26 Shawwāl 21 AH

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26 Shawwāl 21 AH · ≈ Friday 27 September 642

The author of the Tārīkh and the great Tafsīr — the chronicle this database leans on — dies in Baghdad at 85.

26 Shawwāl 310 AH16 Feb 923DayAttestedAbbasid · Iraq · Death

Month-precise — Spanning this month:

A confederacy of ten thousand besieges Madinah and breaks against a ditch, a windstorm, and three weeks of failure.

Shawwāl 5 AH≈ Mar 627MonthAttestedProphetic era · Hijaz · Battle

YEAR-PRECISE — THIS YEAR IN 21 AH

ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ plants the tent-city by the Babylon fortress — the seed of what will become Cairo.

21 AH≈ 642 CEYearTraditionalRashidun · Egypt · Founding

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7Battle of Uḥud3 AH · ≈ 23 Mar 625