Arba'een
Arba'een (
Arabic: الأربعين, "forty"),
Chehlom (
Persian: چهلم,
Urdu: چہلم, "the fortieth [day]") or
Qırxı,
İmamın Qırxı (
Azerbaijani:
امامین قیرخی, "the fortieth of Imam") is a Muslim religious observance that occurs
forty days after the
Day of Ashura. It commemorates the
martyrdom of
Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of
Muhammad, who was killed on the 10th day of the month of
Muharram.
Imam Husayn ibn Ali and 72 companions were killed by
Yazid I's army in the
Battle of Karbala in 61 AH (680 CE). Writing in forty batches[
clarification needed] has become a tradition among Islamic scholars.
The reason is the famous saying of Muhammad: "On the day of judgment, among my people, God will consider whoever memorized forty Hadiths as an erudite man". In this regard, numerous Islamic scholars have gathered precious collections that each consists of forty sayings, Hadiths, quoted from the prophet and the following Imams. According to
al-Jizzini, the primary martyr, he, too, has written his book
Al-Arbaʿūn ḥadīth to practice this narrative of the prophet. Arba'een or forty days is also the usual length of mourning after the death of a family member or loved one in many Muslim traditions. Arba'een is one of the largest pilgrimage gatherings on Earth, in which up to 45 million people go to the city of
Karbala in
Iraq.
It included mostly Shia then Sunni pilgrimages and Christians, Yazidis etc in minority visitted Imam Hosein's holy shrine in the Arbaeen day.