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Created page with "'''Imam Hasan al-Askari (a)''', the eleventh Imam of Shia Muslims and the father of Imam Mahdi (a), was born in 232 AH/846-7 AD in Medina. During his childhood, he was forced to accompany his father to Samarra, in present-day Iraq, by the Abbasid caliph. He lived there under Abbasid surveillance until his martyrdom in 260 AH/873-4 AD. He was buried alongside his father, Imam al-Hadi (a), in Samarra, at a site known as the Shrine of the Two A..."