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This Miḥrāb was built in 861AH/ 1456-7AD during the era of [[Malik al-Ashraf Abū Nasr ʾīnāl]], one of the kings of [[Egypt]] (R:857-865 AH/1453-4; 1460-1AD) by the supervisor of the affairs of [[Masjid al-Ḥarām]], Ṭūghān Sheikh Aḥmadī Ḥanafī (881 AH/1476-7).<ref>Sakhāwī, ''Al-Tuḥfat al-laṭīfa'', vol. 1, p. 474; Rafʿat Pāshā, ''Mirʾāt al-ḥaramayn'',  vol. 1,  p. 469; ''Mʿālim dār al-hijra'',  p. 250,251.</ref> Until the age of Sheikh Ṭūghān, Muslims in [[Masjid Al-Nabī]] used to do daily prayer to an Imam who stood in the [[Prophet's Miḥrāb]] during the off-season of [[Hajj]] and in the [[ʿUthmān Miḥrāb]] during the Hajj season. Ṭūghān Sheikh built a new Miḥrāb in the mosque so that a separate congregational prayer can be held under the leadership of a Ḥanafī Imam. After this date, the beginning of prayer was held under the Imamate of Imam Shafi’i, who stood in the Prophet’s Mihrab, and then Imam Hanafi prayed in the new Mihrab (which became known as the Hanafi Miḥrāb and later the Soleimani Mihrab). Imam Hanafi and Imam Shafi’i performed the Taraweeh prayer together in the nights of Ramadan. [3.Samhudī, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh. ‘’Wafāʾ al-wafāvol2 p210, Ibrāhīm Rafʿat Pāshā. ‘’Mirʾāt al-ḥaramayn vol 1p469,470   ] This issue spread from Madinah to Mecca as well. [4.Samhudī, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh. ‘’Wafāʾ al-wafā. Vol 2p210. ]