وُلِدَ أَمِيرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) بَعْدَ عَامِ الْفِيلِ بِثَلاثِينَ سَنَةً وَقُتِلَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فِي شَهْرِ رَمَضَانَ لِتِسْعٍ بَقِينَ مِنْهُ لَيْلَةَ الاحَدِ سَنَةَ أَرْبَعِينَ مِنَ الْهِجْرَةِ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلاثٍ وَسِتِّينَ سَنَةً بَقِيَ بَعْدَ قَبْضِ النَّبِيِّ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) ثَلاثِينَ سَنَةً وَأُمُّهُ فَاطِمَةُ بِنْتُ أَسَدِ بْنِ هَاشِمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَافٍ وَهُوَ أَوَّلُ هَاشِمِيٍّ وَلَدَهُ هَاشِمٌ مَرَّتَيْنِ.
Amir al-Mu’minin Ali was born thirty years after the year of elephant. He was martyred in month of Ramadan twenty first Sunday night in the year fortieth after Hijra (migration). He was sixty three years at that time. He lived for thirty years after the death of the Holy Prophet
. His mother was Fatima daughter of Asad Ibrahim ibn Hashim ibn ‘Abd Manaf. He was the first person whose both parents belonged to Hashim.