Pourghorbani

At the time of Samhūdī, this mosque was destroyed. He went to the place of the mosque and seeing a big building stone, he ordered to dig there. After the exploration, the mihrab and the four corners of the Saqqah Mosque appeared. Based on the decorations and carvings of the stones that were discovered, Samhoudi believed that this building was built during the time of [[ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿazīz]]. [12. amhudī, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh. ‘’Wafāʾ al-wafā vol3.p200.] According to Samhoudi’s report, the Saqqia Mosque in his time, on its original foundations, which is a square with an area of about seven cubits by seven It was a cubit, it was rebuilt.[13. amhudī, ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh. ‘’Wafāʾ al-wafā vol3.p200] Ahmad Abbasi’s report in the 11th century also confirms the area of this mosque.[14 Abbāsī, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd.ʿUmdat al-akhbārp.189. ]

According to a report from 1073 A.H. (1662 A.D.), this mosque is located on the left side of the road leading to Madinah from the Aqeeq route, in the western Hara.[15. ʿAyyāshī, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad. ‘’Al-Riḥla al-ʿAyyāshiyya’’vol.1.p395]

Scholars of the first and middle centuries are of the same opinion that the Saghia Mosque is a historical mosque that is located inside the railway station today. Yasin Al-Khiari, a contemporary historian of Medina, said: the ruined building that was located next to the Saqiya well in his time and was destroyed for the development of the road, is the Saqiya Mosque. [16 Khiyārī, Sayyid Aḥmad Yāsīn.Tārīkh maʿālimal-madīna al-munawwara qadīman wa ḥadīthan.p.149] This dilapidated building is clearly visible in the picture he gave in his book. Muhammad Elias Abdul Ghani, with several reasons, has proved the famous theory and rejected the theory of Khayari.[17  Abdu-l Ghanī, Muḥammad ʾIlyās. Al-Masājid al-Atharīyya fī al- madīna al-munawwara. 102]

Description of the mosque

Shenqiati describes the Saqqiya Mosque as follows: “Inside the buildings of the railway station, from the south, the Saqqiya Mosque can be seen, which has triple domes. The middle dome is bigger”.[18 Shanqīṭī, Muḥammad al-ʾAmīn al-. Al-Durr al-thamīna fī maʿālim dār al-rasūl p237]

The mosque building has vertical and horizontal sections and consists of three empty spaces or gaps covered by three domes. The middle dome is the biggest of all the domes. Its altar is in the Qiblah wall. In half of the north, east and west walls of its building, an arched and crescent-shaped valve with a circular arch is installed. The walls are plastered with white plaster.[19. Ṣāliḥī Lumaʿī, Muṣṭafā.Al-madīna al-munawwara taṭawwurihā al-ʿumrānī wa turāthiha al-miʿmārī. P.209.210]

*Jaʿfariyān, Rasūl. ‘’Āthār-i islāmi-yi Makka wa Madīna’’. Tehran: Mashʿar, 1382 Sh.

*Khiyārī, Sayyid Aḥmad Yāsīn.Tārīkh maʿālimal-madīna al-munawwara qadīman wa ḥadīthan. Riyadh: al-Amāna alʿāmma li-liḥtifāl miʾat ʿām ʿalā tʾsīs al-mamlika al- ʿarabiyya al-suʿūdiyya, 1419 AH/1999.

*Shanqīṭī, Muḥammad al-ʾAmīn al-. Al-Durr al-thamīna fī maʿālim dār al-rasūl(s). Beirut: Muʾassisa ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān, 1411 AH.

*ʿAyyāshī, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad. ‘’Al-Riḥla al-ʿAyyāshiyya’’. Abu Dhabi: Dār al-Suwaydī, 2006.

*ʿAyyāshī, Ibrāhīm .Al-Madīna al-munawwara bayn al-māḍī wa al-ḥāḍir. Medina: al-Maktab al-ʿilmīyya, 1972.