Death of Imam al-Nasa'i at al-Ramla from the after-effects of the Damascus assault, 13 Safar 303/915

وفاة الإمام النسائي بالرملة من أثر الاعتداء بدمشق، ١٣ صفر ٣٠٣هـ

c. 1 September 915 CE · 13 Safar 303 AH

al-Ramla

Al-Nasa'i died on Monday, thirteen nights before the end of Safar, in 303/915 in Palestine — at al-Ramla on the preferred report, which al-Dhahabi judges correct — from the effects of what he suffered at Damascus when he was carried there 1 2; al-Daraqutni reports he had set out on hajj, was attacked at Damascus, and said 'carry me to Mecca', where he died and is buried between al-Safa and al-Marwa, in Sha'ban 303 1 3; scholars have counted him a martyr for dying of ill-treatment 4.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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Levant & Iraq
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Al-Nasa'i died on Monday, thirteen nights before the end of Safar, in 303/915 in Palestine — at al-Ramla on the preferred report, which al-Dhahabi judges correct — from the effects of what he suffered at Damascus 1 2.

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Al-Daraqutni reports he had set out on hajj, was attacked at Damascus, and said 'carry me to Mecca', where he died and is buried between al-Safa and al-Marwa, in Sha'ban 303 1 3; scholars have counted him a martyr for dying of ill-treatment 4.

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al-Nasa'i· al-Ramla· Atsiz ibn Uwaq's campaign against Syria· Saladin's Defeat at Ramla· Birth of Imam Ahmad ibn Shu'ayb al-Nasa'i at Nasa in Khurasan, 215/830· Earthquake at Ramla and the sea's recession, 425· The Founding of al-Ramla· The assault on al-Nasa'i in the mosque of Damascus over the virtues of Mu'awiya, c. Muharram 303/915

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 109
  2. Tadhkirat al-huffaz — al-Dhahabi , j.2 p. 620
  3. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan , i p. 26
  4. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 1023
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al-Nasa'i

The muhaddith of Nasa in Khurasan, author of the Sunan counted among the six books; he travelled for hadith through Khurasan, Iraq, al-Sham, Egypt, the Hijaz and the Jazira, settled in Egypt at Zuqaq al-Qanadil, then moved to Damascus late in life, was attacked over the virtues of Mu'awiya and died at al-Ramla in 303/915.