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Al-Waqidi was born in Medina around 748 AD (130 AH).He was the mawla (client) of ‘Abd Allah ibn Burayda of the Banu Aslam of Medina. According to Abu Faraj al-Isfahani, al-Waqidi’s mother was the daughter of ‘Isa ibn Ja‘far ibn Sa’ib Khathir, a Persian, and the great-granddaughter of Sa’ib, who introduced music to Medina. [4]
Al-Wāqiʻa[ 1] ( Arabic: الواقعة; "The Inevitable" [ 2] or "The Event" [ 3]) is the 56th surah (chapter) of the Quran. Muslims believe it was revealed in Mecca (see Meccan surah ), specifically around 7 years before the Hijrah (622), the migration of Muhammad to Medina. [ 4] The total number of verses in this surah is 96.
Al-Wadiah War. The al-Wadiah War was a military conflict which broke out on 27 November 1969 between Saudi Arabia and the People's Republic of South Yemen (PRSY) after disputes for the town of al-Wadiah on the PRSY-Saudi Arabian border. The conflict ended on 6 December when Saudi forces captured al-Wadiah. [4] [5]
Sind (Sindhi: سنڌ) was an administrative division of the Umayyad Caliphate and later of the Abbasid Caliphate in post-classical India, from around 711 CE with the Umayyad conquest of Sindh by the Arab military commander Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, to around 854 CE with the emergence of the independent dynasties of the Habbarid Emirate and the Emirate of Multan.
Najashi. 1314 manuscript illustration by Rashid ad-Din. Aṣ-ḥamah also spelt as Aṣ-ḥama ( Arabic: أَصْحَمَة ), was the Negus ( Arabic: ٱلنَّجَاشِيّ, romanized : An-Najāshī) ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum who reigned from 614–630 C.E.. [ 1] It is agreed by Muslim scholars that Najashi gave shelter to Muslim ...
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Zīj as-Sindhind ( Arabic: زيج السندهند الكبير, Zīj as‐Sindhind al‐kabīr, lit. "Great astronomical tables of the Sindhind"; from Sanskrit siddhānta, "system" or "treatise") is a work of zij (astronomical handbook with tables used to calculate celestial positions) brought in the early 770s AD to the court of Caliph al ...
Al-Kindi was born in Kufa to an aristocratic family of the Arabian tribe of the Kinda, descended from the chieftain al-Ash'ath ibn Qays, a contemporary of Muhammad. [19] The family belonged to the most prominent families of the tribal nobility of Kufa in the early Islamic period, until it lost much of its power following the revolt of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath. [20]