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al-Juhfa

الجحفة

The land between Mecca and Medina — named (al-Mas'udi says) for the torrent that swept away (ajhafa) 'Ubayl ibn Aws and his people who first settled it; Banu Hanifa of Yamama later dwelt there 1.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia
Region
Arabia
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al-Juhfa: a land between Mecca and Medina. al-Mas'udi reports that Ubayl ibn Awas ibn Aram ibn Sam ibn Nuh settled there with his children and those who followed him, and that they perished in a flood. The place was named al-Juhfa because the flood swept them away. Later people of Banu Hanifa from Yamama settled there and made it their home. 2

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Mentioned in
Muwatta 2603· Muwatta 916· Muwatta 927· Muwatta 928· Muwatta 956· Muwatta 967

People and things also explored

Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Dhu al-Hulayfa· Aisha bint Abi Bakr· Malik ibn Anas· Muhammad· Nafi' mawla Ibn Umar· Qarn al-Manazil

Sources

  1. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p. 457-458
  2. Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi , p.457-458
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Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)

The Book of Pilgrimage, sixth book of the Muwatta in Yahya ibn Yahya's recension (ed. Ma'ruf 1997): 385 reports (898–1282) in eighty-three babs, PDF pp. 433–570 of volume 1, from the rules of the state of ihram through the hady, the standing at Arafa and Muzdalifa, the stoning, the expiations, to the pilgrimage of a woman without a mahram and the fasting of the tamattu' pilgrim.