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'''Tragedy of Fakhkh''' (Arabic: {{ia|وقعة فخّ}}) or the '''Uprising of the Fakhkh's martyr''' (Arabic: {{ia|قیام شهید الفخّ}}) was an uprising by the [['Alawis]] against the [[Abbasids]] that occurred in [[Dhu l-Qa'da]], [[169]]/May, 786) under the leadership of [[Shahid of Fakhkh|Husayn b. 'Ali]], a progeny of [[Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba (a)]] in [[Medina]], leading to his and his companions' martyrdom in an area called "fakhkh" near [[Mecca]]. According to some [[hadiths]], [[Imam al-Kazim (a)]] refused to take part in the uprising, prognosticating its fate. According to a hadith from [[Imam al-Jawad (a)]]: after [[Event of Taff]], there was no crime worse than the Event of Fakhkh.