Mujir al-Din Chains of Transmission
Two Jerusalem families which provided chains of transmitters
- Salama b. Qaysar, with all its branches
- that of `Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Mansur b. Thabit
Elad (1995:78-79)
One such tradition (with an isnad of the family of `Abd al-Rabman, the Jerusalemite) relates that Abtu `Uthman al-Ansari used to spend the nights of Ramadan in prayer on the Black Paving-Stone. This tradition, in which legendary elements, miracles, etc. are interwoven, also describes the earthquake of 130/748 and its effect on the Dome of the Rock.6Elad (1995:40)
Footnotes
6 Al-Wasiti, p. 80, no. 135, and the parallel sources therein.
In the year 130/747-748 there was an earthquake which apparently destroyed the eastern and western walls of al-Aqsa Mosque.79Praise of Jerusalem References
Footnotes
79 Al-Wasiti, pp. 83-84, no. 137; see also ibid., pp. 79—81, nos. 133-135; al-Dhahabi, Ta'rikh, (Beirut, hawddith wa-wafayat 120-140), pp. 29-30; [Cairo ed., 1367 H., vol. V, p. 39] for an interesting description of the earthquake which hit Jerusalem and destroyed the house of Shaddad b. Aws, the Companion of the Prophet; on this, see also Gil, op. cit., pp. 89-90, no. 102 [= vol. I, p. 74]; al-Suyiiti, Kashf al $alsala, fol. 422a; Nujam, vol. I, p. 311, II. 12-14; Le Strange, Palestine, p. 92.
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