MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
The night journey from Makkah to Jerusalem and the ascent through the heavens — affirmed in the Qurʾān, its exact date left open by the earliest sources.
The city surrenders after a two-week siege; the Aqṣā mosque is restored to prayer 88 years after the Crusader conquest.
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.