Al-Sajda Mosque
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 in the intersection of Abu Dharr Street and Airport Street. This mosque is also known as al-Buhayri Mosque, Abu Dharr Mosque and 'Aswaf Mosque.
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| General Information | |
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| 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 |
location
This mosque is located 900 meters north of Masjid al-Nabī at the intersection of Abu Dhar Street and Al-Maṭār Street.[1]
story of the mosque
Prophet Muhammad(a) prayed two rakʿats in this mosque. The prostration of the Prophet(a) in the second rakʿat was so long that the companions thought that he had passed away. When he got up from prostration, he said: Gabriel came to me and said: Whoever from your nation sends blessings upon you, God sends blessings upon him; I prostrated for gratitude.[2]
Mosque names
This mosque has been called by different names. Because of the prostration of the Prophet, which was mentioned above, it is called the Mosque of Sajda or the Mosque of shukr(gratitude). Because it was next to garden of Al-Buḥayrī, it was called Al-Buḥayr or Al-Buḥayrī Mosque, and because it was close to the ʾAswāf palm-grove or on the way to Al-Sāfila Gardens, it was also called the ʾAswāf or Sāfila Mosque.[3] It is not exactly clear why and when this mosque became known as Abu Dhar Mosque, but Maṭarī, 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.[4]
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.[5] 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. [6] 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.[7] 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.[8] 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. [9] In his book, ʾIlyās ʿAbdu-l Ghanī also considered the reconstructed mosque to be 18 meters long and 10.13 meters wide.[10]
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Notes
- ↑ ʿAbdu-l Ghanī, Al-Masājid al-ʾAtharīyya, P. 93.
- ↑ Samhudī, Wafāʾ al-wafā, vol. 3, p. 209-210.
- ↑ ʿAbdu-l Ghanī, Al-Masājid al-Atharīyya, p. 92-93.
- ↑ Najafī, Madīna shināsī, p. 206-207; ʿAbdu-l Ghanī, Al-Masājid al-Atharīyya, P. 93.
- ↑ Maṭarī, Al-Taʿrīf bimā ʾānasat al-hijra, P. 147-148.
- ↑ Samhudī, Wafāʾ al-wafā, Vol. 3, p. 209.
- ↑ ʿAbdu-l Ghanī, Al-Masājid al-Atharīyya, p. 95.
- ↑ Anṣārī, Āthār al-madīna al-munawwara, p. 139-140.
- ↑ Khayārī, Tārīkh maʿālim al-madīna al-munawwara qadīman wa ḥadīthan, p. 180.
- ↑ ʿAbdu-l Ghanī, Al-Masājid al-Atharīyya, P. 94.
References
- ʿAbdu-l Ghanī, Muhammad ʾIlyās. Al-Masājid al-Atharīyya fī al- madīna al-munawwara. Medina: [n.p], 2000.
- Anṣārī, ʿAbdu-l Quddus al-. Āthār al-madīna al-munawwara. Medina: Maktabat al-Salafīyya, 1973.
- Khayārī, Sayyid Aḥmad Yāsīn al-.Tārīkh maʿālimal-madīna al-munawwara qadīman wa ḥadīthan. Riyadh: al-Amāna alʿāmma li-liḥtifāl miʾat ʿām ʿalā tʾsīs al-mamlika al- ʿarabiyya al-suʿudiyya, 1419 AH/1999.
- Maṭarī, Muhammad b. Aḥmad al-. Al-Taʿrīf bimā ʾānasat al-hijra min maʿālim dār al-hijra. Riyadh: Dār al-malik ʿAbdu-l ʿAzīz, 2005.
- Najafī, Sayyid Muhammad Bāqir. Madīna shināsī. Tehran: Mashʿar, 1387 sh.
- Samhudī, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh. Wafāʾ al-wafā bi akhbār dar al-Muṣṭafā. Edited by Muhammad Muḥyi al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd. Beirut: 1984.