هدم المسجد النبوي وإعادة بنائه في عهد الوليد

هدم المسجد النبوي وإعادة بنائه في عهد الوليد

88 ھ

In Safar of the year 88 the demolition of the Prophet's Mosque began. Al-Walid informed the king of the Romans of this and asked for his help, and the king sent him a hundred thousand mithqals of gold, a hundred workers and forty loads of mosaic ¹. According to al-Suyuti, al-Walid began building the Mosque of Damascus, and he ordered the widening and rebuilding of the Prophet's Mosque in the year 87 ². The same book relates that al-Walid wished to widen the Prophet's Mosque and brought into it the chambers of the Mothers of the Believers, the chamber of Fatima and the chamber of Aisha; when the matter reached Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz from Medina, he gathered the ten jurists and the notables, and they disapproved of it and disliked it. ³ The book relates that the jurists judged the chambers should be left as they were, and that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote to al-Walid with what the ten jurists agreed upon, and al-Walid ordered him to rebuild as he wished. ⁴