# assassination of Ali

> Fourth Rashidun and first Shia Imam caliph was assassinated by a Kharijite called Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Amr ibn Muljam al-Muradi on 26 January 661, at the Great Mosque of Kufah in present-day Iraq

**Wikidata**: [Q20650851](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20650851)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ali)  
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