Following a general rout of Almoravid forces throughout Morocco and Algeria, Abd al-Mu'min entered Aghmāt without a fight on the middle day of Muharram 541 (27 June 1146).
The three male characters who married Mashood's daughters are all named after Islamic months Shawwal, Muharram and Safar.
The Islamic Center of America asked him to join them the following year as their guest speaker during the holy month of Ramadhan and the first ten days of Muharram, commemorating the martyrdom of the beloved grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Imam Hussein.
Although the population of Pariaman is predominantly Sunni, a famous and popular festival of Shia origin named Tabuik (from Arabic "tabut" meaning coffin), is held annually in the city every 10 Muharram, the Day of Ashura.
In addition, a holy icons, known as toq, was placed in the mosque and allegedly showed miraculous feats during the mourning period of Muharram.
The shrine is especially revered by the Shia who visit it every year, in the month of Muharram, and various other times of the year, to honor his legendary martyrdom in the Battle of Karbala.
Seventeen years later, the developers of the Islamic calendar chose that year as the year to start counting from: "the first year of the Hijra era, 1 Annum Hegirae (Anno Hegirae when annum is declined in the ablative/locative case, as it is in "in the ordinal year of the Hijra"; cf. Anno Domini), abbreviated 1 AH. The first day of 1 AH corresponds to July 16, 622, denoted as "1 Muharram 1 AH".
He died on 25 Muharram 1337 AH at Bhopal at the age of 42 years 10 months and 21 days because of Influenza and is buried at the 'Family Graveyard', Jinsi, Jahangirbad, Bhopal.
Between 1974 and 2006 he addressed main Muharram majalis in Nishtar Park, Karachi.
27 December:- At least 15 people, including mourners and policemen, were killed and over 100 injured when a suicide bomber ripped through a Muharram procession near an imambargah in Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir on Sunday as another explosion near a Muharram procession near Orangi Town in Karachi injured 35 people.