Shahrbanu

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Shahrbanu (Persian: شهربانو; "Lady of the Land") was a wife of Husayn, the third Shia Imam and grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the mother of his successor, Ali al-Sajjad. She was a Sassanid princess and a daughter of Yazdegerd III, the last Sassanid Emperor of Persia. Shahrbanu has also been referred to with several other names by different writers, such as: Shaharbānawayh, Shāhzanān, Shāhjahān, Jahānshāh, Salāma, Salāfa, Ghazāla, and Sādira. According to Islamic traditions, Shahrbanu was captured during the Muslim conquest of Persia and brought to Medina, where she was given the choice of a husband and chose Husayn. She gave birth to Ali al-Sajjad, who later succeeded his father as the fourth Imam in Shia Islam. Shia traditions state that she died shortly after giving birth to Ali al-Sajjad. Traditions hold that she is buried at the Bibi Shahrbanu Shrine in Rey, Iran. Her historicity is uncertain. Islamic writers, such as al-Mubarrad, Ya'qubi and al-Kulayni, began alluding...

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