7 Shawwāl 21 AH

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7 Shawwāl 21 AH · ≈ Sunday 8 September 642

Quraysh returns in force; victory slips away when the archers leave the hill, and Ḥamzah is among the seventy martyrs.

7 Shawwāl 3 AH≈ 23 Mar 625DayTraditionalProphetic era · Hijaz · Battle

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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