Day 3

The lesson

1. When the Prophet joined the Emigrants and the Helpers in brotherhood, he took Ali as his own brother and told him: You are my brother in this world and the hereafter (A'yan al-Shi'a of al-Amin).
2. After Badr, at twenty-five, he married Sayyida Fatima (Tarikh al-Tabari; Maqatil al-Talibiyyin), after the Prophet had turned away other suitors saying he awaited revelation about her (Bihar al-Anwar; al-Mu'jam al-Kabir of al-Tabarani). Reports differ on the date: 1 Dhu l-Hijja 2 AH (Masar al-Shi'a of al-Mufid), or Shawwal, or 21 Muharram. Their children were al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Zaynab and Umm Kulthum, and al-Muhsin, lost before his birth (al-Irshad; Manaqib Al Abi Talib of Ibn Shahrashub).
3. At Badr in 2 AH he killed al-Walid ibn Utba in single combat and many of the chiefs of Quraysh (Tarikh al-Tabari); the count differs: twenty-two according to al-Waqidi, thirty-six according to al-Mufid. At Uhud he was among the few who did not flee and defended the Prophet; a voice was heard: There is no youth but Ali, and no sword but Dhu l-Fiqar, and the Prophet said: I am from Ali and he is from me (al-Kafi 8:110; al-Kamil of Ibn al-Athir).

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