The Fatimids built the Hussein Mosque on the site where their Caliphs are buried. The only mausoleum existing here today, however, is the Shrine (zarih) of Hussein which is attached to the Mosque. It is claimed that Hussein’s head is buried there. This defies history as Hussein was killed in Karbala and more likely rests in the Hussein Mosque in that Iraqi city. Cairo ignores these and the fact that Hussein was the son of Fatemah Zahra. Instead he is honored as the favorite grandson of the Prophet. The marble slab at the side of the mosque’s entrance quotes a hadith, reporting a saying by the Prophet: "Hussein is from me and I am from Hussein. May Allah love whoever loves Hussein”.