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Maqtal al-Husayn
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “book which narrates the story of battle of karbala and death of hussain ibn ali”. Today it says “title of various books written by different authors throughout the centuries which narrate the story of the bat”.
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Maqtal al-Husayn ( Arabic : مقتل الحسين , lit. ' The Murder Place of Husayn ' ) is the title of various books written by different authors throughout the centuries which narrate the story of the battle of Karbala and the death of Husayn ibn Ali . They were first written in the eighth century.
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book which narrates the story of battle of karbala and death of hussain ibn ali
Now
title of various books written by different authors throughout the centuries which narrate the story of the bat
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