Pandemic in Islamic Andalus 448H.

When the mosques closed down... 448 H/1056 CE A Historical Lesson for us in light of Coronavirus 1441 H/2020 CE

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Imam AlDhahabi, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Al Athir & Ibn Al Jawzi narrate an event that occurred in 448 H of a drought which led to many deaths. The deaths became so many that they couldn't bury the bodies and it led to a massive epidemic disease that spread in Egypt, Andalus (Spain), and Iraq that led to the closure of mosques because of how many people passed away and even Hajj being cancelled from Iraq.

The massive deaths led to people not being able to bury their deceased and the mosques were closed.

Ibn Al Jawzi & AlDhahabi shows how desperate the situation was in that year:

1. Inflation - prices sky rocketed (4 chickens were worth a golden dinar).
2. The dead were buried without being washed or covered.
3. He says that the air was polluted (which indicates that it became an airborne infection).
4. Flies were everywhere.
5. In Egypt, a thousand people died per day which only got worse over time, so much so that the Sultan had to pay for 18,000 funerals with his own money.
6. Mosques were mass closed in Andalus and other areas and the year was called the Year of Hunger.

Ibn Kathir mentions this in both 439 H and 448 H

He mentions in the year 439AH also that there was an epidemic that was caused from the rotting of animal carcasses, which resulted in hyperinflation of prices for commercial goods, and caused so many deaths, so much so that the market places were deserted. He also notes that numbers for Jumuah (Friday) prayers didn’t exceed 400 in the city of Mosul, Iraq. This indicates that the people could have established social distancing which did happen in the year 301AH when a severe pandemic in Baghdad caused the deaths of many of it’s citizens who resorted to locking them inside their homes.

Al Imam Ad Dhahabi shows that mosques have been closed before due to the spreading of severe infections.

Tarikh Al Islam by Imam Adh Dhahabi: (Dr. Bashar Awad Critical Ed.) (9/615)

Al Kamil fit Tareekh by Imam Ibn Al Athir. Darul Kutub Arabi, Beirut: 2020. (8/144-145)

Al Muntadam by Imam Ibn Al Jawzi: (Dar Al Kutub al I’lmiyyah) 16/5

AlBidayah wa AlNihayah by Imam Ibn Kathir (Dar Ibn Kathir) (13/106-107 & 12/6)

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