Qatada's assault on the Iraqi pilgrim caravan at Mina, 608

In the pilgrimage season of 608 AH Qatada al-Husayni, amir of Mecca, attacked the Iraqi caravan at Mina; the people fled and a group were killed. Ibn Imad says the people's losses were estimated at a hundred thousand dinars, and Ibn al-Athir gives the cause of the incident. ^{1 2}

Ibn Imad says in "Shadharat al-Dhahab" that Qatada pounced on the Iraqi caravan at Mina, the people fled and a group were killed. He says it is said that the people lost goods worth a hundred thousand dinars. ¹

Ibn al-Athir relates that a member of the Batiniyya pounced on one of Qatada's men at Mina and killed him, thinking he was Qatada. Qatada gathered the notables, the Arabs, the slaves and the people of Mecca, and they descended on the pilgrims from the mountain, pelting them with stones and arrows. The pilgrims' commander was a boy, the son of the amir Yaqut, and he was afraid and confused. ²

The amir of Mecca plundered those at the edges of the camp. Then the pilgrims set out, and those who escaped joined the pilgrims of Syria; they were prevented from entering Mecca, then permitted to enter and completed their pilgrimage. ²

Ibn al-Athir says that Qatada sent his son and a group of his companions to Baghdad, and they entered it with swords drawn and shrouds with them. They kissed the threshold and apologised for what had been done to the pilgrims. ²