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A narration by aṣ-Ṣādiq encourages remembering this figure’s thirst whenever drinking cold water. Buildings sometimes named for this figure are included in takyehs and host storytellers called rawda khwani. (10[1])Participants of a ziyārat on the twentieth of Safar dedicated to this figure wear a (10[1])ring on their right hand and walk barefoot over soil after performing ghusl (10[2])(“GOO-sull”) in a river. People wear black headbands bearing this figure’s name to attend (10[1])reenactments (10[1])called (10[2])ta’ziyeh. (10[4]-5[3])A prayer declaring this person “wronged” is recited alongside 51 rak’ats on a holiday sometimes (10[1])called Chehelum. Besides the Kumbh Mela, the largest human gathering (10[1])is a pilgrimage to this figure’s shrine on Arba’in. (-5[1])This commander was slaughtered by Yazīd (10[1])I’s army at Karbalā’ (10[1])and is mourned during (-5[1])Muḥarram. (-5[1])For 10 points, name this son of Alī and third Shī‘a imam. ■END■ (10[4]0[4])

ANSWER: Husayn ibn Ali [or Imam al-Husayn; or al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib; accept Husayniyya]
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