موتان الجدري والوباء ٤٢٢–٤٢٥

موتان الجدري والوباء ٤٢٢–٤٢٥

تقریباً 1031 عیسوی · 422 ھ – تقریباً 1034 عیسوی · 425 ھ

بغداد → أصفهان → الموصل

The deaths ran on for four years. In 422 rain came late, bodies dried out, coughing and sickness multiplied, to the point that the sale of broth boomed. In 423 the epidemic spread over India, Ghazna, Khurasan, Jurjan and al-Rayy; forty thousand were buried in Isfahan within a few days, and in the land of al-Jibal, while four thousand boys died of smallpox in Mosul, and smallpox swept Baghdad from April to October so that no house was spared. In 424 smallpox befell the caliph himself when he entered the bath, and he was lifted out of it. In 425 death multiplied, especially among women in al-Hawaniq, and it was said that in Dhu al-Hijjah seventy thousand died in Baghdad ^{1 2 3 4 5}.