of his ears, and on his forehead was the trace left by prolonged prostration.

It is also reported that ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—had instructed that Ibn Muljam be burned after he was executed.

Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad related from his father that al-Ḥasan performed the funeral prayer for ʿAlī, buried him in Kūfa near the governor’s palace, and concealed the location of his grave.

Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh said, “They hid it so that the Kharijites would not exhume him.”

Shurayk and others maintained that al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī later transferred him to Medina.

Al-Mubarrad, citing Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, said, “The first person ever moved from one grave to another was ʿAlī.”

Ṣāliḥ ibn Aḥad the grammarian narrated—through Ṣāliḥ ibn Shuʿayb from al-Ḥasan ibn Shuʿayb al-Farawī—that ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, was placed in a coffin, overlaid with a large amount of camphor, and loaded onto a camel bound for Medina. When the cortege reached the territory of Ṭayyʾ, the camel was lost during the night. The tribesmen of Ṭayyʾ took it, thinking the box contained money; when they opened it they grew fearful of pursuit, so they buried it, slaughtered the camel, and ate its meat.

Muṭīn said, “If the Rāfiḍites knew whose grave it is that they visit on the outskirts of Kūfa, they would stone it, for it is the grave of al-Mughīra ibn Shuʿba.”

Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir said, “ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with him—was killed at the age of eight-” (the report breaks off here).