Fragments of Gold in the Accounts of Those Who Have Departed by Ibn al-Imad

Shadharat al-dhahab fi akhbar man dhahab by إبن العماد

Aliases

Aliases	Arabic
Ibn al-ʿImād	إبن العماد
ʿAbd al-Ḥayy bin Aḥmad bin Muḥammad ibn al-ʿImād al-ʿAkarī al-Ḥanbalī Abū al-Falāḥ	عبد الحي بن أحمد بن محمد ابن العماد العكري الحنبلي أبو الفلاح

Background and Biography

Background and Biography

Excerpts

English from Sbeinati et al. (2005)

• from Sbeinati et al. (2005)

An earthquake caused heavy shaking in Damascus since morning for 3 hours, destroying houses and displacing huge stones and breaking many windows of Souks and killing many people under debris. Many terraces of Ommyad Mosque the Great fell down, a quarter of its minaret fell down. A village in Al-Ghoutah was overturned on its inhabitants unless one person survived. It was strong at Antioch and Al-Mousel where more than 2000 houses collapsed over their residents and 20000 victims. (Ibn Al-Imad)

English machine translated from Arabic

• from Fragments of Gold in the Accounts of Those Who Have Departed

A.H. 233

Damascus shook violently from the rising of the forenoon, that is, for three hours, as he said in “Al-Ibr” [1]. Then the houses collapsed from it and the great stones were removed, and several streams of rain fell from the markets on those in it, killing many people. Some of the balconies of the mosque, a quarter of its minaret was cut off, a village of Ghouta collapsed on its people, and only one man survived. The earthquakes intensified in Antioch and Mosul, and more than two thousand houses fell on its people, killing them, and twenty thousand of its people died, and more than two hundred orchards were lost. A palm tree has its roots, but no trace remains of it. I finish

Arabic - embedded

• from Fragments of Gold in the Accounts of Those Who Have Departed

Chronology

Date	Reference	Corrections	Notes
17 August 847 CE - 4 August 848 CE	A.H. 233	none	Calculated using CHRONOS

Seismic Effects

• An earthquake caused heavy shaking in Damascus since morning for 3 hours, destroying houses and displacing huge stones and breaking many windows of Souks and killing many people under debris. Many terraces of Ommyad Mosque the Great fell down, a quarter of its minaret fell down.
• A village in Al-Ghoutah was overturned on its inhabitants unless one person survived.
• It was strong at Antioch and Al-Mousel where more than 2000 houses collapsed over their residents and 20000 victims.

Locations

• Damascus
• A village in Al-Ghoutah
• Antioch
• Al-Mousel

Online Versions and Further Reading

References

Notes

Ambraseys (2009) terminology

As he is sometimes wont to do, Ambraseys (2009) refers to Ibn al-Imad by a less common variant of his name - Ibn al-Hanbali.