The brickwork shows signs of clumsiness, with thick brownish mortar filling gaps at corners where angled bricks were not used.

Despite its modest height relative to width, the tall blind arches on each face create a sense of verticality.

All surfaces are covered with plaster, which has recently been given an unhappy coating of green on the inscription, light blue below it and white above.

The fourteenth century tomb towers of Qom, e.g. the Imamzada Ja'far, present close parallels.

The remains of stucco decoration on the double minaret portal at Qum was probably one factor in its attribution to c. 1325 when in fact the date 830/1426-27 is preserved on one of the minarets.The importance of the Imamzada Husain Rida lies in the extension of the terminus ante quem for this type of stucco decoration, which had died out by the middle of the fifteenth century.