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 "id": "event/death-of-muawiya",
 "class": "event",
 "slug": "death-of-muawiya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "وفاة معاوية بن أبي سفيان",
  "en": "Death of Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مات معاوية في رجب سنة ستين ودفن بين باب الجابية وباب الصغير بدمشق وقيل إنه عاش سبعاً وسبعين سنة، وكان عنده شيء من شعر رسول الله وقلامة أظفاره فأوصى أن تجعل في فمه وعينيه وقال افعلوا ذلك وخلوا بيني وبين أرحم الراحمين {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}. وكان أميراً على الشام عشرين سنة وخليفة عشرين سنة {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 325}.",
  "en": "Mu'awiya died in Rajab of year 60 and was buried between Bab al-Jabiya and Bab al-Saghir at Damascus; he is said to have lived seventy-seven years. Keeping hairs and nail-parings of the Prophet, he willed they be placed in his mouth and eyes — 'do that, and leave me with the Most Merciful of the merciful'. He had been governor of Syria twenty years and caliph twenty more {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 325, 329}."
 },
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 "regions": [
  "levant-iraq"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/umayyad"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 680.2486704039097,
  "latest": 680.3308076140877
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "0680-04~",
   "hijri": "0060-07",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "رجب سنة 60؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}."
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "0680-04~",
   "hijri": "0060-07",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "رجب سنة 60؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}."
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "kind": "death",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "0680-04~",
    "hijri": "0060-07",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "month",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "رجب سنة 60؛ التحويل مشتق {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}."
   }
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "تاريخ الخلفاء للسيوطي (ط المنهاج 1434هـ/2013م) ص 325، 329",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-tarikh-khulafa-batch-7"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/umayyad-birth-to-fall-2006",
   "source/tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434",
   "source/bakr-umayyad-state-1134715"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
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  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "مات [[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|معاوية بن أبي سفيان]] في رجب سنة 60هـ، ودُفن بين باب الجابية وباب الصغير بـ[[place/damascus|دمشق]]. وقيل إنه عاش سبعاً وسبعين سنة. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وصيته",
     "markdown": "يذكر السيوطي أن عنده شيئاً من شعر رسول الله وقلامة أظفاره، فأوصى أن تُجعل في فمه وعينيه. وقال: «افعلوا ذلك وخلّوا بيني وبين أرحم الراحمين». {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مدة حكمه",
     "markdown": "كان أميراً على الشام عشرين سنة، وخليفة عشرين سنة، بحسب السيوطي. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 325}\n\nالتاريخ الميلادي مشتق من الهجري."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-muawiya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "[[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan]] died in Rajab 60 AH and was buried between the Gate of al-Jabiya and the Small Gate in [[place/damascus|Damascus]]. It is also said that he lived seventy-seven years. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "His bequest",
     "markdown": "al-Suyuti says that he had with him some of the Messenger of God's hair and a paring of his nails, and he bequeathed that they be placed in his mouth and on his eyes. He said: \"Do that, and leave me between myself and the Most Merciful of the merciful.\" {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The length of his rule",
     "markdown": "According to al-Suyuti he was governor of Syria for twenty years and caliph for twenty years. {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 325}\n\nThe Gregorian date is derived from the Hijri date."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-muawiya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "[[person/muawiya-ibn-abi-sufyan|معاویہ بن ابی سفیان]] رجب سنہ 60ھ میں فوت ہوئے، اور [[place/damascus|دمشق]] میں باب الجابیہ اور باب الصغیر کے درمیان دفن کیے گئے۔ ایک قول کے مطابق ان کی عمر ستر سال سے کچھ زیادہ تھی۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ان کی وصیت",
     "markdown": "سیوطی ذکر کرتے ہیں کہ ان کے پاس رسول اللہ کے بالوں میں سے کچھ اور ان کے ناخنوں کا ایک تراشہ تھا، تو انہوں نے وصیت کی کہ وہ ان کے منہ اور آنکھوں میں رکھ دیا جائے، اور کہا: «افعلوا ذلك وخلّوا بيني وبين أرحم الراحمين»۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 329}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ان کی حکومت کی مدت",
     "markdown": "سیوطی کے مطابق وہ بیس سال شام کے امیر اور بیس سال خلیفہ رہے۔ {cite:tarikh-khulafa-minhaj-1434 p. 325}\n\nعیسوی تاریخ ہجری سے اخذ کی گئی ہے۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/death-of-muawiya",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-18"
  }
 },
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  "event/death-of-habib-ibn-maslama",
  "screen/muawiya-2025",
  "building/kahf-jibril-qasyun",
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  "building/umayyad-mosque",
  "event/abd-al-ghani-damascus-595",
  "event/abd-al-malik-coinage",
  "event/afdal-damascus-596"
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