Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Syriac sources—from Ramla and Antioch to Constantinople, Baghdad, and Cairo—describe comparable effects of the 1033/4 CE Palestine Quake(s) in Jerusalem: collapsed city walls, partial destruction of the al-Aqsa Mosque and nearby convents and churches, fallen vaults and domes, shattered prayer niches, and loss of life, followed by aftershocks and major reconstruction efforts under Fatimid authority.

Contemporaeous source Yahya of Antioch wrote from Antioch that “part of the great mosque of Jerusalem collapsed, as well as convents and churches in its province.” This independent account details serious wall collapses in major religious structures, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Christian monasteries.

Baghdadi historian Ibn al-Jawzi added architectural precision: “part of the city walls of Jerusalem collapsed, a large piece fell off the prayer niche (miḥrāb) of David [in Al-Aqsa Mosque], but the Mosque of the Rock was not damaged.” Two later writers preserved or reitereated al-Jawzi's account. Bar Hebraeus noted that “portions of the walls of the Temple in Jerusalem fell down,” and as-Suyūṭī, citing Ibn al-Jawzi as his source, echoed that the wall of Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) collapsed as did a part of the Miḥrāb of Dāwūd in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Archaeological corroboration appears in later architectural inscriptions. Restoration of the Haram outer wall and the Aqsa Mosque under the Fatimid caliph al-Ẓāhir is recorded by Le Strange (1890:101-102), who cites an inscription dated 425 A.H. (1033/4 CE) mentioning repair of the southern and eastern outer walls and another inscription observed by Ali of Herat in 1173 CE, recording the restoration and re-gilding of the Dome of the Aqsa in A.H. 426 (1034/5 CE).