This maqām is attributed to Sharīfa, a daughter of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Mujtabā, and has been venerated in the Ḥilla region for centuries under the names…
This maqām is attributed to Sharīfa, a daughter of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Mujtabā, and has been venerated in the Ḥilla region for centuries under the names al-ʿAlawiyya Sharīfa and Ṭabībat al-ʿAlawiyyīn — the Physician of the ʿAlids — in recognition of the many accounts of healing associated with the site. The attribution deserves honest treatment. The name Sharīfa does not appear in the classical nasab literature among the recorded daughters of al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī. Scholarly opinions vary: one tradition holds she was a young child who died during the march of captives between Kufa and Damascus after the events of Karbala; another suggests she was a later descendant of al-Ḥasan al-Muthannā; and a third research-based view proposes the person buried here is Sharaf al-Ashrāf , a daughter of the seventh-century scholar Sayyid ibn Ṭāwūs, himself of Ḥasanid descent. Despite this uncertainty, the site is mentioned by Muḥammad Ḥarza al-Dīn in Marāqid al-Maʿārif as a genuine and ancient place of visitation, well-known in the villages of the area for generations under the name al-ʿAlawiyya Sharīfa bint al-Ḥasan . The maqām began as a small dome in the 1940s and has been gradually developed through donations from pilgrims in Iraq and abroad. A new ḍarīḥ was installed in 2021.