Muqsit b. Zuhayr al-Taghlibi

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Muqsit b. Zuhayr al-Taghlibi
Companion ofImam Ali (a)Imam al-Husayn (a)
LineageTaghlib tribe
Wellknown RelativesKurdus b. Zuhayr al-TaghlibiQasit b. Zuhayr al-Taghlibi (his brothers)
Death/Martyrdom61/ 680, Battle of Karbala


Muqsiṭ b. Zuhayr b. Ḥarth al-Taghlibī (Arabic: مُقسِط بن زُهَیر بن حَرث التَغلِبی) was a companion of Imam Ali (a). He attended the three battles of Jamal, Siffin, and Nahrawan.[1] He was also a member of Imam al-Hasan's (a) military forces in Kufa.[2]

When Imam al-Husayn (a) entered Karbala, he and his brothers, Kurdus and Qasit, joined the Imam's (a) army overnight. He was martyred on the Day of 'Ashura.[3] It is said that he was one of the Martyrs of Karbala in the first attack of 'Umar b. Sa'd's army.

In Ziyarah al-Shuhada', his two brothers are mentioned:[4] "peace be upon Qasit and Kurdus the sons of Zuhayr al-Taghlibi", but Muqsit is not mentioned.

Notes

  1. Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn, p. 200.
  2. Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn, p. 200.
  3. Samāwī, Ibṣār al-ʿayn, p. 200.
  4. Ibn Mashhadī, al-Mazār al-kabīr, p. 494; Shahīd al-Awwal, al-Mazar, p. 153; Majlisī, Biḥār al-anwār, vol. 98, p. 273.

References

  • Ibn Mashhadī, Muḥammad. Al-Mazār al-kabīr. Edited by Jawād Qayyūmī. 1st edition. Qom: Daftar-i Intishārāt-i Islāmī affiliated to Jāmiʿa-yi Mudarrisīn-i Ḥawza-yi ʿIlmīyya-yi Qom, 1419 AH.
  • Ibn Shahrāshūb, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī. Manāqib Āl Abī Ṭālib. Qom: Nashr-i ʿAllāma, 1379 Sh.
  • Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir al-. Biḥār al-anwār. 2nd edition. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 1403 AH.
  • Samāwī, Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir al-. Ibṣār al-ʿayn fī anṣār al-Ḥusayn (a). Qom: Dānishgāh-i Shahīd Maḥallātī, 1419 AH.
  • Shahīd al-Awwal, Muḥammad b. Makkī. Al-Mazar. Edited by Madrisa-yi Imām Mahdī (a), Muḥammad Bāqir Muwaḥḥidī Iṣfahānī. 1st edition. Qom: Madrisa-yi Imām Mahdī (a), 1410 AH.