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Death of al-Shaykh al-Tusi at Najaf, Muharram 460/1067

وفاة الشيخ الطوسي بالنجف، المحرم ٤٦٠هـ

c. November 1067 CE · Muharram 460 AH

Najaf

Abu Ja'far al-Tusi, shaykh and scholar of the Shi'a, died at the blessed Mashhad of Ali in Najaf in Muharram 460/1067 1 (EI2 gives 459 or 460 2); he was buried there, and the Shaykh al-Tusi mosque by the shrine's north gate — Bab al-Tusi — holds his tomb 3.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Levant & Iraq
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1050106010701080 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Najaf

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Abu Ja'far al-Tusi died at the blessed Mashhad of Najaf in Muharram 460/1067 and was buried there; the Shaykh al-Tusi mosque holds his tomb 1 3.

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Storming of al-Tusi's Karkh house and his refuge in Najaf, Safar 449/1057· al-Shaykh al-Tusi· Najaf· Death of al-Shaykh al-Mufid and al-Sharif al-Murtada's succession, 413/1022· Restoration of the Sunni Adhan in Karkh and Restrictions on the Shi'a· Al-Tusi's arrival in Baghdad, 408/1017· Al-Tusi succeeds al-Murtada as head of Baghdad's Shi'a, 436/1044· Imam Ali shrine (Najaf)

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Islam wa-Wafayat al-Mashahir wa-l-A'lam — al-Dhahabi , p. 490
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 10 p. 745
  3. Mawsu'at al-Atabat al-Muqaddasa — Ja'far al-Khalili (Samarra section)
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Storming of al-Tusi's Karkh house and his refuge in Najaf, Safar 449/1057

In Safar 449 the Karkh house of Abu Ja'far al-Tusi, the Shi'i's theologian, was stormed: his notebooks, the chair on which he sat to teach, and three white mangonels that Karkh pilgrims used to carry to the Kufa visitation were all taken out and burned in the Karkh market. Al-Tusi took refuge in Najaf and stayed there until his death, teaching a limited circle of disciples including his son Abu Ali al-Hasan, who succeeded him.