MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
Fourteen days on the desert road end at a small oasis village — the journey that begins the calendar itself.
The imam of Madinah, author of the Muwaṭṭaʾ, dies in the city he almost never left, in his mid-eighties.
During the days at Qubāʾ the first mosque of Islam is laid out — "founded upon taqwā from the first day".
The caliph accepts the city’s surrender in person and grants the assurance later known as the Pact of ʿUmar.