This shrine is located in the province of Maysan, and the city of Al-Rifai has been attributed to the burial of the shrine of Sayyid Ahmad Al-Rifai, who is Abu Al-Abbas Ahmed bin Ali bin Ahmed, known as Sheikh Al-Rifai, a righteous man, a venerable sheikh, a scholar and jurist, and his lineage traced back to the Commander of the Faithful, Ali bin Abi Talib.
Nasser Pasha Al-Saadoun, the head of Al-Muntafiq, is considered the first to reconstruct the dome of this shrine in the year 1868 AD. Then the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid paid for the reconstruction of the fortress and the construction of the Minaret in 1889 AD. Ever since, repairs and restorations took place in various stages of time.
