The Prophet ﷺ prayed the Friday prayer in the quarter of Banī Sālim, and the Companions – may Allah be pleased with them – built a mosque at the place of his prayer. It is narrated that the Prophet ﷺ rode from Qubāʾ on Friday and performed the Friday prayer among Banī Sālim, so the…

The mosque stands on a small black hill known as Jabal Dhubāb and Jabal al-Rāyah, at the beginning of Ṭarīq al-ʿUyūn (the road to the springs), on the left side of the road for one who is going out along it. The Prophet’s Tent ﷺ on Jabal Dhubāb and the Appearance of a Miracle At…

This masjid is called both Masjid al-Sajdah and Masjid al-Shukr, and it is one of the places in Madinah where the Prophet ﷺ is known to have prayed and performed sujūd. Abd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf رضي الله عنه says:The Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out, and I followed him until he entered a date-palm garden.…

Suqya is a place in the western lava-plain of Madinah. In it lay a tract of land belonging to Sa‘d ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, and most of that land is now inside the enclosure of the new Hijaz Railway Station. Because of this land and the well there, the surrounding district came to be known as…

There were, in that area, two forts belonging to some Jews. They were called al-Shaykhān, and due to the eminence of these two forts the mosque in which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed when he was going out to (the battle of) Uḥud was named after them. Main events that happened at Masjid al-Shaykhayn…