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The Killing of Abu Faqqas by Flogging

قتل أبي فقعس بالضرب

c. August 872 CE · Ramadan 258 AH

Samarra

On Thursday 7 Ramadan 258 a man known as Abu Faqqas, convicted by testimony of reviling the Salaf, was given fifty lashes and died 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Levant & Iraq
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860870880890 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation

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Samarra

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On Thursday with seven nights past of Ramadan 258 a man known as Abu Faqqas — convicted by testimony of reviling the Salaf — was given fifty lashes and died 1.

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  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 100
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al-Askari shrine (Samarra)

The al-Askari shrine at Samarra, holding the graves of Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari; the Mawsu'at al-Atabat (Samarra section) records its building history: Nasir al-Dawla the Hamdanid covered the grave in 333, Mu'izz al-Dawla the Buyid raised the dome and sirdab, Adud al-Dawla fenced the rawda in 368, Amir Arslan restored the dome in 445, Barkyaruq the Seljuk renewed the doors in 495, and the Abbasid al-Nasir rebuilt dome and minarets, inscribing the Twelve Imams' names on the arch ring in 606 — ornamentation continued under the Jalayirids and Safavids.