Al-Sarir pillar: Difference between revisions

he Al-Sarīr Pillar in the Prophet’s Mosque is located within the area of [[Rawdat al-Nabi]], to the east of the Pillar of Repentance. <ref>Samhūdī, ''Wafāʾ al-wafā'', vol. 2, p. 184; Shurrāb, ''Al-Ma ʿālim al-athīra'', p. 40.</ref> It is the first pillar on the side of the ''qibla'' (direction of prayer) and is adjacent to the western wall of the Prophet’s chamber. <ref>Qāʾidān, ''Tārīkh wa āthār-i Islāmī-i Makka wa Madīna'', p. 193. </ref>

The Al-Sarīr Pillar is named as such because, during his days of Iʿtikāf (spiritual retreat), the Prophet would place his bed, made of palm leaves and wood or matting beside it.<ref>Ibn Zabāla, ''Akhbār al-madīna'', p. 103; Maṭarī, ''Al-Taʿrīf bimā ʾanasat'', p. 91; Najjār, ''Al-Durra al-thamīna'', p. 298.</ref> He would rest there during his retreat and sleep next to it when he needed to rest. <ref>Sayyid al-Wakīl, ''Al-masjid al-nabawīī ʿabar  tārīkh'',  p. 53; Yamānī, ''Mawsūʿa makka al-mukarrama wa al-madina al-munawwara'', vol. 2, p. 430.</ref>