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Fire in the Sacred Mosque in 802 AH

At the end of Shawwal 802 AH a great fire broke out in the Sacred Mosque at Mecca and consumed about a third of it ¹.

One hundred and thirty marble columns were burned to lime. What burned extended from the Gate of ʿUmra to the Gate of al-Hazura ¹.

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Occurred at: Mecca

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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

Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 21

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islam.museum contributors. “The great fire of the Sacred Mosque, 802”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/mecca-haram-fire-802/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-18.

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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.