11 AH
Approximate date
Khalid defeats the false prophet Musaylimah in a walled orchard later called the Garden of Death. Hundreds of Muslims fall, many of them memorisers of the Quran.
Khalid ibn al-WalidMusaylimahWahshi
Source: History ·
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.
