Samba born to Lord Krishna

Krishna

Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...

 and Jambavati

Jambavati

Jambavati is the only daughter of the king-bear Jambavan. Her story is told in the tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana. She received the famous "Syamantaka Jewel" as a gift from her father and she married to Lord Krishna and occupied the third most prominent position of his eight principal queens...

. Samba is very Handsome, dearest and notorious son of lord Krishna. Samba does many unbearable things which leads whole yadu

Yadu

Yadu is one of the five Indo-Aryan tribes mentioned in the Rig Veda . The Mahabharata, the Harivamsha and the Puranas mention Yadu as the eldest son of king Yayati and his queen Devayani. The prince of King Yayati, Yadu was a self-respecting and a very established ruler...

 dynasty to an end.

Krishna wants to have Son Like Lord Shiva

Krishna want to have a son after getting advice from a sage, Krishna entered into seclusion. He put ashes all over his body and clothed himself in the bark of a tree. For years and years he prayed, only to have a glimpse of Lord Shiva

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

 and to ask him for a boon. After years and years both Parvati and Shiva appeared. Krishna asked to Lord Shiva,that you are the only one who can full fill my desire. I want a son exactly like you otherwise I don't want. Lord Shiva granted Krishna the boon. after some time Krishna's wife Jambavati gave a birth to a baby. They named him as Samba.

Reason behind the birth of Samba

Lord Krishna knew that transformation was needed and transformation must be preceded by destruction. Shiva’s function is to destroy , if he get a child exactly like Lord Shiva then the child will cause whole yadu dynasty to destroy this is why he prayed to have a son like Shiva.

Curse of Sages

one day some yadavas out of their foolishness tried to play pranks and tease the Sages. They dressed up Samba look like a woman, and asked Rishis this young woman is expecting a child and She is eager to know if she will give birth to son or a daughter. The sages who could see through the hoax felt extremely angry at this insulting behaviour of the young men and pronounced a curse on them, "O fools, she will deliver a pestle and that will be the ruin of your whole clan

Suffered from leprosy

According to Mausala Parva

Mausala Parva

Mausala Parva denotes the incidents related to the death of Krishna, Balarama, the destruction of the Yadavas through an internal strife, the mourning of the Yadava ladies over their dead husbands and the subsequent submersion of Dwaraka in Sea. This Parva is the last third Parva preceding the last...

 and Samba Purana

Samba Purana

The Samba Purana is one of the Saura Upapuranas. This text is dedicated to Surya. The recension of the text found in the printed editions has 84 chapters. Chapters 53-68 of this text are also divided into 15 s...

, One day sage Narada

Narada

Narada or Narada Muni is a divine sage from the Vaisnava tradition, who plays a prominent role in a number of the Puranic texts, especially in the Bhagavata Purana, and in the Ramayana...

Son of Bharma visits Dwaraka. he was welcomed by yadu's but Samba proud of his handsomeness didn't pay attention on him, Narada decided to teach him a lesson Narada offered alcohol to 16,100 wives of Lord Krishna and Samba. After drinking too much of alcohol, the wives of Krishna lost their senses and control. They sexually attracted towards their son Samba. Later Narada reported this to Krishna which resulted to curse Samba to suffer from leprosy in order to lose his handsomeness. and he also curse his wives that robbers will kidnap them soon after his death.