MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
The compiler of the Jāmiʿ — the collection that grades its own ḥadīth — dies blind at Tirmidh on the Oxus.
Six days above the Yarmūk gorge end Roman rule in Syria; Heraclius’s farewell to the province became proverbial.
The founder of the Shāfiʿī school died in Egypt at 54, leaving uṣūl al-fiqh itself as his monument.
The jurist of Kūfah and eponym of the largest madhhab dies in Baghdad, imprisoned for refusing the judgeship.