Shawdhab Mawla Shakir ( ar, شَوذَب مَولیٰ شاکِر) was among Husayn ibn Ali's companion who was martyred at the

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Biography

Shawdhab mentioned as the servant of Shakir ibn Abd Allah al-Hamdani al-Shakiri in some resource and others mentioned him as the servant of Abis ibn Abi Shabib al-Shakiri. He was a memorizer of hadiths and transmitted hadiths from Ali ibn Abi Talib.

Companion of Husayn ibn Ali

He and Abis ibn Abi Shabib al-Shakiri delivered the letter of

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from

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to Husayn in

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and accompanied him from Mecca to Karbala.

On the Day of Ashura

Abis ibn Abi Shabib al-Shakiri came to Shawdhab, who was his relative, and said, “What is your heart’s desire”? He replied, “What do I desire? I desire to fight alongside you, while defending the grandson of the

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, until I am martyred.” Abis replied, "and nothing else was expected from you. If I had anyone dearer than you today, I would send him to the battlefield before I would go." He was martyred in the afternoon of Ashura after Hanzala ibn As'ad al-Shibami.

References

{{Reflist Husayn ibn Ali Hussainiya 680 deaths People killed at the Battle of Karbala