Ḥaras pillar or Maḥras pillar(Arabic: حَرَس or مَحرَس) is a pillar in Masjid al-Nabi that Imam Ali(a) stood next to it to guard and protect Prophet Mohammad(a). This pillar is also known as Imam Ali's musalla(place of prayer) and the pillar of Ali is another name for this pillar. Haras pillar is one of the pillars of the Prophet's holy shrine and half of it is inside the shrine.
location
This pillar is located on the north side, behind the pillar of Al-Tawba (repentance) and in front of the Prophet's house, which is now his holy shrine, and the prophet for praying used to enter the mosque through the door in front of it.[1] Now half of this pillar is located next to the prophet's holy shrine and inside the shrine.[2]
Reason for naming
This pillar became famous because Imam Ali(a) used to stand next to it to guard the Prophet.[3]
Other names
Mahras pillar
This pillar is also known as Mahras[4] the arabic word mahras(محرس) is rooted from «ح ـ ر ـ س» that means, to guard and to protect.[5]
Ali's pillar
This pillar is also known as "Musalla Ali b. Abi Talib" because Imam Ali(a) recites his prayers next to it.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Maṭarī, Al-Taʿrīf bimā ʾānasat, p. 92.
- ↑ Shurrāb, Al-Maʿālim al-athīra, p. 40.
- ↑ Maṭarī, Al-Taʿrīf bimā ʾānasat, p. 92; Samhūdī, Wafāʾ al-wafā, vol. 2, p. 185.
- ↑ Maṭarī, Al-Taʿrīf bimā ʾānasat, p. 92.
- ↑ Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, vol. 6, p. 48; word: «حرس».
- ↑ Ibn Zabāla, Akhbār al-madīna, p. 100; Samhūdī, Wafāʾ al-wafā, vol. 2, p. 185.
References
- Ibn Manẓūr, Muḥammad b. Mukarram. Lisān al-ʿArab. Qom: Adab al-Ḥawza, 1405 AH.
- Ibn Saʿd, Muḥammad. Al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā. Beirut: Dār al-Ṣādir, [n.d].
- Ibn Zabāla. Akhbār al-madīna. Medina: Markaz Buḥūth wa Darāsāt al-Madina al-Munawwara, 1424 AH.
- Maṭarī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-. Al-Taʿrīf bimā ʾānasat al-hijra min maʿālim dār al-hijra. Riyadh: Dār al-malik ʿAbdu-l ʿAzīz, 2005.
- Najjār, Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al- .Al-Durra al-thamīna fī akhbār al-madina. Medina: Markaz Buḥūth wa Darāsāt al-Madina al-Munawwara, 1427 AH.
- No author. Kitāb fī aḥwāl al-Ḥaramayn al-sharīfayn. Mecca: Maktaba Nazār Muṣṭafā al-Bāz, 1418 AH
- Samhūdī, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh. Wafāʾ al-wafā bi akhbār dar al-Muṣṭafā. Edited by Muḥammad Muḥyi al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd. Beirut: 1984.
- Shurrāb, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ḥasan. Al-Maʿālim al-athīra. Tehran: Mashʿar, 1383 sh.
- Ṭurayḥī, Fakhr al-Dīn b. Muḥammad al-. Majmaʿ al-baḥrayn. Tehran: Wizārat-i Farhang wa Irshād-i Islāmī, 1367 Sh.
- Yamānī, Aḥmad Zakkī. Mawsūʿa makka al-mukarrama wa al-madina al-munawwara. London: Muʾssisa al-furqān, 1429 AH.