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Brief History of the suspension of hajj [thread]
As we have come to know , this year's hajj has been cancelled but many Muslims do not know that hajj has been cancelled/suspended multiple times throughout history and in this thread I'll try to sum them up briefly
![Brief History of the suspension of hajj [thread]As we have come to know , this year's hajj has been cancelled but many Muslims do not know that hajj has been cancelled/suspended multiple times throughout history and in this thread I'll try to sum them up briefly](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ebbx79iWAAA0dd9.jpg "Brief History of the suspension of hajj [thread]As we have come to know , this year's hajj has been cancelled but many Muslims do not know that hajj has been cancelled/suspended multiple times throughout history and in this thread I'll try to sum them up briefly")
As we have come to know , this year's hajj has been cancelled but many Muslims do not know that hajj has been cancelled/suspended multiple times throughout history and in this thread I'll try to sum them up briefly
Around 40 times in history the Hajj was either cancelled or the number of pilgrims was extremely low according to the King AbdulAziz Foundation For Research And Archives, and this idea is not as unprecedented as perceived.
Among the many factors were:
• Epidemics/Diseases
• Political turmoil
• Economic turmoil
• Instability of security
• Conflicts
• Activities of bandits and raiders
• Epidemics/Diseases
• Political turmoil
• Economic turmoil
• Instability of security
• Conflicts
• Activities of bandits and raiders
Some years and events when Hajj was either suspended or interrupted:
1. 865 AD: Ismail Bin Yusuf Al-Alawi known as Al Safak and his forces led a rebellion against the Abbasid caliphate and massacred thousands of pilgrims who were gathered at the Arafat mountain near Mecca,forcing the cancellation of the hajj.
2.930 AD: arguably the most infamous event was when a sect called Qaramitah, who considered the hajj to be a pagan ritual,led by Abu Tahir Qaramitani carried out a Vicious attack on Mecca during the hajj season . According to historic accounts, the Qaramitans massacred 30,000
Pilgrims while mockingly chanting verses of the Qur'an at them ,burying them in their places without bathing or shrouding them nor performing janazah Salah for them . They also dumped 3.000 bodies into the sacred well of zamzam and then destroyed it completely.
They also stole the black stone from the ka'ba and took it to their base in the east of modern day Saudi Arabia called Hajr(modern day Qatif) for 22 years. It is said that sadly for 10 years after this event ,the hajj was not carried out
3.968 AD: it is said that in this year it was cancelled because of the spread of the so-called "Al mashiri disease" in Mecca , and because of it the pilgrims died , and their camels died on the way from thirst and only a few arrived in Mecca.
4.1000 AD and 1028 AD:1000 AD ,Hajj was suspended due to extreme high costs and inflation. For the same reason nobody did hajj from the East and Egypt in 1028 AD.
5. 1099 AD: Hajj was not performed because of the turmoil and lack of security that befell the Muslims throughout their large state due to the raging conflicts between themselves, and for 5 years before the fall of Jerusalem to the hands of the crusaders .
6.1256 AD: apart from the Hijaz , no other nation performed the hajj for 4 years due to ongoing conflicts.
7. 1799 AD: Hajj trips stopped during the french Revolution due to the routes bring insecure .
8. 1831 AD: a plague coming from India spread and caused the deaths of a staggering 3 quarters of the pilgrims .
9. 1837 AD to 1892 AD:the epidemics spread in various years from 1837 AD until 1892 AD with thousands dying daily. In 1871 it struck Medina . This outbreak known as cholera spread during the hajj season , as deaths spike in Arafat and peaked in Mina
10. 2020 AD: the coronavirus pandemic (covid-19) caused suspension of international pilgrims performing hajj.
