut ibn Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Mikhnaf al-Azdi ( ar, لوط ابن يحيٰ ابن سعيد ابن مِخنَف الأزدي, Lūṭ ibn Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd ibn Mikhnaf al-Azdī), more commonly known by his '' kunya'' (epithet) Abu Mikhnaf ( ar, أ ...

died in 157 AH (774 CE) * ''Maqtal al-Husayn of Muhammad bin Amr'' Waqidi (d. 207 or 209 AH), a mention of which book has been made by

Ibn Nadim Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm ( ar, ابو الفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), also ibn Abī Ya'qūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly known by the ''nasab'' (patronymic) Ibn al-Nadīm ...

and

Yaqut al-Hamawi Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) ( ar, ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine Greek ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th-13th centuries). He is known for ...

* ''Maqtal al-Husayn'' that was written by Abu ‘Ubaydah Mu‘mmar bin Muthannà (d. 209 AH) and which was in the possession of Ibn Tawus (d. 664 AH) * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'' written by Nasr bin Muzaham Manqari (d. 212 AH). This maqtal has been mentioned in the works of Ibn Nadím and al-Najashi. * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'', Abi Ubayd Qasim bin Salim Hirawi (d. 224 AH) * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'', Abi al- Hasan Ali bin Muhammad Madaini (d. 224/225 AH) a mention of which has been made by Ibn Shahr Àshêb. * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'', Abdullah ibn Muhammad, known by his epithet of Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. 281 AH) * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'',

Ya'qubi ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim geographer and perhaps the first historian of world cul ...

who has made a brief reference to

in his book Tarikh had also written a separate book under the name Maqtal al-Husayn. * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'', Abi Abdullah Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Ghalabi (d. 298 AH) * ''Maqtal al-Husayn'', Abi Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Shahanshah Baghawi Baghdadi (d. 317 AH) had also written a book called Maqtal al-Husayn A Glance at the Sources on the Tragedy of ‘Àshêrà
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An English translation of Maqtal al-Husayn
by Abu Mikhnaf
English translation of Maqtal al-Husayn of 'Abd al-Razzaq al-MuqarramEnglish translation of Nafasul Mahmoom
by Sheikh Abbas Qummi
Arabic Accounts of al-Husayn's Martyrdom
by I.K.A Howard (Edinburg University)
A Glance at Historiography in Shi'ite Culture
by Rasul Ja'fariyan
Historiography During the Safawid EraMaqtal Works During the Safawid and Qajarid Eras
Battle of Karbala Cultural depictions of Husayn ibn Ali Islamic literature Shia literature Books about Husayn ibn Ali

Maqtal

List of famous Maqtals

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