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Quba, a village at Medina's southern edge where the Prophet ﷺ stayed on his arrival from the Hijra on Monday 8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1 AH, founding there the first mosque on piety after the prophethood.
Quba, a village at Medina's southern edge where the Prophet ﷺ stayed on his arrival from the Hijra on Monday 8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1 AH, matching 23 September 622 CE. He stayed four days by Ibn Ishaq's telling the author chose — Bukhari has twenty-four nights, fourteen and thirteen — then rode into Medina on Friday. He founded the mosque of Quba and prayed in it, the first mosque founded on piety after the prophethood, and lodged with Kulthum ibn al-Hidm (may God be pleased with him) — the sounder reading — or Sa'd ibn Khaythama, it is said.
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Quba, a village at Medina's southern edge where the Prophet ﷺ stayed on his arrival from the Hijra on Monday 8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1 AH, matching 23 September 622 CE. He stayed at Quba four days by Ibn Ishaq's telling the author chose — Bukhari has twenty-four nights, fourteen and thirteen — then rode into Medina on Friday. He founded the mosque of Quba and prayed in it, the first mosque founded on piety after the prophethood. And he lodged with Kulthum ibn al-Hidm (may God be pleased with him) — the sounder reading — or Sa'd ibn Khaythama, it is said.
Summary
A village at Medina's southern edge where the Prophet alighted, coming from the Hijra, on Monday 8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1 AH — 23 September 622 CE 1.
The stay
The Prophet stayed at Quba four days on Ibn Ishaq's account, which the author chose — al-Bukhari has fourteen nights and also thirteen — then rode to Medina on Friday 2.
He founded the mosque of Quba there and prayed in it — the first mosque founded on piety after the prophethood 2. The Prophet lodged with Kulthum ibn al-Hidm — the sounder account — though it was said Sa'd ibn Khaythama 3.
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Connections
- Home of
- Umm Haram bint Milhan
- Site of
- The journey from the cave of Thawr to Medina and the entry into the city· The Hijra· The sojourn at Quba
- Part of
- Medina
- Contains
- Quba Mosque
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 10· Muwatta 11· Muwatta 82· Muwatta 461· Muwatta 524· Muwatta 1336· Muwatta 1352
People and things also explored
Muhammad· Muwatta, Book of Prayer· Anas ibn Malik· Abu Bakr al-Siddiq· Salah (the prescribed prayer)· Quba Mosque· The Hijra· The change of the qibla
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p. 170
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p. 172
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p. 171
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham
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islam.museum contributors. “Quba”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/quba/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.