Wabak (1 apr 639 anni – 1 dic 639 anni)

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PADA tanggal 18H bersamaan 639M tersebarnya wabak tha’un dengan begitu cepat di wilayah Syam yang dikenali dengan wabak tha’un Amwas. Dinamakan sedemikian kerana dinisbahkan kepada satu kampung di Palestin yang menjadi punca utama tersebarnya wabak ini, iaitu kampung Amwas.

Wabak ini dikatakan telah menyebabkan kematian hampir 25,000 rakyat Syam termasuklah sebahagian Sahabat-sahabat utama Rasulullah S.A.W. Di antaranya Abu Ubaidah Amir Al-Jarrah, Mu’az bin Jabal, Syurahbil bin Hasanah, Suhail bin Amru, Yazid bin Abi Sufyan dan Amir bin Ghailan As Tsaqafi. – (At Tarikh Al Islami Al Wajiz, Dr. Muhammad Suhail Thaqqus)


639 - Lewat 639 M
Great plague
While famine was ending in Arabia, many districts in Syria and Palestine were devastated by plague. While Umar was on his way to visit Syria, at Elat, he was received by Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah, governor of Syria, who informed him about the plague and its intensity, and suggested that Umar go back to Medina. Umar tried to persuade Abu Ubaidah to come with him to Medina, but he declined to leave his troops in that critical situation. Abu Ubaidah died in 639 of the plague, which also cost the lives of 25,000 Muslims in Syria. After the plague had weakened, in late 639, Umar visited Syria for political and administrative re-organization, as most of the veteran commanders and governors had died of the plague

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