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.
The caliph accepts the city’s surrender in person and grants the assurance later known as the Pact of ʿUmar.