Historical Anniversaries of Rajab

Rajab 1

57 AH - Birth of Imam al-Baqir (a) (according to a report) (May 13, 677)
1099 AH - Death of Aqa Husayn Khawansari (1688)

Rajab 2

212 AH - Birth of Imam al-Hadi (a) (according to a report) (October 1, 827)
440 AH - Demise of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (December 17, 1048)

Rajab 3

254 AH - Martyrdom of Imamm al-Hadi (a) (July 1, 868)
1434 AH - Demise of Sayyid Muhammad 'Izz al-Din Husayni Zanjani (2014)

Rajab 4

587 AH - Demise of Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi known as al-Shaykh al-Ishraq (August 4, 1191)
1327 AH - Demise of Mulla 'Ali 'Aliyari (1909)
1371 AH - Demise of al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin al-'Amili (1952)

Rajab 5

244 AH - Martyrdom of Ibn Sikkit by al-Mutawakkil al-'Abbasi (October 21, 858)
1379 AH - Demise of Sayyid 'Ali Yathribi Kashani (1960)

Rajab 6

1421 AH - Demise of Husayn Taqawi Ishtihardi (2000)

Rajab 7

183 AH - Martyrdom of Imam al-Kazim (a) (according to a report) (August 18, 799)
1341 AH - Demise of Nur al-Din Iraqi (1923)

Rajab 8

1033 AH - Birth of al-Shaykh al-Hurr al-'Amili (April 26, 1624)
1033 AH - Martyrdom of Sayyid 'Abd Allah Bihbahani (1910)
1428 AH - Demise of 'Abd al-Karim Haqshinas (2007)

Rajab 9

1308 AH - Demise of Muhammad Hasan Al Yasin (1891)

Rajab 10

195 AH - Birth of Imam al-Jawad (a) (April 12, 811)
1366 AH - Demise of Mirza Baqir Qadi Tabrizi (1947)

Rajab 12

32 AH - Demise of al-'Abbas b. 'Abd al-Muttalib (February 19, 653)
36 AH - Chossing Kufa as the capital city by Imam 'Ali (a) (January 7, 657)
60 AH - Death of Mu'awiya b. Abu Sufyan (April 21, 680)
1228 AH - Demise of al-Shaykh Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita' (July 11, 1813)
1381 AH - Demise of Murtada Chihrigani Anzabi (1961)

Rajab 13

23 BH - Birth of Imam 'Ali (a) (October 11, 600)
1327 AH - Demise of Shaykh Fadl Allah Nuri (July 31, 1909)
1344 AH - Birth of 'Abd al-Karim Musawi Ardabili (1926)

Rajab 14

2 AH - Sariyya of 'Abd Allah b. Jahsh the first encounter of Muslims with the polytheists of Mecca (January 14, 624)
279 AH - Death of al-Mu'tamid al-'Abbasi the murderer of Imam al-'Askari (a) (892)

Rajab 15

3 BH - Exit of the Prophet (s) and Banu Hashim from the sanction in Shi'b Abi Talib (March 11, 619)
2 AH - Change of the Qibla (January 15, 624)
62 AH - Demise of Lady Zaynab (a) (April 2, 682)
148 AH - Martyrdom of Imam al-Sadiq (a) according to some reports (September 10, 765)
1380 AH - Demise of 'Ali Akbar Allahiyan Tunikabuni (January 3, 1961)
1428 AH - Demise of Ayatullah 'Ali Mishkini (July 30, 2007)

Rajab 16

(23 BH) - Exit of Fatima bt. Asad from Ka'ba, three days after the birth of Imam 'Ali (a) (October 14, 599)

Rajab 17

218 AH - Death of al-Ma'mun, Abbasid Caliph (August 12, 833)
1121 AH - Demise of Sulayman al-Bahrani (September 22, 1709)
1416 AH - Demise of Mirza Kazim Najafi Tabrizi (December 10,1995)

Rajab 18

10 AH - Demise of Ibrahim son of the Prophet Muhammad (s) (October 23, 631)
1220 AH - Birth of Mulla Muhammad Ashrafi Mazandarani (October 12, 1805)

Rajab 19

9 AH - Battle of Tabuk (November 4, 630)
930 AH - Demise of Shah Isma'il Safawi and beginning of the rule of Shah Tahmasb (June 2, 1524)
1383 AH - Demise of Muhammad Khalisizadih (1963)
1422 AH - Demise of Mujtaba Hajakhund (2001)

Rajab 20

13 AH - Battle of Yarmuk (September 22, 634)

Rajab 21

Rajab 22

1228 AH - Demise of Ja'far Kashif al-Ghita' (July 21, 1813)
1246 AH - Demise of Mulla 'Ali Nuri (January 6, 1831)
1431 AH - Demise of al-Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Fadl Allah (2010)
1434 AH - Demise of Sayyid Jalal al-Din Tahiri Isfahani (June 1, 2013)

Rajab 23

41 AH - Attempts to assassinate Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba (a) in Mada'in, during the war with Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyan ([November 25]], 661)
183 AH - Imam al-Kazim (a) was poisoned in the prison (September 3, 799)
1299 AH - Demise of Sayyid Husayn Kuhkamara'i (1882)

Rajab 24

1212 AH - Demise of al-Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi Bahr al-'Ulum (1798)

Rajab 25

183 AH - Martyrdom of Imam al-Kazim (a) (September 5, 799)
1334 AH - Martyrdom of 'Abd al-Karim 'Idgahi Shahidi (May 28, 1916)
1378 AH - Demise of Muhammad Jawad Safi Gulpaygani (1959)
1404 AH - Martyrdom of Mahdi Shahabadi (1984)
1406 AH - Demise of 'Abbas 'Ali Islami (1986)
1422 AH - Demise of Abu l-Fadl Khwansari Najafi (October 13, 2001)

Rajab 26

3 BH - Demise of Abu Talib (according to a report) (March 22, 619)
1314 AH - Demise of Muhammad Baqir Fisharaki (1896)
1419 AH - Demise of Muhammad Taqi Ja'fari (1998)

Rajab 27

13 BH - Bi'that of the prophet (s) (July 9, 610)
1265 AH - Demise of Ahmad Mujtahid Azarbayijani (June 18, 1849)

Rajab 28

Holding the first prayer in Islam
60 AH - Exit of Imam al-Husayn (a) from Medina to Mecca (May 7, 680)
1337 AH - Demise of Sayyid Muhammad Kazim Yazdi (author of al-'Urwat al-Wuthqa) (1919)
1370 AH - Deimse of Muhammad Rida Al Yasin (May 5, 1951)

Rajab 29

3 BH - Demise of Lady Khadija (a) (March 25, 619)
150 AH - Demise of Abu Hanifa (Nu'man b. Thabit) (September 3, 767)
240 AH - Demise of Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad b. Idris (al-Shafi'i) (December 28, 854)
1395 AH - Demise of Sayyid Muhammad Hadi Milani (August 7, 1975)