Narrations tell that the original box was found in a reliquary – where the belongings of the Ahlul-Bayet (Peace Be Upon Them) were – in Medina, and at that time, an Ottoman ruler asked to take the box to Istanbul, Turkey, after the toppling of the Ottoman State.
After Saddam was toppled, the Imam Hussein Holy Shrine made a replica of the box and exhibited at the Imam Hussein museum.