At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
In Rabi' I 285 the postmaster wrote from Kufa: a yellow wind rose, turned black while the people were in supplication, then the sky rained hard with continuous thunder and lightning — and the village of Ahmadabadh rained white and black stones. From Basra: the wind rose after Friday yellow, then green, then black, with rain such as had never been seen; hail fell, single stones weighing a hundred and fifty dirhams; the wind uprooted five hundred palms on the River al-Hasan and a hundred on the River Ma'qil; the Tigris swelled beyond all memory and many buildings around it collapsed 2.
Connections
People and things also explored
Great Mosque of Basra· Great Mosque of Kufa· Qasr Qubadh / the Hajjaj palace at Basra· Ali burns people in Kufa who claimed he was God· Ali burns the village of Zarara where wine was sold· ʿAli's dispatch of his own governors to the garrison towns (36 AH)· Ali enters Kufa in 36 AH· Ali's judgment on a slap over a debased dirham in Kufa
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 294-295
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Storm and hail at Kufa and Basra, 285”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/kufa-basra-storm-285/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.