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

(شذرات الذهب في أخبار من ذهب) by عبد الحي بن أحمد بن محمد ابن العماد العكري الحنبلي أبو الفلاح

Aliases

Aliases	Aliases
Ibn al-ʿImād	إبن العماد
Abd 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 Guidoboni et al (1994)

• from Guidoboni et al (1994)

During the night, the earth shook at Tiberias. The mountains shook, and then a big rock — eighty cubits by fifty — split open, and so... Many people died

English chracterization from Taher (1996)

• from Taher (1996)

239/854 : the earth trembles in Tiberias during the night; a rock 80 cubits long and 50 wide breaks away from the mountain causing numerous victims⁷³.

Footnotes

73 B. al-`Imâd, Shadharat, 2/91.

Chronology

During the night

Seismic Effects

• the earth shook at Tiberias
• The mountains shook, and then a big rock — eighty cubits by fifty — split open
• Many people died
• Ambraseys (2009) estimated the rock's dimensions as 50 m × 30 m.

Locations

• Tiberias

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