Complex sentence: He was taken along with his family to Samarra in the year 230,231 or 232 A.H., and was kept there under house arrest; thus there is doubt as to whether his son, al-Askari, was born in Medina or Samarra.
Split into simpler sentences: He was taken along with his family to Samarra in the year 230,231 or 232 A.H., and was kept there under house arrest. There is doubt as to whether his son, al-Askari, was born in Medina or Samarra.