MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
The jurist and ḥadīth scholar of Damascus, author of Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn, dies in his home village of Nawā aged 45.
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.
Al-Manṣūr breaks ground on the Round City between the rivers — capital of the ʿAbbāsids and, soon, of the world’s learning.