Convert 18 Dhuʾl-Hijjah 1445 AH to Gregorian

The martyrdom of ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan (may Allah be pleased with him) · 35 AH

The rebels stormed the house of the aged caliph ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan after a forty-day siege and killed him while he was fasting and reciting the Qur'an. He had refused that a Muslim's blood be shed in his defence, so his killing was the door to strife to this day.

• Falls on Monday, one of the days the Prophet ﷺ regularly kept a voluntary fast.
• Dhuʾl-Hijjah is one of the four sacred months whose sanctity God magnified.
• Day 18 of 30 in Dhuʾl-Hijjah 1445 AH — the second third of the month.

A sacred month; home to Hajj, Eid al-Adha, and the first ten days are considered the most blessed of the year