The Inside History

The Martyrdom of Hz Ali

The Fourth Rightly Guided Caliph On January 26, 661 (21st Ramadan), Ali was martyred at the Great Mosque of Kufa in Kufa, Iraq, by Ibn Muljam, an Egyptian Kharijite. Ibn Muljam was a paternal Himyar, but relationship between maternal kinship, he was counted among some of the Murad and closely associated with the Banii Jabala of Kindah. He'd come to …