2025: January 12 (12 Rajab 1446 AH)

 January 12

Events

  • 1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar began a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
  • 1970 – Biafra capitulated, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
  • 1991 – Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorized the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. 
  • 2006 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, killed at least 362 Muslim pilgrims. 

The Stoning of the Devil occurs during the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. During the ritual, Muslim pilgrims throw pebbles at three walls (formerly pillars), called jamarāt, in the city of Mina just east of Mecca. It is one of a series of ritual acts that must be performed in the Hajj. It is a symbolic reenactment of Ibrahim's hajj, where he stoned three pillars representing the temptation to disobey God.


On Eid al-Adha (the 10th day of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah), pilgrims must strike one of the three jamraat (the Big Jamaraat or Al-Jamrah Al-Aqaba) with seven pebbles. After the stoning is completed on the day of Eid, every pilgrim must cut or shave their hair. On each of the following two days, they must hit each of the three walls with seven pebbles, going in order from east to west. Thus, at least 49 pebbles are needed for the ritual, more if some throws miss. Some pilgrims stay at Mina for an additional day, in which case they must again stone each wall seven times. The pebbles used in the stoning are traditionally gathered at Muzdalifah, a plain southeast of Mina, on the night before the first throwing, but can also be collected at Mina.

  • 2015 - Government raids killed 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon. 
  • 2016 - Ten people were killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. 

Births

  • 1889 - Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Indian Pakistani spiritual leader (d. 1965)
  • 1905 - Nihal Atsiz, Turkish author, poet, and philosopher (d. 1975)
  • 1936 - Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (d. 2016)
  • 1938 - Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (d. 2013)
  • 1958 - Christiane Amanpour English-born Iranian American journalist
  • 1993 - Zayn Malik, English singer-songwriter

Deaths

  • 914 - Ahmad Samani, Samanid emir
  • 1967 - Burhan Asaf Belge, Turkish diplomat (b. 1887)
  • 2010 - Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Consolidated Contractors Company (b. 1920)

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12 Rajab

Births

  • Muhammad al-Taqi

Abu al-Husayn Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Isma'il (b. c. 790 CC – d. 840 CC), commonly known as Muhammad al-Taqi (lit. 'Muhammad the pious'), was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and was the ninth of the Isma'ili Imams, succeeding his father, Ahmad al-Wafi (d. 828). Like his father, he lived primarily in Salamiyah, and Abd Allah ibn Maymun al-Qaddah, the chief missionary (da'i), continued to serve as the hijab (lit. 'cover') for him. Known by the title Sahib al-Rasaʾil (lit. 'lord of the epistles'), al-Taqi is said to have prepared with his followers an encyclopedic text called the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity (Rasaʾil Ikhwan al-ṣafa). He died in 840 in Salamiyah and was succeeded by his son al-Husayn.

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