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Summary
The barren land of Banu Abi Ahmad near Medina; there Ali and al-Zubayr caught the woman carrying Hatib's letter to Quraysh and drew the letter from the plaits of her head 1.
The spot's name
The edition has three readings of the name: "al-Khaliqa" with damma on the silent kha; with the dotted jim in both; and "Dhu al-Khulayfa" in Ibn Ishaq's book, as in the edition's footnote 1.
For young visitors
A place near Medina where the Prophet ﷺ's men stopped the woman carrying a secret letter — and found it hidden in her hair's plaits.
Connections
- Located in
- Medina
People and things also explored
The burial of the Prophet· The change of the qibla· Mosque of the Two Qiblas· Prophet's Mosque· The Sanctuary of Medina· Judaism in Arabia before Islam· Medina's society at the Hijra· The utum (tower-fortresses) of Yathrib
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936) , 4/41
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Khaliqa (Dhu al-Khalifa)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-khaliqa/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-12.