19 Ramadan
19 Ramadan is the nineteenth day of the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.
In the Lunar Hijri calendar, this day is the 255th day of the year.
Events
- 40 AH – Ali ibn Abi Talib was wounded with the sword of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam in the morning during Fajr prayer, Kufa
- 570 AH – Battle of the Horns of Hama, an Ayyubid victory over the Zengids, which left Saladin in control of Damascus, Baalbek, and Homs
- The revelation of the whole of Quran to the heart of the Islam Prophet Muhammad
Deaths
- 556 AH – Tala'i ibn Ruzzik, minister of Fatimid Caliphate, Arab Egyptian poet
- 665 AH - Abu Shama Makdisi, Syrian Sunni Qāriʾ, Faqīh, historian and writer
- 832 AH - Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Kāshanī, a Persian astronomer and mathematician
- 1431 AH – Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih, an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja and professor of Qom Seminary
Holidays and observances
- The first Qadr Night of Ramadan according to Shiites, holding an official nightlife worship ceremony called Ehya night in Iran