26 results for “Umar”
Clear filter...e governor of al-Mada'in (Ctesiphon) under the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab رضي الله عنه. He died in approximately 36 AH...
...he famous Persian carpet and the crown jewels, were sent to Umar in Medina.
...but insisted the keys be handed only to the Caliph himself. Umar ibn al-Khattab made the journey personally from Medina to r...
Umar ordered Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas to establish Kufa as a garrison...
...-As had led a Muslim force of roughly 4,000 into Egypt with Umar's cautious blessing, and received reinforcements including ...
Umar ibn al-Khattab was stabbed by Abu Lu'lu'ah Firuz, a Persian...
... Sufyan — who had ruled Syria as governor since the time of Umar — and with his own forces fragmented by treachery and low m...
... by a force numbering in the thousands under the command of Umar ibn Sa'd. Denied access to water for three days, Husayn and...
...Arab positions from the rear. When Caliph Sulayman died and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz assumed the caliphate, one of his first act...
The accession of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz to the caliphate in 99 AH represented a str...
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's short caliphate of two and a half years (...
...imination against non-Arab Muslims — despite the reforms of Umar II — fueled revolutionary sentiment in Khurasan. When Hisha...
...lims — an arrangement that continued until the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab. The conquest secured the northern flank of ...
... he would only surrender the keys to the Caliph himself, so Umar ibn al-Khattab travelled from Medina to accept the surrende...
...by sea. Amr entered the city peacefully and wrote to Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab describing its vastness: 'I have taken a cit...
The Battle of Karbala is one of the most tragic events in Islamic history. Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet ﷺ and son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, refused t
...the Crusader conquest and the earlier Muslim conquest under Umar ibn al-Khattab — which was entirely peaceful — became a pow...
...ntry. Amr ibn al-As had entered Egypt in 639 CE with Caliph Umar's reluctant permission, his original force of only about 4,...
...aq for a time. Abu Bakr had already died by this point, and Umar ibn al-Khattab had to rebuild morale and reorganize the Ira...
...he Rashidun era, pushing into the Caucasus mountain passes. Umar ibn al-Khattab commissioned Suraqah ibn Amr to lead a campa...
After the heavy loss of Quran memorizers at Yamama, Umar convinced Abu Bakr to compile the Quran into a single manus...
Umar's decade as caliph saw the greatest territorial expansion i...
Patriarch Sophronius surrendered Jerusalem to Caliph Umar personally. Umar entered humbly, wearing patched clothes. H...
Often called the fifth Rightly Guided Caliph. He reversed Umayyad excesses, stopped the cursing of Ali from pulpits, redistributed wealth, and ordered the first
Ibn Tumart, the founder of the Almohad movement in North Africa, died...
Imam Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir, the renowned Shafi'i scholar and historian, die...