পৃষ্ঠা 91: প্রথম অধ্যায়: দূরবর্তী আলামতসমূহ যা ইতিমধ্যে প্রকাশ পেয়ে অতিক্রান্ত হয়েছে

Mention of the Removal of the Black Stone by the Qarmatians and Its Return

...al-Asfar al-A'rabi, and he prevented them from passing through except upon paying a toll (al-baj), so they turned back and did not perform Hajj; nor did the people of the Levant (al-Sham) or Yemen perform Hajj, but only the people of Egypt performed Hajj.

And the pilgrimage along the Syrian route was cut off for several years during the Ottoman era, in the time of Shaykh 'Alwan al-Hamawi.

In the year 392 AH, the Egyptians were the only ones to perform Hajj, and no one from Baghdad or the eastern lands performed Hajj due to the corruption and mischief of the Bedouins; and likewise in the year 393 AH.

In the year 397 AH, the Egyptians alone performed Hajj, and the people of Iraq did not perform Hajj due to the insecurity of the road caused by the Bedouins.

In the year 407 AH, the Egyptians were again the only ones, and no one else performed Hajj; and likewise in the year 408 AH.

In the year 417 AH, the Egyptians again were the only ones to perform Hajj, and no one else performed it.

In the year 418 AH, no one performed Hajj, neither from the East nor from Egypt or anywhere else, except for a party from Khurasan who performed Hajj by sea.

In the year 433 AH, the Hajj was completely disrupted from all regions, and from the following year until the year 440 AH, no one performed Hajj except the people of Egypt. Al-Suyuti mentioned all of this in 'Husn al-Muhadarah'.

Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar mentioned in 'Inba' al-Ghumr' that in the third, fourth, and fifth years after eight hundred (803, 804, and 805 AH), no one performed Hajj via the Syrian route, after Timur invaded the Levant and wreaked havoc therein.

As for the removal of the Black Stone, it occurred during the caliphate of al-Muqtadir. This was because al-Muqtadir dispatched the pilgrims safely to Mecca under the leadership of Mansur al-Dayli. Then, on the Day of Tarwiyah, the enemy of Allah, Abu Tahir al-Qarmati, confronted them and massacred the pilgrims inside the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram) with horrific slaughter. He cast the corpses into the Well of Zamzam, struck the Black Stone with an iron mace and fractured it, and then uprooted it. He remained there for eleven days, after which they departed, and the Black Stone remained in their possession for more than twenty years. Fifty thousand dinars were offered to them for its return, but they refused to surrender it until it was finally returned during the caliphate of al-Muti'.