Who Was Hulagu? Destroyer of Baghdad in Islamic History
Before the worldBefore Adam
The first nationsAdam to Ibrahim
Egypt and Bani Israilc. 1300–1000 BCE
Arabia before Islam523–570 CE
Enemies of the Prophet ﷺ610–632 CE
After the Prophet ﷺ632–1260 CE
The end of timeStill to come
Ten signs before the Hour
Isa ibn Maryam descends
A landslide in the east
A landslide in the west
A landslide in Arabia
The smoke
The sun rises from the west
The Beast of the earth
A fire from Yemen drives people to their gathering
Sahih Muslim lists ten major signs before the Hour without fixing their order. This follows a common order given by the scholars. Sahih Muslim 2901a ↗
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هولاكو
Hulagu
Destroyer of Baghdad1258 CE · 656 AH
Relied onThe largest army on earth
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Undone byThe Mamluks at Ain Jalut
The Mongol prince who sacked Baghdad, killed the caliph and a vast part of the city, and threw its libraries into the Tigris.
How it ended
His army was stopped by the Mamluks at Ain Jalut in 1260. He died in 1265.
The lessonWithin forty years, the Mongols of Persia had become Muslim themselves.
Stood against
Qutuz and Baybars
Source
Recorded by historiansIbn Kathir and Rashid al-Din.
Every villain in Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal
Each entry is drawn from the Quran, authentic hadith (with links to sunnah.com), the classical commentators and the historians. Companions who fought Islam and later became Muslim are not included, nor are figures Muslims disagree about.
