Sha'ban
Sha'ban is the eighth month of the Islamic calendar. It is the month of "separation", so called because the pagan Arabs used to disperse in search of water.
The fifteenth night of this month is known as the "Night of Records". However, observance of this day is disputed.
Sha'ban is the last lunar month before Ramadan, and so Muslims determine in it when the first day of Ramadan fasting will be.
In the post-Tanzimat Ottoman Empire context, the word was, in French, the main language of diplomacy and a common language among educated and among non-Muslim subjects, spelled as Cha'ban. The current Turkish spelling today is Şaban.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'ban migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start and end dates for Sha'ban, based on the Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia, are:
Islamic events
- 01 Sha'ban, birth of Zaynab bint Ali
- 03 Sha'ban, birth of Husayn ibn Ali
- 04 Sha'ban, birth of Abbas ibn Ali
- 05 Sha'ban, birth of Ali ibn Husayn
- 05 Sha'ban, death of Fizza, the hand-maiden of Fatimah
- 07 Sha'ban, birth of Qasim ibn Hasan
- 11 Sha'ban, birth of Ali al-Akbar ibn Husayn
- 11 Sha'ban 1293 AH, Abdulhamid II became sultan/caliph of the Ottoman Empire
- 15 Sha'ban, holiday known as Laylat al-Bara'at or Nisfu Sha'ban; birth of Muhammad al-Mahdi
- 21 Sha'ban, passing away of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar
- 22 Sha'ban 1314 AH, death of Muhammad Usman Damani
- 23 Sha'ban 492 AH, Jerusalem was conquered in the First Crusade
- 27 Sha'ban 1313 AH, Death of Sayyad Laal Shah Hamdani
