Mawlid Fatima
Mawlid Fatima(Arabic: مولد فاطمه) was the birthplace of lady Fatimah(a), the daughter of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), in the house of lady Khadīja(a) in Mecca. This place was a room in lady Khadīja’s house, which had a dome built over it, and was a place of pilgrimage and existed until the 14th century. This place has disappeared today and is located in the area of Masjid al-Ḥarām.
lady Khadīja’s house
The house of lady Khadīja(a), the Prophet’s wife, in Mecca, where Fatima’s house was one of it's rooms, was the same house where the Prophet of Islam(pbuh) lived after marrying Khadīja until he migrated to Medina. This house has disappeared today and it is inside the Masjid al-Ḥarām
Fatima’s birthplace
Mawlid Fatima (Fatima’s birthplace) was a room in lady Khadīja’s house over which they built a dome. This part of lady Khadīja’s house has known and visited at least since the 6th century.[1] This house had two domes. One is the dome that was built over the Prophet’s place of worship and was called the Qubba al-Waḥy, and the other is the dome that was built over Fatima’s birthplace. According to Taqī al-Dīn Fāsī , the historian of Mecca, in the 9th century, Khadīja’s house was known as the birthplace of Fatima.[2]
Other reports show the presence of Fatima’s birthplace in Khadīja’s house until the beginning of the 20th century. According to Muḥammad Labīb Batanūnī, who went to Hajj in 1327 AH/1909, Fatima’s birthplace was a room with a width of 4 meters and a length of 7.5 meters, in the middle of which there was a small compartment, which was known as the birthplace of lady Fatima.[3]
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References
- Batanūnī, Muḥammad Labīb. Al-Riḥla al-ḥijāzīyya. Cairo: Al-Thiqāfat al-Dīniyya, [n.d].
- Fāsī al-Makkī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad. Al-ʿaqd al-thamīn fī tārīkh al-balad al-ʾamīn. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1419 AH.
- Ibn Jubayr, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad. Safarnāma Ibn Jubayr. Translated by Parwīz Atābakī. Mashhad: Intishārāt-i Āstān-i Quds-i Raḍawī, 1370 Sh.