Safar 5
From Mw
- 26th July 657 (5th Safar 37); Ali Ben Abu Talib fights Muawiyah over the Caliphate of Islam and captures Anbar, Battle of Siffin.
- 14th October 1953 (5th Safar 1373) - Qibya Massacre. Israeli forces destroy the West Bank village of Qibya killing 69 civilian men women and children.
- 25th December 1979 (5th Safar 1400) Soviets deploy the 40th Army into Afghanistan
[edit] Births
- 10th November 745 (5th Safar 128) - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (d. 799)

