IMPORTANT DAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
IN THE MUSLIM CALENDAR

Muharram
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
1st	Muslim New Year
1st	Sayyidina 'Umar Farooq	Madina Munawwarah
1st	Shaykh Shihabuddin Suhrawardi
1st	Al-Habib Sayyid Saleh bin 'Alawi Jamalil Layl	Lamu, Kenya
4th	Hadrat Hasan al-Basri	Basra, Iraq
9th	Sunnah meritorious fast
10th	Sayyidina Imam Husain and Shuhadaa-e-Kerbala	Kerbala, Iraq
10th	Sunnah meritorious fast
18th	Imam Zaynul 'Abideen Ali ibn Husain	Madina Munawwarah
28th	Al-Habib Said bin 'AbdAllah al-Beidh	Mambrui, Kenya
29th	Al Habib Ali bin Isa bin Abdulkader Alhadad	Shah Alam, Malaysia
Safar
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
9th	Al-Habib Sayyid 'Umar bin Ahmad bin Sumait	Comoro Islands
18th	Hadrat Data Ganj Baksh 'Ali al-Hujwiri	Lahore, Pakistan
25th	A'la Hadrat Imam Ahmed Raza Khan	Bareilly, India
28th	Sayyidina Imam Hasan	Madina Munawwarah
28th	Mujaddid Alfi Thani, Shaykh Ahmad Faruqi	Sirhind, India
Rabi' al-Awwal
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
12th	'Eid Milad-un-Nabi Sallallahu 'alaihi wa Sallam	Madina Munawwarah
1st	Imam Abu'l Hasan ash-Shazili
3rd	Khawaja Bahauddin Naqshbandi	Bukhara
12th	Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal	Baghdad
14th	Habib Nuh bin Muhammad al-Habshi	Singapore
23rd	Hadrat Rabia al-'Adawiya al-Basri	Basra, Iraq
23rd	Shaykh 'Uways bin Muhammad Al-Barawi Al-Qadiri	Biyole, Somalia
Rabi' al-Thaani
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
11th	Gauth ul A'zam Shaykh 'AbdulQadir Jilani	Baghdad, Iraq
14th	Imam Malik	Madina Munawwarah
19th	Mulla 'AbdulRahman Jami	Herat, Afghanistan
20th	Al-Habib Sayyid 'Ali bin Muhammad al-Habshi	Seywun, Hadhramawt
22nd	Shaykh ul Akbar Muhyuddin ibn al-'Arabi	Damascus, Syria
26th	Al-Habib Mohammad bin Salim bin Salim bin Ahmad al-Attas	Singapore
Jumada al-Ulaa
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
12th	Sayyid Ahmad Kabir ar-Rifa'i
20th	Habib Sheikh Omar bin Abdullah Alkhatib	Singapore
21st	Al-Habib 'Umar bin 'Abd al-Rahman al-'Attas	Huraydah, Hadramawt
26th	Sultan Ibrahim bin Ad'ham al-Balkhi
Jumada al-Thani
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
1st	Sultan Bahu	Gar Maharaja, Pakistan
5th	Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi	Konya, Turkey
14th	Imam al-Ghazali	Tus, Iran
22nd	Sayyidina AbuBakr Siddiq	Madina Munawwarah
Rajab
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
6th	Khawaja Mu'eenuddin Chishti	Ajmer, India
14th	Al-Habib Ahmad Mash-hur bin Taha al-Haddad	Makkah Mukarramah
15th	Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq	Madina Munawwarah
18th	Mawlana 'Abdullah Shah, of Nairobi	Madina Munawwarah
24th	Imam an-Nawawi	Nawa, Syria
27th	Laylatul Me'raj
27th	Shaykh Junaid Baghdadi	Baghdad, Iraq
27th	Al-Habib Attas al-Habshi	Makkah Mukarramah
29th	Imam Shafi'i
Sha'ban
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
2nd	Imam u'l A'zam Imam Abu Hanifa	Baghdad, Iraq
15th	Nisf Sha'ban
15th	Sunnah meritorious fast
19th	Al-Habib Ahmad bin Zayn al-Habshi	Hawtah, Hadramawt
Ramadan
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
1st	Start of obligatory (fard) fasting
3rd	Sayyidatina Fatima az-Zahra	Madina Munawwarah
10th	Sayyidatina Khadija al-Kubra	Makkah Mukarramah
17th	Sayyidatina 'Aisha Siddiqah	Madina Munawwarah
17th	Shuhadaa Battle of Badr	Badr
21st	Sayyidina 'Ali al-Murtada	Najaf Ashraf, Iraq
21st to 29th	Search for Laylatul Qadr (on 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th and 29th nights)
Shawwal
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
1st	'Eid ul Fitr
2nd	Start of six Sunnah meritorious fasts of Shawwal
6th	Imam Bukhari ash-Shafi'i	Bukhara, Uzbekistan
13th	Al-Habib Abubakr bin 'Abdallah al-'Aydarus Adani
13th	Al-Habib Sayyid Ahmad Abubakr bin Sumait	Zanzibar
15th	Shuhadaa Battle of Uhud
19th	Dr. Muhammad Qadeer Shah Baig Ajmeri	Toronto, Canada
Dhul Qa'da
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
7th	Sayyidunal Imam al-Habib 'Abdallah al-Haddad	Tarim, Hadramawt
13th	Hababa Khadijah al-Haddad	Makkah Mukarramah
Dhul Hijjah
Date	Anniversary/Event	Resting Place
7th	Imam Muhammad Baqir	Madina Munawwarah
9th	Day of Hajj: Wuquful 'Arafah
9th	Sunnah meritorious fast
10th	'Eid ul Ad'ha
10th to 12th	Days of Sacrifice
11th	Sayyidina 'Uthman Ghani	Madina Munawwarah
22nd	Mawlana Muhammad 'Abdul 'Aleem Siddiqi	Madina Munawwarah
27th	Shaykh Abubakr bin Salim	Aynat, Hadramawt

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Personal Communications Received From:

1. Shaykh Muhammad Sadiq, Blackburn, England.
2. Sayyid Ali Qullatain, Toronto, Canada.
3. As-Sayyid Abdul Kader bin Ali bin Issa Al-Haddad, Singapore.

References:

1. Iqbal Ahmad Nuri and Anees Ahmad Nuri, Qadiri Ridwi Majmu'ah Wazaaif (Collection of Regular Voluntary Invocations of the Qadiriyyah), Urdu translation,Maktaba Nuriyyah Ridwiyyah, Sikhkhir, 1994, p. 399-407.

2. Pir Muhammad Karam Shah, Majmu'ah Wazaaif ma' Dalaail ul Khayraat (A Compilation of Regular Voluntary Invocations Together With Dalaail ul Khayraat of Imam al-Jazuli), Urdu translation, Diyaa ul Qur'an Publications, Lahore, 1404/1984, p. 440-443.

3. http://www.dawateislami.net/
Dawate Islami web-site.