The Arafat clash and Ibn al-Muqaddam's killing (583 AH)

In 583 AH, the year Jerusalem was conquered, a great number of pilgrims came from Syria. On the eve of Arafat a clash took place between the pilgrims of Syria and the pilgrims of Iraq near Mecca, which ended in the death of Shams al-Din Ibn al-Muqaddam, amir of the Syrian pilgrims. ²

Ibn al-Muqaddam, the senior of the Salahi emirs, ordered his drums beaten, which signalled the order to depart. Mujir al-Din Tashtakin, amir of the Iraqi pilgrims, sent to him forbidding him to depart before him. Ibn al-Muqaddam replied that Tashtakin had no say over him: he was the amir of the Syrian pilgrims and Tashtakin was the amir of the Iraqi pilgrims. He set out and did not stop. ²

Tashtakin rode out with his companions, and a large group of the Iraqi pilgrims followed him. They attacked the Syrian pilgrims, killed a number of them, plundered their property and took women captive, then returned them. Ibn al-Muqaddam was wounded while he restrained his companions from fighting, out of respect for the sanctity of the place and the day. ²

Tashtakin took him to his tent to treat him, and he died that day at Mina and was buried in the cemetery of al-Mu'alla. Ibn al-Athir says that he was granted martyrdom, after striving and witnessing the conquest of Jerusalem. ²

The Gregorian date is derived and rests on a single source. It needs an additional source.