Jumada al-Thani
Ali won the Battle of Bassorah in this month
Native name	جُمَادَىٰ ٱلثَّانِي (Arabic)
Calendar	Islamic calendar
Month number	6
Number of days	29-30 (depends on actual observation of the moon's crescent)
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Jumada al-Thani (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلثَّانِي, romanized: Jumādā ath-Thānī, lit. 'The second Jumada'), also known as Jumada al-Akhirah (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلْآخِرَة, romanized: Jumādā al-ʾĀkhirah, lit. 'The final Jumada'), Jumada al-Akhir (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ ٱلْآخِر, romanized: Jumādā al-ʾĀkhir), or Jumada II, is the sixth month of the Islamic calendar. The word Jumda (Arabic: جمد), from which the name of the month is derived, is used to denote dry, parched land, a land devoid of rain.^{[citation needed]} Jumādā (Arabic: جُمَادَىٰ) may also be related to a verb meaning "to freeze", and another account relates that water would freeze in pre-Islamic Arabia during this time of year.

In Ottoman Turkish, the month was called Jèmāzìyyu-'l-ākhir,^[1] or G̃emazi-yèl-Aher.^[2] The month's Turkish abbreviation was jìm',^[1] and its Latin abbreviation was Djem. II.^[3] This is also spelled Cümadelahir^[4] or Cümâd-el-âhire.^{[citation needed]} The modern Turkish spellings are Cemaziyelahir and Cemaziyelsani.

Timing

The Islamic calendar is a purely lunar calendar, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Jumada al-Thani migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start and end dates for Jumada al-Thani are as follows (based on the Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia^[5]):

Islamic events

• 03 Jumada al-Thani, death of Muhammad's (SAW) daughter Fatimah in 11 AH.
• 03 Jumada al-Thani, death of Harun al-Rashid, the fifth Abbasid caliph.
• 10 Jumada al-Thani, victory of Ali in the Battle of Bassorah (Jamal).
• 13 Jumada al-Thani, death of Umm al-Banin (the mother of Abbas ibn Ali).
• 20 Jumada al-Thani, birth of Muhammad's (SAW) daughter Fatima Zahra.
• 22 Jumada al-Thani, death of Caliph Abu Bakr.
• In 8 AH, Dhat as-Salasil.
• 25 Jumada al-Thani of 564 AH, Saladin became amir of Egypt.