Then
In the narrationsNo sahih or hasan narration names Raqqa. It appears in reports about later trials in Nu‘aym's Kitab al-Fitan, which are ungraded and weak overall; none may be read as established.
Now
TodayAs of 2026-10-26 · draft, reviewed monthlyA city on the north bank of the Euphrates in Syria. Harun al-Rashid ruled the Abbasid caliphate from it (796-809). ISIS held it from 2014 until the battle of 2017, which left much of it destroyed.
Narrations naming this place
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