The Plague of 839
طاعون سنة 839هـ
c. 1435 CE · 839 AH
839's plague wave: four months at Bursa, then Oman, Herat — where the dead were reckoned at 800,000 — all Yemen, the Berber lands and Abyssinia 1.
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Summary
Ibn al-Imad, in Shadharat al-Dhahab, records a wide wave of plague for 839 AH. It began with a great plague in Persia that lasted four months, and then the epidemic reached the land of Oman. 1
Spread
The plague spread in Herat, and the source says it was said that eight hundred thousand people died there. The epidemic then spread through all of Yemen, the lands of the Berbers and Abyssinia. 1
The date of the event is derived from the Hijri year. The source cited here does not name a specific page; it needs an additional source.
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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islam.museum contributors. “The Plague of 839”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/plague-839/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.