Al-Sulaymani Mihrab: Difference between revisions

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 [[al-Masjid al-Nabawi|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 following of a Ḥanafī Imam. After this date, the beginning of prayer was held under the following of Imam Shafiʿī, who stood in the [[Prophet’s Miḥrāb]], and then Imam Ḥanafī prayed in the new Miḥrāb(which became known as the Ḥanafī Miḥrāb and later the Sulaymānī Miḥrāb). Imam Ḥanafī and Imam Shafiʿī performed the Tarāwīḥ prayer together in the nights of [[Ramaḍān]].<ref>Samhudī,''Wafāʾ al-wafā'', vol. 2, p. 210; Rafʿat Pāshā, ''Mirʾāt al-ḥaramayn'', vol. 1, p. 469-470.</ref>This issue spread from [[Medina]] to [[Mecca]] as well.<ref>Samhudī, ''Wafāʾ al-wafā'', Vol. 2, p. 210.</ref>