Ibn 'Asakir writes Fadl 'Asqalan and the Arba'in on jihad after the fall of Ascalon, 548/1153

ابن عساكر يصنّف «فضل عسقلان» و«الأربعين في الاجتهاد في إقامة الجهاد» بعد سقوط عسقلان، ٥٤٨هـ/١١٥٣م

c. 1153 CE · 548 AH

After the Franks took Ascalon in 548/1153, Ibn 'Asakir — an Ash'ari who fought whatever cast a slur on the Sunna — wrote Fadl 'Asqalan exhorting the Muslims to recapture the town, and a collection of forty hadiths, al-Arba'in fi al-ijtihad fi iqamat al-jihad, exalting the virtues of jihad in support of Nur al-Din's religious policy ¹.

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Death of Nur al-Din Mahmud

Death of Nur al-Din Mahmud ibn Zangi, lord of Syria, the Jazira and Egypt's overlord — Wednesday 11 Shawwal 569, of quinsy, in the small prayer-cell he kept in Damascus citadel; refusing cupping ('a man of sixty is not bled'), buried in the citadel then translated to his madrasa by Suq al-Khawwassin. He had been mustering armies from Mosul and the Jazira to take Egypt from Saladin when death overtook him. Ibn al-Athir's verdict: after the Rashidun and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz he read of no king's conduct finer or more scrupulous in justice.

Ibn 'Asakir writes Fadl 'Asqalan and the Arba'in on jihad after the fall of Ascalon, 548/1153

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