Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi


Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Muhammed ibn Ali ibn Musa ibn Ja'far was the son of Ali al-Hadi and the brother of Hasan al-Askari, the 10th and 11th Twelver Shia Imams, respectively. His Tomb was constructed between Samarra and Kazmeen that is situated about 93 kilometers north of Baghdad in Balad. Syed Muhammad Gaisu Daraaz was his grandson in 7th generation born in 1320/21 AD.
The section of the Shia believed that the Awaited Imam Mahdi was Muhammad ibn Ali al-Hadi, who was put into occultation by the rule of allah as the abbasies wanted him killed in intent to remove the imamat from existence, he reappeared a few times for short period of times and went back in to the large occultation

Attack on Shrine

On July 7, 2016, at least 40 people were killed and over 74 injured after a group of attackers stormed the Mausoleum. The attackers included suicide car bombers, suicide bombers on foot, and several gunmen. They attacked Shi'ite pilgrims celebrating Eid al-Fitr. There were three attackers, who have all been killed by security personnel. Hezbollah condemned the attack on the sacred Shia Muslim shrine.
In the past, there was bombing and sectarian bloodshed in Samarra, where Imam Ali al-Hadi and eleventh Imam of Twelver Hassan al-Askari, the father and brother of Muhammad bin Ali al-Hadi are buried.