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Shams al-Din Ibn al-Muqaddam

شمس الدين ابن المقدم

c. 25 August 1187 CE · 10 Dhu al-Hijja 583 AH

Greatest of the Salahiyya amirs — given Saladin's leave after Jerusalem's fall to make Hajj from the Holy City itself, he led the great Syrian caravan of 583; refusing the Iraqi amir al-hajj's claim of precedence at Arafat, he was mortally wounded in the ensuing attack while holding his men from fighting for the sanctity of place and day, and died at Mina 1.

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Roles
military
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: أبو المحاسن الشواء · Ali ibn Isma'il al-Abyari · Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi · Al-Baydawi, Abd Allah ibn Umar · al-Jaghmini Mahmud ibn Muhammad

Overview

Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik, known as Ibn al-Muqaddam, one of the greatest Ayyubid (Salahi) emirs. After the conquest of Jerusalem in 583 AH, he asked Salah al-Din for permission to go on pilgrimage from Jerusalem, so that in that year he could combine holy war and the hajj. He was then appointed commander of the pilgrim caravan from Syria. 1

The day of Arafat

Ibn al-Athir relates that on the eve of Arafat he ordered his tents to be pitched. The emir of the Iraqi pilgrims, Mujir al-Din Tashtakin, confronted him and did not stop for him, so the Iraqis attacked the Syrian pilgrims. Ibn al-Muqaddam was wounded while restraining his companions from fighting, out of respect for the sanctity of the place and the day. 1

He died on the same day at Mina and was buried in the cemetery of al-Mu'alla in 583 AH. The conversion to the Gregorian calendar is derived. He is among those who took part in the clash at Arafat in 583 AH. 2

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Participated in
The Arafat clash and Ibn al-Muqaddam's killing (583 AH)

People and things also explored

Mujir al-Din Tashtakin· Mecca· The Arafat clash and Ibn al-Muqaddam's killing (583 AH)

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 162-163
  2. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir, p. 163
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Mujir al-Din Tashtakin

The Iraqi Hajj's amir — insisting the Syrian caravan could not depart Arafat before his, he rode out with his men and the Iraqi rabble; the assault on the Syrian pilgrims left their amir Ibn al-Muqaddam dead of wounds at Mina, though Tashtakin had taken him into his own tent to treat him and mend what had passed.