Medina

المدينة المنورة

City in the Hejaz to which the Prophet ﷺ 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 ¹. Samhudi counts nearly ninety-five names for it, among them Tayba, Taba and Yathrib ².

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At a glance

Region: Arabia
Identifiers: Wikidata Pleiades GeoNames
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On screen

The Message· Film, 1976 · Set in · historical drama
The Life of Muhammad· Documentary series · Set in · documentary
Muhammad: The Last Prophet· Animation, 2002 · Set in · for children
Salman the Persian· Series · Set in · historical drama
Imam Ali· Series · Set in · historical drama
Omar· Series · Set in · historical drama

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Medina is the blessed city of migration, home to the Prophet ﷺ's Mosque, where the Prophet and his companions lived in harmony.

Medina is the illuminated city to which the Prophet ﷺ and early Muslims migrated, received by the Helpers (Ansar) with profound generosity. There, the first Islamic commonwealth was established based on justice and the Constitution of Medina. It houses the Prophet's Mosque, the Rawdah, and the resting places of the Prophet and his companions Abu Bakr and Umar.

Storytellers (10–12) read the Explorers text, then cross to the Scholars text.

Taybah, the City of the Prophet ﷺ, and the second holiest sanctuary in Islam, situated in a fertile volcanic oasis in the Hejaz roughly 400 kilometers north of Mecca. Following the Hijra in 622 CE, it served as the political and spiritual capital of the early Islamic state, where the Prophet forged brotherhood between Emigrants and Helpers and promulgated the Constitution of Medina. Encompassing the Prophet's Mosque, the Rawdah, Jannat al-Baqi, and the Mosque of Quba, Medina was designated an inviolable sanctuary (haram), serving as the crucible for the revelation of communal laws and civic ethics.

Summary

A city in the Hijaz to which the Prophet migrated in 622 CE, and where the Prophet's Mosque and the first Muslim community were established.

Location

Its approximate coordinates are 24.4686 N and 39.6142 E ³. It was known as "Yathrib" until 622 CE.

In the museum

The museum's material on this place includes: events that took place here: 74; people born here: 32; people who died here: 21; people who lived here: 16; people who came here: 1; polities it was the capital of: 1; buildings here: 1; groups that lived here: 6.

Events that took place here

The two pledges of al-Aqaba (621 CE)
The Prophetic migration (hijra) (622 CE)
The Battle of Uhud (625 CE)
The Battle of the Confederates (the Trench) (627 CE)
The three who were left behind after Tabuk (630 CE)
The people of the mosque ask the Prophet to pray in it (630 CE)
The acceptance of the repentance of the three (630 CE)
The expedition to Tabuk (630 CE)
The Weepers: seven who asked for mounts (630 CE)
The Year of Delegations (631 CE)

People born here

People who died here

People who lived here

Groups that lived here

What this page covers

This page gathers what the museum links to the place: events, people and buildings. It is not a full historical description of the place. A description of the place and its history will be added from primary sources in the coming batches.

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