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Today I thought I'd do something slightly different. We speak a lot about the

biographies of famous people, famous scholars, and almost invariably they

happen to be men. Today let's do a biography of a famous female in our

history, and a person who has left an interesting mark if you like an

interesting anecdote around her. And this is the great granddaughter of our

prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Not many people know about her

life and ties, but she is somebody that is well known in the books of history,

and she has gone through a number of tragedies and also left her mark as well.

Her name is Sukena, Bint Al Hussein, Ibn Ali, Ibn Abi Talib,

radiallahu ta'ala anhu. Sukena, Bint Al Hussein. So this is Hussein's daughter,

radiallahu anhu. Hussein, you all know, the grandson of the prophet, salallahu alayhi

wa sallam, and Hussein's daughter is Sukena. So in today's brief

Khatera, I'm going to give you some highlights of her life, and just a bit of an

academic note that we don't know that much about her life, and even some of the

details, there's sometimes, you know, two different opinions. So what I'm going to

say is one narrative. If you go to the books, you might find another opinion, but

for these Khateras, we just have to be at least one narrative. So Sukena, Bint Al Hussein,

in fact, even her birth and even the marriage of her parents is itself a story.

It has said that once Ali radiallahu anhu was sitting in the

measurements of Umarab al Khattab, Umarab al Khattab, and Ali was sitting with

Hassan and Hussein, and a man came into the gathering. Hassan and Hussein are young

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