The Qarmatians take the Black Stone

In 317 AH Abu Tahir al-Qarmati attacked the pilgrims in Mecca and tore the Black Stone away. ²

al-Muqtadir sent the pilgrim caravan with Mansur al-Daylami, and they reached Mecca safely. On the day of Tarwiya Abu Tahir met them, killed the pilgrims in the Sacred Mosque, and threw the dead into the well of Zamzam. He struck the Black Stone with a mace and broke it, then pulled it out, and stayed in Mecca eleven days before he departed. ²

The stone remained with them for more than twenty years. They were offered fifty thousand dinars for it and refused, until it was returned in the caliphate of al-Muti'. al-Suyuti relates that the Qarmatian climbed the door of the Ka'ba and made a claim about creation and annihilation, and that he did not prosper afterwards, and his body was consumed by smallpox. ²

Ibn al-Jawzi says that Abu Tahir al-Janabi met the pilgrims in Mecca on the day of Tarwiya, and killed them in the Sacred Mosque and in the passes. He removed the dome of the well of Zamzam, stripped the Ka'ba, and pulled out the door of the House. He sent one of his companions up to pull out the spout, and he fell and died. Some of the killed were buried in the mosque without prayer over them, and he returned to his country carrying the stone. ³

The events are described in the terms of the historians named, and the museum adds nothing to them.