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Uhud is a great mountain north of Medina, beloved to Muslims for the Prophet ﷺ's saying that it is a mountain that loves us and we love it. At its foot the battle of Uhud was fought in 625 CE, where Hamza the Prophet's uncle and seventy Muslims were martyred. Muslims visit their graves there today.

Uhud is a rocky volcanic mountain stretching about five kilometers north of the Prophet ﷺ's Mosque in Medina, its most famous landmark. The Prophet took his army to it in 3 AH (625 CE) to meet Quraysh under Abu Sufyan in the battle of Uhud; the fighting turned at its foot and the Muslims were defeated after the archers left their post, and some seventy companions were martyred, among them Hamza the Prophet's uncle, master of martyrs — they were buried in a cemetery at the mountain's foot still visited today. In the hadith the Prophet said Uhud is a mountain that loves us and we love it, so Muslims hold its visit and the martyrs' graves dear.

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Uhud is a volcanic mountain rising about 1,077 meters and running some five kilometers north of the Prophet ﷺ's Mosque — Medina's most famous historical landmark. It names the battle of Uhud in Shawwal 3 AH (March 625 CE): the Prophet marched out with seven hundred men to meet the army of Quraysh under Abu Sufyan coming to avenge Badr; the battle ended in the Muslims' defeat after the fifty archers left their post on the Archers' Hill seeking spoil, Khalid ibn al-Walid (may God be pleased with him) wheeled his cavalry, the ranks broke and some seventy companions were martyred — most famously Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib (may God be pleased with him), master of martyrs — and the Prophet was wounded in the face and lost a tooth. The martyrs were buried where they fell in the cemetery at the mountain's foot, still visited today; and Muslim records the Prophet saying 'Uhud is a mountain that loves us and we love it'. Historians read in the mountain and its battle the model of military obedience and the price of abandoning orders, and the hadith gives the virtue of visiting it.

Summary

A mountain north of Medina, at whose foot the Battle of Uhud took place in 625 CE.

Location

Its approximate coordinates are 24.5 N and 39.61 E ¹.

In the museum

The museum's material on this place includes events that took place here: 9; people who died here: 2.

Events that took place here

The Battle of Uhud (625 CE)
The deployment of the Muslim army at Uhud and the appointment of the unit of archers (625 CE)
The fighting over the polytheists' banner at Uhud, and the destruction of its bearers (625 CE)
The burial of the martyrs of Uhud (625 CE)
The defence of the Messenger of God at Uhud (625 CE)
The flanking movement carried out by Khalid ibn al-Walid at Uhud (625 CE)
The martyrdom of Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib at Uhud (625 CE)
The organised withdrawal to the mountain pass at Uhud (625 CE)
The last visit to the martyrs of Uhud (632 CE)

People who died 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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Mount Uhud

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The Battle of Uhud