Umar ibn Ali (), was one of the children of

Ali ibn Abi Talib Ali ibn Abi Talib (; ) was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from until Assassination of Ali, his assassination in 661, as well as the first imamate in Shia doctrine, Shia Imam. He was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muha ...

who accompanied his brother,

Husayn ibn Ali Husayn ibn Ali (; 11 January 626 – 10 October 680 Common Era, CE) was a social, political and religious leader in early medieval Arabia. The grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and an Alids, Alid (the son of Ali ibn Abu Talib ibn Abd a ...

, to

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and was killed on the day of

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. There is a disagreement about whether his name was Umar or Amr al-Asghar (). It is said that except for him, Ali had another son called ''Amr al-Akbar'', whose mother was Umm Habib al-Sahba, and was not present in the event of Karbala.

Lineage

Some Sunni sources have mentioned Amr as Amr al-Akbar whose tekonym was Abu al-Qasim or Abu Hafs. Some historical source reported the name of his mother as Al-Sahba (Umm Habib), daughter of Rabi'a al-Taghlibi. Some others have mentioned her name as Layla bt. Mas'ud al-Darami. The Sunni scholar al-Fakhr al-Razi mentioned that Umar was the youngest child of Imam Ali.

In the Battle of Karbala

It is reported that he made war cries on the Day of

and attacked the enemy. He attacked Zahr, the killer of his brother and killed him. The Sunni jurist Akhtab Khwarazm reported him being martyred after his brother

Abu Bakr Abd Allah ibn Abi Quhafa (23 August 634), better known by his ''Kunya (Arabic), kunya'' Abu Bakr, was a senior Sahaba, companion, the closest friend, and father-in-law of Muhammad. He served as the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, ruli ...

. It is said that first, his horse fell down and then they killed him.{{Cite book, last=al-Muwaffaq b. Ahmad Akhtabb Khwarizm, url=http://lib.eshia.ir/10509/2/0, title=Maqtal al-Husayn, publisher=Anwar al-Huda, year=1997, volume=2, pages=28–29

References

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