26 Shawwāl 50 AH

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26 Shawwāl 50 AH · ≈ Saturday 16 November 670

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 50 AH

ʿUqba ibn Nāfiʿ plants a permanent camp on the Ifrīqiyan steppe — the base that anchors Islam in the Maghreb.

50 AH≈ 670 CEYearTraditionalUmayyad · Maghreb · Founding

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