صاعقة المسجد النبوي سنة 886هـ

صاعقة المسجد النبوي سنة 886هـ

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In Ramadan 886 a lightning strike burned the Prophet's noble Mosque — its roof, stores, book-treasury and lodgings, little of its arches and pillars left standing; some recited over it: 'the Prophet's sanctuary burned for no suspicion feared upon him nor any stain — but the Rawafid's hands touched those traces and fire purified them'. On 17 Muharram of the same year a tremendous quake struck Mecca, the like unheard of ¹.