Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn
Abd-Allah ibn al-Husayn (), also known as
Ali al-Asghar (), was the youngest son of
Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of
Muhammad and the third
Shia Imam. A young child, likely an infant, he was killed in the
Battle of Karbala in 680
CE, alongside his father, family members, and a small number of supporters, all of whom were massacred by the forces of the
Umayyad caliph
Yazid (), who first surrounded them for some days and cut off their access to the nearby river
Euphrates. Abd-Allah is commemorated in
Shia Islam as the quintessential symbol of the innocent victim.
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