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In this chamber, there was a very exquisite wooden door that bore inscriptions written in Naskh script. The door is lattice-designed and has two panels, and according to its inscriptions, it was made in the year 606 AH by order of the Abbasid caliph al-Nāsir li-Dīn Allah—who followed the Shia creed—and under the supervision of Abu Tamim Ma‘add ibn Husayn ibn Sa‘d al-Mūsawi (d. 617 AH).<ref>Ṣāḥibī, " Waqf-i Mīrāth-i Jāwidān. “Bāb Ghiybat dar Sāmarrā ", p. 86.</ref> | In this chamber, there was a very exquisite wooden door that bore inscriptions written in Naskh script. The door is lattice-designed and has two panels, and according to its inscriptions, it was made in the year 606 AH by order of the Abbasid caliph al-Nāsir li-Dīn Allah—who followed the Shia creed—and under the supervision of Abu Tamim Ma‘add ibn Husayn ibn Sa‘d al-Mūsawi (d. 617 AH).<ref>Ṣāḥibī, " Waqf-i Mīrāth-i Jāwidān. “Bāb Ghiybat dar Sāmarrā ", p. 86.</ref> | ||
This door is no longer in the cellar and, according to a report, it is kept in the storage of the shrine of the Two Askari Imams.<ref></ref> Around the chamber, there is also a band inscription in Kufic script containing salutations upon the Fourteen Infallibles. | This door is no longer in the cellar and, according to a report, it is kept in the storage of the shrine of the Two Askari Imams.<ref>https://www.khabaronline.ir/news/1376901/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B9%D8%AC-%DB%8C%D8%A7-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%BA%DB%8C%D8%A8%D8%AA</ref> Around the chamber, there is also a band inscription in Kufic script containing salutations upon the Fourteen Infallibles. | ||
This historical artifact was seriously damaged during one of the terrorist explosions that occurred at the sacred shrine in Samarra; its main part was destroyed, and today only its border remains.<ref>Khāmeh-yār , "Maqām-hā-yi Ḥazrat Mahdī (ʿAjal Allāh Farajuh al-Sharīf) dar ʿIrāq.", p. 103.</ref> | This historical artifact was seriously damaged during one of the terrorist explosions that occurred at the sacred shrine in Samarra; its main part was destroyed, and today only its border remains.<ref>Khāmeh-yār , "Maqām-hā-yi Ḥazrat Mahdī (ʿAjal Allāh Farajuh al-Sharīf) dar ʿIrāq.", p. 103.</ref> | ||