MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
The compiler of the Ṣaḥīḥ dies at Nīshāpūr at about 55 — felled, the story goes, by a night lost in a single ḥadīth.
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.
Four days on the desert’s edge break Sasanian field power; Ctesiphon and Iraq follow.