Historical Events That Happened on the 22nd of Ramadan

1 AH – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) begins sending the Prophet’s expeditions to achieve several Islamic goals. These include: the Sariyah of Sea of Al-Bahr, led by Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib; the Sariyah of Rabigh, led by Ubaydah ibn Al-Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib; and the Sariyah of Kharrar, led by Saad ibn Abi Waqqas.

559 AH – Muslims achieve victory over the Crusaders in the Battle of Harim, led by Sultan Nur al-Din Zangi.

657 AH – The Mongol army begins its march from Baghdad to the Levant, with their leaders including Ketbgha, Noyan, and Bayju on the right wing, and other commanders on the left wing, while Hulagu led the center of the army.

705 AH – Ibn Taymiyyah arrives in Cairo after being summoned by the Mamluk Sultan Al-Mansur Hassan al-Din Lajin, following trials held in the Levant. He was judged in the citadel, where he was imprisoned in the tower after Islamic scholars unanimously declared him to be misguided, accusing him of deviating from consensus in both the fundamentals and branches of Islam. They condemned him for claiming that the world was eternal with God and that God was a body that moves and occupies space, ideas that resembled those of Judaism.

22 Ramadan 273 AH = 20 February 886 CE – The death of Imam Al-Hafidh Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Yazid ibn Majah Al-Qazwini, the author of Sunan Ibn Majah, one of the six authentic hadith collections, which include Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan An-Nasa’i, Sunan At-Tirmidhi, Sunan Abu Dawood, and Sunan Ibn Majah.

22 Ramadan 277 AH = 7 January 891 CE – The birth of Abd al-Rahman al-Nasir, the eighth Emir of Al-Andalus from the Umayyad dynasty. He was the first to assume the title of Amir al-Mu’minin (Commander of the Faithful) and ruled for fifty years, marking one of the most prosperous and powerful periods in Andalusian history.