Rabiʽ al-Thani

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Ibn Arabi, a muslim scholar, died in this month
Month number:	4
Number of days:	29-30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent)
Significant day(s):	Birth of Hasan al-Askari, Death of ibn Arabi

Rabiʽ al-Thani (Arabic: رَبِيع ٱلثَّانِي‎, Rabīʿ ath-Thānī) also known as Rabiʽ al-Akhir (رَبِيع ٱلْآخِر, Rabīʿ al-ʾĀkhir), is the fourth month in the Islamic calendar.

In the Ottoman Empire days, the name of this month in Ottoman Turkish was Rèbi' ul-aher, with the Turkish abbreviation Rè,^[1] or Reb.-ul-Akh. in western European languages.^[2] In modern Turkish it is Rebiülahir or Rebiülsani.

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 tropical year, Rabī' al-Thānī migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start and end dates for Rabī' al-Thānī are as follows (based on the Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia^[3]):

Islamic events[]

• 08 or 10 Rabī' al-Thānī, the birth of the Eleventh Imam Hasan al-Askari
• 10 or 12 Rabī’ al-Thānī, death of Fatimah bint Musa
• 11 of Rabī’ al-Thānī, death of Abdul-Qadir Gilani, the Sufi sheikh who is believed to be the "saint of saints"
• 15 of Rabi' al-Thani, death of Habib Abu Bakr al-Haddad
• 27 of Rabi' al-Thani, death of Ahmad Sirhindi
• 28 or 29 of Rabī’ al-Thānī, death of ibn Arabi, the great philosopher from Spain who died and rests in Damascus, Syria.^[4]

References[]

External links[]

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