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Emigration-place of Abraham (unknown)

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The eschatological destination of the best people on earth, according to several early Islamic hadiths

Names

  • Arabic: مهاجر إبراهيم = Muhājir Ibrāhīm 1

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād. 1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 282, 381, 382, 383, 384 [Arabic].
    • Abraham, Emigration-place of: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 279, 391, 393, 394 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “Emigration-place of Abraham” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/17598.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: place categorization; abstract; and categorization, matching, and Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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