MAWAQIT
MAWAQIT
The author of the Tārīkh and the great Tafsīr — the chronicle this database leans on — dies in Baghdad at 85.
A confederacy of ten thousand besieges Madinah and breaks against a ditch, a windstorm, and three weeks of failure.
The caliph accepts the city’s surrender in person and grants the assurance later known as the Pact of ʿUmar.