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Qarmatian killing of pilgrims in Mecca

Ibn Kathir reports that the Qarmatian attacker killed many pilgrims in Mecca, including within the Sacred Mosque and the Kaaba, on the Day of Tarwiya.

Limits: Arabic Wikisource revision 77205, part XI. Lines 4 and 10 identify AH 317 in words; line 40 explicitly supplies Mecca and the Day of Tarwiya. The quoted clause gives no numerical death toll. The surrounding narrative is confessionally hostile. An anonymously transmitted account at line 86 also places a killing in the Sacred Mosque on that day; it is not independent corroboration. Lines 58–64 present differing explanations of Qarmatian relations with the Fatimids, without contradicting this event’s date or location.

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