Page 103: Part 1: Distant Signs that Have Appeared and Passed

Mention of the remaining accounts of the plague

Supplementary Note: Mention of what al-Tanukhi recorded in "Nishwar al-Muhadarah" concerning sudden death

Then in the year 299 AH, in the land of Persia.

Then in the year 301 AH, in Baghdad.

Then in the year 324 AH, in Isfahan.

Then in the year 346 AH, in Iraq, and sudden death became widespread during it, to the point that a judge put on his clothes to go out to adjudicate, and he died while putting on one of his boots.

Supplementary Note

I saw in the book "Nishwar al-Muhadarah" by al-Tanukhi that sudden death befell people in every state: among them was one who died while praying, one who died while eating, one who died while walking, one who died in the central mosque, and one who died in the bathhouse.

And in all circumstances except for one state, which is the delivery of the sermon (khutbah); for it has never been reported that an orator died suddenly upon the pulpit.

Then it occurred in the year 400 AH in Basra.

Then in the year 423 AH, a great plague occurred in the lands of India, the non-Arab realms (al-Ajam), and the mountainous region (Bilad al-Jabal), and it extended to Baghdad. People perished in vast numbers, and they had never witnessed the like of it. In this year, four thousand children died of smallpox in Mosul.

Then it occurred in Shiraz in the year 425 AH, and reached Basra and Baghdad.

Then in the year 439 AH, in Mosul, the Jazira region, and Baghdad, such that only four hundred people performed the Friday prayer in Basra, whereas they had previously numbered more than four hundred thousand.

Then it occurred in the year 448 AH in Egypt, the Levant (al-Sham), and Baghdad.

Then it occurred in the non-Arab lands in the year 449 AH.

Then it occurred in Egypt in the year 455 AH, and lasted there for ten months.

Then in Damascus in the year 469 AH; its inhabitants had numbered around five hundred thousand, yet none remained of them except three thousand five hundred.