The first fitna, or civil war, took place following the assassination of this man's predecessor and saw fighting at the Battle of the (*) Camel during his reign in a certain position.
One story of this figure says that he extended his arm to pull ice from a mountain in order to show that a girl was not pregnant and in fact had a tapeworm inside of her. He was declared leader while a baby at the pond of Ghadeer. This figure's sayings are collected in the text known as the Nahjul Balaga or the Peak of Eloquence, and one of his epithets is "Commander of the Faithful". The first fitna, or civil war, took place following the assassination of this man's predecessor and saw fighting at the Battle of the (*) Camel during his reign in a certain position. This husband of Fatima and father of Hussain is believed by one sect to have followed Uthman in the aforementioned political position. For 10 points, name this son-in-law of Muhammad and son of Abu Talib, revered as the first Imam by Shi'ites and the fourth caliph by Sunnis.
One story of this figure says that he extended his arm to pull ice from a mountain in order to show that a girl was not pregnant and in fact had a tapeworm inside of her.
Ali ibn Abu Talib