Another is “the grave of Khālid” in Homs. It is said to be the grave of Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Mu‘āwiyah, the brother of the Mu‘āwiyah just mentioned. However, when it became widely known as Khālid’s grave, and since the Khālid familiar to the common people was Khālid ibn al-Walīd, they assumed it was his. There is disagreement over whether it is his grave or that of Khālid ibn Yazīd. Abū ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-Barr mentioned in al-Istī‘āb that Khālid ibn al-Walīd died in Homs—though Medina is also mentioned—in the year 21 or 22 AH, during the caliphate of ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb, whom he appointed as his executor. And Allah knows best.

Another is “the grave of Abū Muslim al-Khawlānī” in Dārayyā, whose attribution is disputed. Another is “the grave of ‘Alī ibn al-Husayn” in Egypt. This attribution is certainly false, for everyone agrees that ‘Alī ibn al-Husayn died in Medina and was buried in al-Baqī‘.

Another is “the Shrine of the Head” in Cairo. Those who have written about the killing of al-Husayn agree that the head is not in Egypt, and they know this attribution to be false. The story originated with its transfer from a shrine in Ascalon. That shrine was built about sixty years before this one, toward the end of the fifth century AH, whereas this one was built during the sixth century AH, some five hundred years after al-Husayn’s killing. Cairo itself was founded some three hundred years after al-Husayn’s killing.

Ibn Dihyah demonstrated in al-‘Ilm al-Mashhūr that this shrine’s attribution is false and that the head was buried in Medina, as al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār reported. What is authentically established concerning the transportation of the head is what al-Bukhārī related in his Sahīh: that it was brought to ‘Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyād, and he began