Assassinated during prayer at the Great Mosque of Kufa
· Great Mosque of Kufa, Kufa, Iraq
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International · file Ali was struck with a poison-coated sword during morning prayer at the Great Mosque of Kufa and died from his wounds about two days later. The article records alternative assassination dates of 26 and 30 January; the precise date of death after the wounding is not stated.
