The Precise Locus of Ali al-Asghar's Tomb Based on Sunni and Shiite Sources

The Ashura tragedy had since been regarded as a symbol of the Umayyad tyranny and the oppression imposed on the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad. In this tragedy, massacring children has highlighted it and shows another page of the Umayyad animosity and savageness. Ali alAsghar, an infant son of Imam al-Husayn was brutally martyred by an arrow. The present paper renders a profile of this infant martyr, the way he was martyred, and the precise locus of his tomb. The information abailable here is based on authoritative sources written by Sunni and Shiite historians.