Al-Sajda Mosque

Al-Sajda Mosque

General Information
Other Names	Abu Dharr Mosque, Al-Buhayri Mosque, Al-ʾAswaf Mosque, Al-Safila Mosque
Place	Madina 900 meters north of al-Masjid al-Nabawi
Usage	Mosque
Current State
Status	Active
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Al-Sajda Mosque (Arabic: مسجد السجدة) is one of the old mosques in Medina, which was built in the prayer place of the Prophet Muhammad(a). The mosque is located in the north of al-Masjid al-Nabawi at the intersection of Abu Dharr Street and Airport Street. This mosque is also known as al-Buhayri Mosque, Abu Dharr Mosque and 'Aswaf Mosque.

Location

This mosque is located 900 meters north of al-Masjid al-Nabawi at the intersection of Abu Dharr Street and Airport Street.

Story

Prophet Muhammad(a) prayed in this place. The last sajda of the Prophet(a) was so long that the companions thought that he had passed away. When he got up from sajda, he said: Gabriel came to me and said: Whoever from your nation sends blessings upon you, God sends blessings upon him; I performed sajda for gratitude.

Names

This mosque has been called by different names. It is called the al-Sajda or al-Shukr (gratitude) because of the sajda of the Prophet mentioned above. Because it was next to the garden of al-Buhayri, it was called al-Buhayr or al-Buhayri Mosque, and because it was close to the Aswaf palm-grove or on the way to al-Safila Gardens, it was also called al-Aswaf or al-Safila Mosque.

It is not exactly clear why and when this mosque became known as Abu Dharr Mosque, but al-Matari, a local historian of Medina, mentioned it as Abu Dhar Mosque in the 8th/14th century. Samhudī doubted the correctness of this naming, but the name of Abu Dhar Mosque has been widely used up to now.

History of the mosque

Maṭarī(d.741 AH/1340-1) writes in the book of Al-Taʿrīf bimā ʾansat al-hijra that on Sāfila Road, which is the eastern road to Ḥamza Sayyid al-Shuhda's grave, there is a very small mosque, which is called Abī Dhar Mosque. At the end of the 9th/15th century, Samhudī(d. 911 AH/1505-6) described the mosque as a small building with dimensions of 8 cubits by 8 cubits and believes that this mosque was located near a palm-grove called Al-Buḥayr. Another report from the year 1303/1885-6 AD describes the Abu Dhar Ghifārī mosque as a small mosque without a roof near the Ṣadaqa spring. ʿAbdu-l Quddus Anṣārī, also spoke about this mosque in his book. He described Al-Buḥayr Mosque as a very small square mosque with a length and width of 4 meters and according to his report, the walls of this mosque were one meter high. Sayyid Aḥmad Yāsīn al-Khayārī, In his book, which was first published in 1410/1989-90, spoke about the reconstruction of the mosque in a beautiful way and that this mosque was under the supervision of the endowment department of Saudi Arabia. In his book, ʾIlyās ʿAbdu-l Ghanī also considered the reconstructed mosque to be 18 meters long and 10.13 meters wide.

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References

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