Timeline of Ali's life

* 17 March 599 coincided with Thirteenth of Rajab, 24 BH: Birth of Ali ibn Abi Talib in the Ka'ba, in the city of Mecca.
* 610: Ali converted to Islam soon after the first revelation of the Quran.
* 613: Yawm al-Inzar: Muhammad invited Banu Hashim to Islam but just Ali accept his call.
* 617-619: Meccan boycott of the HashemitesAshraf (2005), pp.300-302]
* 619:Year of Sorrow:Death of Abu Talib, Ali's father.
* September 622: Laylat al-mabit: Ali risked his life by sleeping in Muhammad's bed to impersonate him and thwart an assassination plot, so that Muhammad could escape from mecca in safety and migrate to Medina.
* 622: Ali migrated with his mother, Fatima Zahra, Muhammad's daughter and two other women.
* 622 or 623:The prophet chose him as his brother.cite encyclopedia | title = Ali ibn Abitalib | encyclopedia = Encyclopedia Iranica | accessdate = 2007-10-25|url=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v1f8/v1f8a043.html]
* 623: Ali married with Fatima Zahra, Muhammad's daughter.cite encyclopedia|last=Nasr |first=Seyyed Hossein | authorlink=Seyyed Hossein Nasr | title=Ali |year=| encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica Online | accessdate=2007-10-12 |location=|publisher= Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005712/Ali]
* 624:
**March 17: Battle of Badr: Ali first distinguished himself as a warrior and killed about 20 to 22 pagans.
**Expulsion of the Bani Qainuqa Jews from Medina.

* 625:
** Birth of Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam.
** Battle of Uhud: Ali destroyed the standard bearers and when the army of Islam was defeated and most of the Muslims had fled Ali was one of the few Muslims who defended Muhammad.
** Expulsion of Banu Nadir Jews from Medina.

* 626:
** Birth of Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia Imam.
** Expedition of Banu Mustaliq.

* 627
** Battle of the Trench: Ali ibn Abi Taleb triumphed in combat over Arabs' hero, Amr ibn Wodd, and killed him.
** Killing and enslavement of Banu Quraiza.

* 628
** Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
** Battle of Khaybar: Ali was the standard-bearer and conqueror of the Khaybar's castle.
** Birth of Zaynab bint Ali

* 629
** Participating in The first pilgrimage with the Prophet.
** Expedition to Battle of Mu'tah and fight with Byzantine Empire

* 630
** Conquest of Mecca:Ali was the standard-bearer.
** Battle of Hunayn
** Battle of Autas
** Siege of Ta'if
** Operation against Banu Tayy

* 631
** Mubahela with the Christian of Najran
** Expedition against Banu Rumla
** Operation against Banu Zubuda
** Mission to Yemen

* 632
** Participation in Farewell pilgrimage at Mecca.
** Event of Ghadir Khumm
** Death of Muhammad
** Abu Bakr assumes power as the first Rashiduncaliph
** Death of Fatima Zahra, Ali's wife.

* 644: Umar, the second Rashidun caliph, was assassinated. Ali was one of the electoral council to choose the third caliph
* 648: Birth of Al-Abbas ibn Ali

* 656:
** Siege and assassination of Uthman, the third Rashidun caliph.
** Election of Ali as the fourth Rashidun caliph.
** Beginning of the First Fitna(first Islamic civil war).Lewis (1991), p.215]
** Battle of Bassorah

* 657:Ali shifted the capital of Rashidun empire from Medina to Kufa in Iraq.
* May-July 657: Battle of Siffin

*658:
**The Arbitration
** Revolt of Kharijits.
** July 658: Battle of Nahrawan

*659:
**Ali's governor of Egypt was defeated and Egypt was conquered by 'Amr ibn al-'As
**Revolt of Khurrit ibn Rashid
**Muawiyah I plundered Iraq

*660:
**Muawiyah plundered Hijaz and Yemen, but later withdrew
**Muawiyah I declared himself as caliph in Damascus

* 28 February 661 coincided with Twenty-first of Ramadan: Ali dead in Kufa and buried in Najaf two days after he was struck by Abd-al-Rahman ibn Muljam in the Mosque of Kufa.

ee also

*History of Islam
*Timeline of Islamic history
*Muhammad before Medina
*Muhammad in Medina
*Muhammad after the conquest of Mecca

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