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He was born in a small village called Sammuqa near Aleppo in Syria and belonged to the Arab tribe of Tayy.
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Al-Muqtana Baha'uddin
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Al-Muqtana was appointed as a governor of Apamea, Syria, by Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, for whom he captured Aleppo from the Hamdanid dynasty in 1016. In 1017 he took the captive Abdurrahim ibn Ilyas from Damascus to Cairo after the latter' deposition by Al-Hakim. Al-Muqtana resumed activities and coordinated the Divine call from 1027 onwards until he went into hiding as well in 1037.
Sarah was renowned for her mission's success and demonstrating her sincerity of faith and knowledge. Her story is thought to have exemplified the gender equality of the new faith. Al-Muqtana wrote on a variety of subjects, ranging from universal intelligence to metempsychosis, and taught that "only the believer who applies himself to acquiring the sciences and truths leading to tawhid is exempt from the performance of ritual obligations.".
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Along with Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad, he was one of seven believers who had defended the Raydan Mosque (near the Al-Hakim Mosque) successfully against twenty thousand attackers.
