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The Black Stone (Arabic: ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد, romanized: al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradition, dates back to the time of Adam and ...
Al-Hajar al-Aswad (Arabic: اَلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَدُ, romanized: al-Ḥajaru l-Aswad, lit. 'The Black Stone') is a Syrian city just 4 km (2 mi) south of the centre of Damascus in the Darayya District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate .
The Ḥajar al-Aswad (Arabic: الحجر الأسود, romanized: al-Hajar al-Aswad, lit. 'The Black Stone'), is located on the Kaaba's eastern corner. It is the location where Muslims start their circumambulation of the Kaaba, known as the tawaf.
Abu Tahir Sulayman al-Jannabi (Arabic: أبو طاهر سلیمان الجنّابي, romanized: Abū Tāhir Sulaymān al-Jannābī, Persian: ابوطاهر بهرام گناوهای, romanized: Abū-Tāher Bahrām Gonāve'i) was a Persian warlord and the ruler of the Qarmatian state in Bahrayn.
[1] [4] According to legend, when the Hajr Al-Aswad (Black Stone) was stolen from Mecca by the Qarmatians, it was kept in this mosque for nearly 22 years. [3] [unreliable source] Before the 2007 restoration, most of the mosque's original structure had fallen apart, with only a small number of its arches surviving.
[8] [9] Eventually, from Qatar, he captured Bahrain's capital Hajr and al-Hasa in 899, which he made the capital of his state and once in control of the state he sought to set up a utopian society. The Qarmaṭians instigated what one scholar termed a "century of terror" in Kufa. [ 25 ]
Al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣahābah (Arabic: الإصابة في تمييز الصحابة; A Morning in the Company of the Companions) is a multivolume commentary Sunni hadith collection book by Ibn Hajar Al Asqalani.
The Sack of Mecca occurred on 11 January 930, when the Qarmatians of Bahrayn sacked the Muslim holy city amidst the rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage.. The Qarmatians, a radical Isma'ili sect established in Bahrayn since the turn of the 9th century, had previously attacked the caravans of Hajj pilgrims and even invaded and raided Iraq, the heartland of the Abbasid Caliphate, in 927–928.