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The Great Mecca Flood of 859

سيل مكة العظيم 859هـ

between 1454 and 1455 CE · 859 AH

Mecca

859: a great torrent struck Mecca, entering the Haram until it nearly reached the Black Stone 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Mecca

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Overview

In 859 AH a great flood struck Mecca and entered the Sacred Sanctuary until it came close to the Black Stone. 1

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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· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone· Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 286
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islam.museum contributors. “The Great Mecca Flood of 859”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/mecca-flood-859/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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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.