Little Ruqayya (SA) was martyred in Levants, today's Syria, as the tyrant of the time Yazid I took captive the household of Imam Hussain (AS) after martyring him in the Karbala desert.
The pilgrims who come to visit the shrine of Hazrat Ruqayya (SA) bring dolls to put there in commemoration of her childhood and the oppression Yazid practiced on her.
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