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al-Baqi' (Baqi' al-Gharqad)

بقيع الغرقد

Medina's great cemetery east of the Prophet ﷺ's Mosque; As'ad ibn Zurara was the first Muslim buried there on Abu Hatim's account via Razin — 'Uthman ibn Maz'un the first of the Emigrants — and al-Samhudi lists among its merits the resurrection of seventy thousand from it in the image of the moon without reckoning, angels who whenever it fills take it by its edges and empty it into Paradise, answered prayer at the corner of Dar 'Aqil beside it, and the mosque of Banu Hudayla inside it right of its gate 1.

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The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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al-Baqi al-Gharqad: the great cemetery of the city, east of the Prophet's mosque, in Medina. Asad ibn Zurara was the first of the Muslims buried in it, according to the report of Abu Hatim transmitted by Razin, and Uthman ibn Maz'un was the first of the emigrants. Al-Samhudi mentions among its virtues that seventy thousand of its dead are sent to Paradise without reckoning, and that prayers are answered at the corner of the house of Aqil beside it. Inside it there was a mosque of Banu Hudayla on the right of whoever enters by its gate. 2 3

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Burial place of
Abdülmecid II· Imam Shamil· Muhammad Ayyub
Part of
Medina

People and things also explored

Medina· Kazi-Magomed· Imam Shamil· Muhammad Ayyub· Mosque of the Two Qiblas· Prophet's Mosque· The Sanctuary of Medina· Judaism in Arabia before Islam

Sources

  1. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print) , p. 91, 271
  2. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print) , p.91
  3. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print) , p.271
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City in the Hejaz to which the Prophet migrated in 622 CE; site of the Prophet's Mosque and the first Muslim community. The Prophet declared it a sanctuary as Abraham declared Mecca — its bounds 'between 'Ayr and Thawr' (or 'to Uhud' in the reading Abu 'Ubayd and al-Hazimi preferred) and 'between its two lava fields'; within them hunting and tree-cutting are forbidden and the bloodwit for unintended killing is heavier. Samhudi counts nearly ninety-five names for it, among them Tayba, Taba and Yathrib.