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Yahya condemns a ruler's unlawful marriage and is killed on the orders of Herod Antipas. Tradition keeps his head in a shrine in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus.
And peace be upon him the day he was born and the day he dies and the day he is raised alive.
Quran 19:15
Source: History, Ibn Kathir ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
