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Tikrit

تكريت

Town on the Tigris; in al-Baladhuri raided by al-Nusayr and Hudhayfa ibn Mihsan after the Day of the Bridge, its people then safe-conducted with a written document that Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami enforced when opening al-Tirhan and Mosul.

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Era
The Rashidun Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Overview

Tikrit is a city on a river. The Arabic text in our data says that the river is the Euphrates, while the English version says it is the Tigris; an additional source is needed. According to al-Baladhuri, al-Nusayr and Hudhayfa ibn Mihsan raided it after the Day of the Bridge and took plunder of cattle and sheep. It is related from Abu Mas'ud that the two gave its people safe conduct and wrote them a letter, which Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami carried out when he conquered Tirhan and Mosul. 1

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Birthplace of
Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub)
Site of
al-Nusayr and Hudhayfa's Raid toward Tikrit
Contains
The Great Snowfall of Baghdad in 398

People and things also explored

Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt· the great battle at Acre — the sieges fiercest day· the Ayyubid shuffle — al-Adil to Aleppo, al-Aziz to Egypt· The scare over the conjunction of six planets in Libra in 582 AH· The battle of the Ford of Sorrows (Jacob's Ford, 575 AH)· Battle of Arsuf· Battle of Hattin· Battle of Jacob's Ford

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition) , p.348
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Ending the Ubaydid Khutba and Restoring the Abbasid Khutba in Egypt

Al-Imad al-Katib: Salah al-Din opened the year 567 with Egypt's greatest obedience — the Abbasid khutba, first Jumu'a at Fustat's mosque, the second at Cairo; al-Adid died that Ashura, and the palace's treasures sold for ten years. Shihab al-Din ibn Abi Asrun bore the news to Baghdad, and al-Imad wrote a general proclamation read across the lands of Islam — 'no minbar remains in those lands but the khutba for our lord al-Mustadi' is upon it'. Ibn al-Athir adds: Nur al-Din ordered it, Salah al-Din feared an Egyptian rising, and the Ajami called al-Amir al-Alim mounted the minbar before the khatib and prayed for al-Mustadi' — 'not two goats butted over it'. The khutba spread to Yemen, Barqa, Tawzar and Egypt to Aswan; Ibn al-Jawzi wrote his book al-Nasr ala Misr.