Major conflict680 CE
Battle of Karbala
Karbala · Iraq
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
On 10 October 680 an Umayyad army killed the Prophet's grandson Husayn ibn Ali and most of his small retinue at Karbala; the massacre triggered the Second Fitna and became the defining event of Shia Islam.
Belligerents2
- Umayyad Caliphate (Yazid I)
- Husayn ibn Ali and companions
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Karbala
- Britannica: Battle of Karbala
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 680 CE and opens this record.
Cite as: Battle of Karbala (680 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-karbala · Sources & methodology