فتنة سنة 422 بين السنة والرافضة ببغداد

In Rabi' al-Awwal 422 AH strife flared up again in Baghdad between the people of the Sunna and the Rafida, as Ibn al-Jawzi relates in "al-Muntazam". The two parties are named here in the source's own terms. ¹

al-Khazraji, a Sufi, went to the great mosque to read a proclamation from the caliphal palace. The common people shouted in front of him, invoking Abu Bakr and Umar. The people of al-Karkh opposed them and threw things at them, so the strife broke out and prayer was prevented. ¹

The houses of the Jews were plundered, and some were burned, because it was said that they had helped the people of al-Karkh. The people of the Sunna gathered the next day and made for al-Karkh, burning and demolishing its markets. The caliph al-Qadir wrote to disapprove and ordered that the penalty be carried out on the guilty. Several markets burned. Then the people of other quarters fought one another, until the bridge was cut to separate them, and the rowdies (ayyarun) entered the city. ¹