Abū Bakr ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī () was the son of

Hasan ibn Ali Hasan ibn Ali (; 2 April 670) was an Alids, Alid political and religious leader. The eldest son of Ali and Fatima and a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Hasan briefly ruled as Rashidun caliphate, Rashidun caliph from January 661 unt ...

. He went to Karbala with his uncle

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, and was killed in the

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on the day of

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Lineage

Abu Bakr was a son of

. Some believe that he and his brother Qasim were both sons of Ramla.

On the day of Ashura

Abu al-Faraj considers Abu Bakr's martyrdom to have occurred before that of Qasim. Abu al-Faraj quotes from Al-Mada'ini, who through his chain of transmitters quotes from Abu Mikhnaf, and from Sulayman bin Rashid that Abu Bakr was martyred by an arrow shot fired by Abd Allah ibn Uqba al-Ghanawi. But Al-Tabari, Ibn Athir, Shaykh Mufid and others relate his martyrdom as occurring after that of Qasim. Abu Bakr's name is mentioned in Ziyarat al-Nahiya al-Muqaddasa and Ziyarat Rajabiyya and his murderer has been cursed.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abu Bakr ibn Hasan bin Ali Husayn ibn Ali Hussainiya 680 deaths Year of birth unknown People killed at the Battle of Karbala Family of Muhammad Sons of caliphs