Century calamities (fitan al-mi'at)

A historical rule that al-Suyuti cites at the end of Tarikh al-khulafa', from Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn al-As (may God be pleased with him): whatever has been since the world began, at the head of every hundred years there has been a matter. ²

• The first century: the tribulation of al-Hajjaj.
• The second: the tribulation of al-Ma'mun and his wars with his brother, then the testing of people over the createdness of the Qur'an, which he counts among the greatest tribulations of this community.
• The third: the rising of the Qarmatian and the tribulation of al-Muqtadir and the dispersal of unity, and from it began the Ubaydid state.
• The fourth: the tribulation of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
• The fifth: the Franks' seizure of Syria and Jerusalem.
• The sixth: a famine unheard of, and the beginning of the affair of the Tatars.
• The seventh: the great tribulation of the Tatars.
• The eighth: the tribulation of Timur Lang.

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Al-Suyuti asked God to take him before the tribulation of the ninth century. His student Jarmard al-Nasiri al-Hanafi said that it was the tribulation of Selim Shah ibn Uthman, his wars, and his entry into Egypt, and that God answered the prayer of his teacher. ²

This is the classification of al-Suyuti and his student, not a ruling by the museum.