MARTYRDOM: IMAM ALI IBNE ABI TALIB

the fourth Rashidun caliph and first Shia Imam, was assassinated by the Kharijite Ibn Muljam on 26 January 661 while praying at the Great Mosque of Kufa in present-day Iraq. Ali, who was then 62 or 63 years of age, died due to his injuries two days after Ibn Muljam struck him on his head by a poison