At a glance
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
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In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
The siege
The army of the Ardamaniyyun (Ardamanīyūn) besieged it for forty days. Yusuf ibn Sulayman ibn Hud fell short in protecting it. The enemy entered the first city, and the people took refuge in the inner city. Then the channel that brought the water collapsed, the water was cut off, and people despaired of life. 2
The surrender
The people asked for safe-conduct for themselves, without their property and families, and the enemy granted it. Then he broke faith with them and killed more than six thousand of them, as Ibn Hayyan relates. 2
Connections
- Occurred at
- Barbastro
People and things also explored
Barbastro· Ahl al-Harb (the people at war with the Muslims, their status and the rules that govern dealings with them)· Anfal (spoils and the other gains taken from the enemy, and their divisions)· The angels at Badr· Dissuading others from fighting· Ghanima (spoils of war)· Hudna (truce with non-Muslims)· Hujna (hybridness, in the fiqh sense: spoils shares and speech)
Sources
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 449-452
- Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 449
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islam.museum contributors. “The Barbastro incident”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/barbastro-sack-456/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.