Fatima's house: Difference between revisions

Fatima's house had two doors: a door to the east; that is to the alley, and a door to the west; That is, inside the mosque and parallel to the [[pillar of Wufud]] and [[pillar of Hars|Hars]].<ref>Qāʾidān, ''Tārīkh wa āthār-i Islāmi-yi Makka wa Madīna'', p. 203; Najmī, ''Tārīkh-i ḥarām-i Aʾimma-yi Baqīʿ'', p. 152.</ref> The door on the west side, which opens to the mosque, was located next to [[Maqam Jibra'il]] ([[Murabba'at al-Qabr Pillar]]).<ref> Ansārī, ''Taʿmīr wa tawsiʿa-yi masjid-i sharīf-i Nabawī'', p. 80,81; Samhūdī, ''Wafāʾ al-wafāʾ'', vol. 2, p. 46,57.</ref>The door that is now known as the door of Fatima's house on the side of [[‌‌Bab Jibra'il]] is the same door that opened to the alley.<ref>Qa'idan, Tarikh wa athar-i Islami Makka wa Madina, p. 203.</ref>

This house remained until the time of [[al-Walid b. 'Abd al-Malik]], the 'Umayya caliph (Ruled: 86/705-96/714-5). In the expansion of al-Masjid al-Nabawi in the year 88/706-7 by the order of al-Walid and by [['Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz]], the governor of Mecca and Medina at the time, [[al-Hasan al-Muthanna]], the son of [[Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba (a)]], and [[Fatima, the daughter of Imam Husayn (a)]], who lived there were forced out of it and the house was destroyed and then the house joined to the mosque.<ref>Samhūdī, ''Wafāʾ al-wafāʾ'', vol. 2, p. 89-90.</ref>