Holy Shrine of Imam al-Husayn (a): Difference between revisions

After the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (a) and his companions, a clan of [[Banu Asad]] buried their corpses where they were martyred. The building on Imam Husayn (a)'s grave at that time was made of lumps of soil.  

When [[Mukhtar al-Thaqafi]] triumphed in his uprising for the vengeance of Imam Husayn (a) in the [[Sha'ban]] month of 65 A.H. (March 685), he built a mausoleum for Imam Husayn (a)'s grave with a dome made of bricks and plasters. During his governance, Mukhtar was the first person who built a mausoleum for Imam Husayn (a)'s grave. The building consisted in an area with a ceiling and a mosque with two gates—one to the east and one to the west. Since many Shiites visited Imam Husayn (a)'s mausoleum, [[Harun al-Rashid]] ordered some of his soldiers to destroy the building. They destroyed the mosque built on Imam Husayn (a)'s grave as well as the one built on [[Abu l-Fadl al-'Abbas (a)]]'s. Harun also asked them to cut the cedar tree that had grown near Imam Husayn (a)'s grave (and was used as a sign for the grave) and to raze the grave, and they did so.