পৃষ্ঠা 105: প্রথম অধ্যায়: দূরবর্তী আলামতসমূহ যা ইতিমধ্যে প্রকাশ পেয়ে অতিক্রান্ত হয়েছে

Mention of the Desecration of Makkah

Then in the year twenty-one [after eight hundred].

Then in the year that followed it.

Then in the year eight hundred and thirty-three, which was the most widespread of all these plagues.

Nothing similar to this had occurred in Egypt after the Black Death (the general plague) that took place in the year seven hundred and forty-nine.

Then it occurred in the year forty-one in Egypt, and it was mild, with the daily death toll reaching at most one thousand souls.

Then it occurred in the year forty-nine in the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, and it lasted until Rabi' al-Awwal in the year fifty.

Then in the year fifty-three, and it reached five thousand deaths each day.

Then in the year sixty-four in Egypt and al-Sham (the Levant).

Then in the year seventy-three in both of them.

Then in the year eight hundred and eighty-one.

Then in the land of Rum (Anatolia) in the year eight hundred and ninety-six, and it entered Aleppo at the beginning of the year ninety-seven.

Then it reached Egypt in the month of Rabi' al-Akhir of that year; may Allah conclude it favorably in goodness.

This is the statement of al-Hafiz al-Suyuti (may Allah have mercy on him).

And many plagues occurred after him as well, the detailed mention of which would be lengthy.

And among them is: the desecration of the sanctity of Makkah:

On the authority of al-Husayn ibn Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when he set out for Kufa and they advised him against departing, he said: 'Indeed, my father narrated to me that its sanctity will be violated, and that I be killed a handspan outside of it is dearer to me than being killed inside it...' to the end of the hadith.

And this occurred in the time of Yazid as previously mentioned, and in the time of Abd al-Malik when he dispatched al-Hajjaj, who killed Ibn al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) and destroyed the House, and during the time of Abu Tahir al-Qarmati as also previously mentioned.