Quiz time (124): For how long the "Black stone" was absent from its place in the Ka’bah?

 

Quiz time (124): For how long the "Black stone" was absent from its place in the Ka’bah?

 

Ans: 22 years.

Qaraamitah stealing the Black Stone and keeping it with them for a long time, this is true. Ibn Katheer said, concerning the events of 278 AH:

In this year the Qaraamitah – who are a heretical sect that follows Persian philosophy and believes that Zaradasht and Mazdak, who used to permit forbidden things, are prophets – started their trouble.

As well as that, they blindly follow everyone who speaks falsehood. The group they managed to corrupt the most were the Raafidis because they are the least wise of people. They are also called Ismaa’eelis (Ismailis) because they are named after Ismaa’eel al-A’raj ibn Ja’far al-Saadiq.

They are also called al-Qaraamitah. It was said that they are named after Qarmat ibn al-Ash’ath al-Baqqaar; and it was said that in the beginning their leader used to tell them to pray fifty times a day, so as to distract them from what he was really up to.

What is meant is that this group became active in this year, then things got worse and reached alarming proportions – as we shall see – when they entered al-Masjid al-Haraam and shed the blood of the pilgrims inside the Mosque around the Ka’bah, and they broke the Black Stone and removed it from its position, and took it with them to their homeland in 317 AH, and it stayed with them until 339 AH, so it was absent from its place in the Ka’bah for 22 years. To Allaah we belong and verily unto Him is our return.

Al-Bidaayah wa’l-Nihaayah, 11/72, 73.

For more details:

Links: https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/156575/the-qaraamitah-stealing-the-black-stone-from-the-kabah

Links: https://www.islamweb.net/en/fatwa/16666/who-are-the-qaraamitah-and-what-are-their-beliefs

 

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By Mohammed Asif Ali. #MohammedAsifAli

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