21 Ramadan
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21 Ramadan is the twenty-first day of the ninth month (Ramadan) of the Islamic calendar.
In the Lunar Hijri calendar, this day is the 257th day of the year.
- 40 AH – Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Imam of Shiites and the fourth Caliph of Sunnis[1][2][3][4]
- 726 AH - Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman dynasty[5][6]
- 1104 AH - Al-Hurr al-Amili, a Shia scholar and Faqih, author of Wasa'il al-Shia[7][8]
- 1028 AH - Seyyed Majed Hosseini Bahrani,[9] a Shia scholar, Faqih and poet[10][11]
- Moses - Prophet of the Israelites (according to the narrations)[12][13]
- Joshua - Moses' assistant and his successor (according to the narrations)[13][14]
Events
- 40 AH - The beginning of the caliphate of Hasan ibn Ali, the older son of Ali and Fatimah, and a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the second Shi'i Imam[15][16][17]
- 40 AH - The allegiance of the people of Kufa to Hasan ibn Ali for the caliphate[18][19][20][21]
- 40 AH - Retribution of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam, the killer of Ali (1st Imam of Shia)[22][23][24][25]
- The day of the revelation of the Quran, holy book of Islam (according to persian narrations)[26][27][28][29][30]