Ḥujr ibn ʿAdī al-Kindī ( ar, حُجْر بن عَدِيّ ٱلْكِنْدِيّ), died 660 CE, was a
Companion of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad
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. He was sentenced to death by the
Umayyad Caliph
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Muawiyah I for his unwavering
support and praise for
Ali
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam ...
, the fourth
Rashidun Caliph
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for
Sunni Muslims
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and the first
Imam
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for
Shia Muslims
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, when he objected to the tradition of publicly cursing Ali. He belonged to the tribe of
Kinda
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Politics and society
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*Kingdom of Kinda, a tribal kingdom in north and central Arabia in –
Places
* Kinda, Idlib, Syria
* Kinda Hundred, a hundred in Sweden
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. According to some
narrations, his last wish was that his son should be executed before him lest death terrify him (his son) and therefore accede to the condition of cursing Ali.
![Hujr ibne Adi Mosque Minaret](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Hujr_ibne_Adi_Mosque_Minaret.jpg)
Hujr was given two titles: "al-Kindi" and "al-Adbar". The first title was "al-Kindi", meaning ''The Person From
Kinda
Kinda or Kindah may refer to:
Politics and society
*Kinda (tribe), an ancient and medieval Arab tribe
*Kingdom of Kinda, a tribal kingdom in north and central Arabia in –
Places
* Kinda, Idlib, Syria
* Kinda Hundred, a hundred in Sweden
* Kinda ...
'', an Arabian tribe. The second title given to Hujr was "al-Adbar".
[Ibn Muḥammad (Ibn-ʻAbd-Rabbihī), Aḥmad. The Unique Necklace "al-ʻIqd Al-Farīd" Trans. Issa J. Boullata. Vol. 3. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Limited, 2007. Print. Pg. 289] Hujr, his son Humaam ibn Hajar, and some other companions are buried in
Adra
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, in the outskirts of the
Syrian
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capital
Damascus
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. A mosque had been built around his grave which became a pilgrimage site for Muslims.
On 2 May 2013,
Jabhat al-Nusra
Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra ( ar, جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام, Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahl ish-Sham lit. ''Front of the Supporters of the People of Syria/the Levant''), known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham ( ar, جبهة فتح ال ...
attacked the mausoleum and
exhume
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d his remains. His body was taken to an unknown location by the rebels. According to a report published in ''
The New York Times
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'', a widely distributed Facebook photo of the desecration of the pilgrimage site gives credit for the exhumation to a man named Abu Anas al-Wazir, or Abu al-Baraa, a leader of a military group called the Islam Brigade of the
Free Syrian Army
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.
References
History of Tabari - Hujr ibn Adi
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660 deaths
Companions of the Prophet
Year of birth unknown
Kinda
7th-century executions by the Umayyad Caliphate