MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
Struck at the dawn prayer in Kūfah by a Khārijite blade, the fourth caliph dies two days later — the end of the Rashidun age.
In the cave of Ḥirāʾ the first verses descend: "Recite, in the name of your Lord who created."
Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād breaks the Visigothic army and King Roderic falls; al-Andalus opens in a single Ramaḍān.
The caliph accepts the city’s surrender in person and grants the assurance later known as the Pact of ʿUmar.