وفاة المأمون

al-Ma'mun died in 218 AH and was taken from the frontier lands near Tarsus to Tarsus, where he was buried, according to al-Tabari. ¹ His brother Abu Ishaq al-Mu'tasim led the funeral prayer over him. ²

al-Suyuti relates that al-Ma'mun camped at the spring of al-Bandun in the lowest part of the Byzantine lands, and its coolness and clearness pleased him. He saw a fish in it that was caught, and a shivering came upon him. He asked the name of the place and was told al-Raqqa, and he had learned from the reckoning of his birth that he would die at al-Raqqa, so he despaired. ³

al-Suyuti mentions a report that the text naming his brother Abu Ishaq was written by his command, and another that it was written during a faint that befell him. He gives his death as Thursday, twelve nights before the end of Rajab 218 AH. ³