al-Kufah

Kufa or al-Kufah is a city in Iraq, about a hundred and seventy kilometres south of Baghdad, and 10 kilometres northeast of Najaf. It is placed at the banks of the Euphrates River. The expected population in 2003 changed into 110,000. Currently, Kufa and Najaf are joined right into a unmarried city region that is primarily typically recognized to the outside world as 'Najaf'. Along with Samarra, Karbala, Kadhimiya and Najaf, Kufa is one of 5 Iraqi towns that are of extremely good significance to Shi'ite Muslims.

The metropolis was the final capital of the fourth Rashidun Caliph, Ali ibn Abi Talib, and became based all through 639 CE by means of the second Rashidun Caliph, Umar ibn Al-Khattab. It is also associated that Muslims after conquest of Al-Madain were looking for a appropriate vicinity for habitation. Likewise others, Salman and Hudhayfa bin al-Yamman have been also searching out. After selecting the land, they supplied prayers there, as a consequence marking the day of the foundation of Kufa.