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Death of al-Mansur

وفاة المنصور

c. October 775 CE · Dhu al-Hijja 158 AH

Mecca

In year 158 al-Mansur ordered his deputy at Mecca to imprison Sufyan al-Thawri and Abbad ibn Kathir, and fear spread that he would kill them on arrival for hajj; God did not bring him to Mecca in health — he arrived ill and died of his ailment in Dhu'l-Hijja and was buried between al-Hujun and Bi'r Maymun 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Arabia
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In time

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate

In space

Mecca

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Overview

In 158 AH al-Mansur ordered his deputy in Mecca to imprison Sufyan al-Thawri and Abbad ibn Kathir, and they were imprisoned. People feared that he would kill them when the pilgrimage arrived. 1

The death

al-Suyuti says that al-Mansur came back sick, and died of a bowel complaint in Dhu al-Hijja, and was buried between al-Hajun and the Well of Maymun, near Mecca. 1

Note

The Gregorian date (around October 775 CE) is derived by conversion, and the account comes from a single source. It needs an additional source.

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Had participant
Abu Ja'far al-Mansur· سفيان الثوري
Occurred at
Mecca

People and things also explored

Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· The Entry of Abd al-Rahman al-Dakhil into al-Andalus· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition) , p. 426
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Dar al-Nadwa

The council house founded by Qusayy on the north side of the mosque of the Kaaba, with its door into the mosque; Quraysh deliberated its grave matters and married off its daughters there.