Hasan al-Askari
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Hasan al-Askari was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the eleventh of the Twelve Imams, and father of the Muhammad al-Mahdi in Twelver Shia Islam. He was born in Medina in 844 and brought
The Al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, where Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the tenth and eleventh Imams, are buried. It is a holy site in Shia Islam.
Ali al-Hadi
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Ali ibn Muhammad al-Hadi, also known as Ali al-Naqi, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the tenth Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, succeeding his father Muhammad al-Jawad. After the death
Hasan al-Askari
…the eleventh of the Twelve Imams, and father of the Muhammad al-Mahdi in Twelver Shia Islam. He was born in Medina in 844 and brought with his father, Ali al-Hadi, to the garrison town of Samarra in 848, where the Abbasid caliphs held them under close surveillance until their deaths, even though neither were…
16th‑century Ottoman iconographic depiction of Ali al-Hadi
Calligraphic inscription of al-Hadi's name on the zarih of Imam Husayn, Karbala