19 Ramadan

19 Ramadan is the nineteenth day of the ninth month (Ramadan) of the Islamic calendar.

In the Lunar Hijri calendar, this day is the 255th day of the year.

Events

• 40 AH – Ali ibn Abi Talib (1st Shi'i Imam) was wounded with the sword of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam in the morning during Fajr prayer, Kufa
• 570 AH – Battle of the Horns of Hama, an Ayyubid victory over the Zengids, which left Saladin in control of Damascus, Baalbek, and Homs
• The revelation of the whole of Quran to the heart of the Islam Prophet Muhammad (according to the narrations)

Deaths

• 556 AH – Tala'i ibn Ruzzik, minister of Fatimid Caliphate, Arab Egyptian poet
• 665 AH - Abu Shama Makdisi, Syrian Sunni Qāriʾ, FaqÄ«h, historian and writer
• 832 AH - Ghiyāth al-DÄ«n JamshÄ«d KāshanÄ«, a Persian astronomer and mathematician
• 1431 AH – Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih, an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja and professor of Qom Seminary

Holidays and observances

• The first Qadr Night of Ramadan according to Shiites, holding an official nightlife worship ceremony called Ehya night in Iran

See also

• 21 Ramadan
• 23 Ramadan
• 13 Rajab

References