Sha'ban

Sha'aban (Arabic: شعبان) is the eighth month of the Islamic calendar. This is the month of ‘separation’, so called because the pagan Arabs used to disperse in search of water. On the fifteenth night of this month falls the Shab-i-Barat: ‘The Night of Records’; some people think that on this night prophet Muhammad told his followers that Allah records all the deeds that the humans have to perform for the next year.

Timing

The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar calendar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Sha'aban migrates throughout the seasons. The start and end dates for Sha'aban are as follows (based on the Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia^[1]):

Islamic Events

• 01 Sha'aban, birth of Zaynab bint ‘Alī
• 03 Sha'aban, birth of Shī‘ah Imām, Husayn ibn ‘Alī
• 04 Sha'aban, birth of ‘Abbās ibn ‘Alī
• 05 Sha'aban, birth of Shī‘ah Imām, ‘Alī ibn Husayn
• 05 Sha'aban, death of Hazrat Fizza, the hand-maiden (Qaneez) of Fatimah
• 07 Sha'aban, birth of Qāsim ibn Hasan
• 11 Sha'aban, birth of ‘Alī al-Akbar
• 14 Sha'aban, night of prayer known as Shab-e-Barat observed by Muslims
• 15 Sha'aban, birth of the last Twelver Imām, Muhammad al-Mahdi

See also

• Islamic calendar
• Mid-Sha'ban

References

External links

• Islamic-Western Calendar Converter (Based on the Arithmetical or Tabular Calendar)