Safar is the second month in the
Islamic calendarThe Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar or Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar based on 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days, used to date events in many Muslim countries , and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which...
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سفر safar inf. n. fr. سفر 'to go forth to journey' : (???, page 662)
part. adj. & s.m. Travelled; experienced;—one who has travelled, a traveller:—safar karnā, v.n. To go on a journey, to travel; (met.) to depart this life, to die:—safar-nāma, s.m. Account of a journey, travels:—as-safar wasīlatuʼz-z̤afar, Travel produces advantage:—baḥrī-safar or daryāʼī-safar, s.m.
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Safar is the second month in the
Islamic calendarThe Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar or Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar based on 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days, used to date events in many Muslim countries , and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which...
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سفر safar inf. n. fr. سفر 'to go forth to journey' : (???, page 662)
part. adj. & s.m. Travelled; experienced;—one who has travelled, a traveller:—safar karnā, v.n. To go on a journey, to travel; (met.) to depart this life, to die:—safar-nāma, s.m. Account of a journey, travels:—as-safar wasīlatuʼz-z̤afar, Travel produces advantage:—baḥrī-safar or daryāʼī-safar, s.m. Sea-voyage, voyage.
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The
Islamic calendarThe Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar or Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar based on 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days, used to date events in many Muslim countries , and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which...
is a
lunar calendarA lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the moon phase. The only widely used purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar or Hijri calendar, whose year always consists of 12 lunar months...
, and months begin when the first crescent of a
new moonIn astronomical terminology, the phrase new moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon, in its monthly orbital motion around Earth, lies between Earth and the Sun, and is therefore in conjunction with the Sun as seen from Earth...
is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar calendar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Safar migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start and end dates for Safar are as follows (all future dates are estimates):
- 1426 AH – First day: March 12, 2005; last day: April 9, 2005
- 1427 AH – First day: March 2, 2006; last day: March 30, 2006
- 1428 AH – First day: February 19, 2007; last day: March 19, 2007
- 1429 AH – First day: February 9, 2008; last day: March 8, 2008
Islamic Events
- 01 Safar, prisoners of Karbalā
The Battle of Karbala took place on Muharram 10, in the year 61 of the Islamic calendar in Karbala, in present day Iraq...
entered YazidYazid may refer to:* Yazid ibn Abu Sufyan , brother of the early Umayyad leader Muawiyah I, and companion of Muhammad*Yazid I — Yazid ibn Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan , second Umayyad Caliph upon succeeding his father Muawiyah...
's Palace in Syria
- 07 Safar, birth of Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, Mūsā' al-Kādhim
Mūsá ibn Ja‘far al-Kāżim / al-Kādhim was the seventh of the Twelve Imams. He was the son of the sixth Imam, and his mother was Hamidah Khātūn, a student and former slave of African descent...
- 09 Safar, victory to Ali
' was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and ruled over the Islamic Caliphate from 656 to 661...
in the Battle of NahrawanBattle of Nahrawan was a battle between Ali ibn Abi Talib and the Kharijites.After the unsatisfactory conclusion to the Battle of Siffin, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib returned with his army back to Kufa on the 13th of Safar 37 A.H...
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- 13 Safar, death of Sakina bint Hussain, youngest daughter of Hussain ibn Ali and a prisoner of Karbalā
The Battle of Karbala took place on Muharram 10, in the year 61 of the Islamic calendar in Karbala, in present day Iraq...
- 17 Safar, death of the Twelver Shī‘ah Imām, ‘Alī al-Ridhā
- 20 Safar, Arba'een
Arba'een , or Chehlum, as it is known by Urdu and Persian-speaking Muslims in Central Asia and south-east Asia, is a Shi'a Muslim religious observation that occurs 40 days after the Day of Ashura, the commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad which falls...
is observed by Shī‘ah MuslimsShia Islam , is the second largest denomination of Islam, after Sunni Islam. The followers of Shia Islam are called Shi'as or Shi'ites....
, the fortieth day after the Day of ‘Āshūrā'.
- 28 Safar, death of Muhammad
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullāh , is the founder of the religion of Islam [ إِسْلامْ ] and is regarded by Muslims as a messenger and prophet of , the last and the greatest law-bearer in a series of Islamic prophets as taught by the...
and Hasan ibn ‘AlīAl-Hasan ibn ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib was the grandson of Muhammad, son of ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib and Fātimah al-Zahraā...
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