Kufa

Kufa
Ceety
al-Kūfah
Kufa Location in Iraq
Coordinates: 32°02′N 44°24′E
Kintra	Iraq
Province	Najaf
Time zone	GMT+3

Kufa (Arabic,الكوفة al-Kūfah) is a city in Iraq, aboot 170 kilometre (110 mi) sooth o Baghdad, an 10 kilometre (6.2 mi) northeast o Najaf. It is locatit on the banks o the Euphrates River. The estimatit population in 2003 wis 110,000.

Alang wi Samarra, Karbala, Kadhimiya an Najaf, Kufa is ane o five Iraqi cities that are o great importance tae Shia Muslims. The city wis the feenal caipital o ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, an wis foondit athin the first hunner yeir o the 622 Hijra.

The city haes the Great Mosque o Kufa, ane o the aerliest mosques in Islam, biggit in the 7t yeirhunner.

Places

The Great Mosque of Kufa or Masjid al-Kūfa (Arabic: مسجد الكوفة المعظم‎), or "Masjid al-Aazam" locatit in Kufa, Iraq, is ane o the aerliest mosques in Islam. It wis constructit in the middle o the 7t yeirhunner efter the Caliph Omar established the city. The mosque haes the remeens o Muslim ibn ‘Aqīl—first cousin o Husayn ibn ‘Alī, his companion Hānī ibn ‘Urwa, an the revolutionary Mukhtār al-Thaqafī. Masjid al-Kufa in Kūfā, Iraq—haes the tombs o Muslim ibn ‘Aqīl, Hānī ibn ‘Urwa, an Mukhtār al-Thaqafī. The Mosque haes mony important steids relatin tae the Prophets an ‘Alī an aa, includin the place whaur he wis fatally struck on the heid whiles in Sujood.

The tomb o Zayd ibn ‘Alī in Kūfā, Iraq

Masjid al-Hannaanah in Kūfā, Iraq—haes some o the skin o Husayn ibn ‘Alī that wis rippit aff o him post-mortem bi the aggressors o Karbalā.

The Hoose o ‘Alī in Kūfā, Iraq

Tomb o Maytham at-Tammār in Kufa, Iraq

Tomb o Kumayl ibn Ziyad in Kufa, Iraq

The twalft Imām haes the Masjid al-Sahlah associatit wi him.

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