Editing Ali (section)

==Birth and early life==
{{See also|Birthplace of Ali ibn Abi Talib|Early Muslims|Hadith of warning}}
[[File:'Alî mounted on his blue mule.jpg|thumb|Ali in an illustrated copy of the [[Turkish language|Turkish]] epic ''[[Siyer-i Nebi|Siyer-i nebi]]'']]

Ali was born in [[Mecca]] to [[Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib]] and his wife [[Fatimah bint Asad|Fatima bint Asad]] around 600 [[Common Era|CE]].{{sfn|Gleave|2008}} His date of birth is possibly 13 [[Rajab]],{{sfn|Shah-Kazemi|2015b}}{{sfn|Afsaruddin|Nasr|2023}} which is the occasion celebrated annually by [[Shia Islam|Shia Muslims]].{{sfn|Momen|1985|p=239}} Ali may have been the only person born inside the [[Kaaba|Ka'ba]],{{sfn|Afsaruddin|Nasr|2023}}{{sfn|Shah-Kazemi|2015b}}{{sfn|Gleave|2008}} the holiest site of [[Islam]], which is located in Mecca.  Ali's father was a leading member of the [[Banu Hashim]], a clan within the Meccan tribe of [[Quraysh]].{{sfn|Shah-Kazemi|2015b}} Abu Talib also raised his nephew Muhammad after his parents died. Later, when Abu Talib fell into poverty, Ali was taken in at the age of about five and raised by Muhammad and his wife [[Khadija bint Khuwaylid|Khadija]].{{sfn|Afsaruddin|Nasr|2023}}

Aged about eleven,{{sfn|Gleave|2008}} Ali was among the first to accept Muhammad's teachings and profess Islam. Ali did so either after Khadija or after Khadija and Muhammad's successor, [[Abu Bakr]]. While the precise order here is debated among Shia and [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] scholars,{{sfn|Veccia Vaglieri|2012a}} the earliest sources place Ali before Abu Bakr.{{sfn|Gleave|2008}} Muhammad's call to Islam in Mecca lasted from 610 to 622, during which Ali assiduously supported the small Muslim community, especially the poor.{{sfn|Afsaruddin|Nasr|2023}} Some three years after his first revelation,{{sfn|Rubin|1995|p=130}} Muhammad gathered his relatives for a [[Hadith of warning|feast]], invited them to Islam, and asked for their assistance.{{sfn|Momen|1985|p=12}} Aged about fourteen,{{Sfn|Momen|1985|p=12}}{{Sfn|Abbas|2021|p=34}} Ali was the only relative there who offered his support, after which Muhammad told his guests that Ali was his brother and his successor,{{sfn|Gleave|2008}}{{sfn|Momen|1985|p=12}} according to the Sunni historian [[al-Tabari]] ({{Died in|923}}). The Shia interpretation of this episode is that Muhammad had already designated Ali as his successor.{{sfn|Momen|1985|p=12}}{{sfn|Rubin|1995|pp=136–7}}