Day 1

The lesson

1. The son of Abu Talib, son of Abd al-Muttalib, son of Hashim, and of Fatima bint Asad (al-Irshad of al-Shaykh al-Mufid); the first child of Banu Hashim on both his father's and his mother's side (Da'irat al-Ma'arif-i Farsi). The cousin and son-in-law of the Messenger of God, the husband of Sayyida Fatima, the father of Imam al-Hasan and Imam al-Husayn, and the first Imam; every later Imam is his descendant.
2. Born inside the Ka'ba in Mecca on Friday, 13 Rajab, in the thirtieth year after the Year of the Elephant (600 CE) (al-Irshad of al-Shaykh al-Mufid). His birth in the Ka'ba is transmitted by Shia scholars such as al-Shaykh al-Saduq, al-Sayyid al-Radi, al-Shaykh al-Mufid and Ibn Shahrashub, and by Sunni scholars such as al-Hakim al-Nishaburi, al-Ganji al-Shafi'i and al-Mas'udi (al-Ghadir of al-Amini). The reports say the wall of the Ka'ba opened for his mother, and she came out on the fourth day holding her son.
3. When famine struck Mecca he was six, and the Prophet took him into his own house (al-Sira al-Nabawiyya of Ibn Hisham). Imam Ali recalled: He would bring me to his chest and I would sleep in his bed, so close that I could smell his scent; he would chew food and feed me; he found no lie in my speech and no fault in my actions (Nahj al-Balagha, sermon 192).

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