1. Ali was Assassinated by Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Amr ibn Muljam al-Muradi, a Kharijite from Egypt.Ibn Muljam was of Himyar paternally, but was counted among the Murad due to his maternal kinship, and allied with the Bani Jabala of Kindah.He had entered Kufa with the aim of killing Ali to avenge the Kharijite leaders at Al-Nahrawan.: 308 In Kufa, he encountered a group of people from Taym al-Ribab