Jannat al-Mu'alla

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Jannat al-Mu'alla (Template:Langx), also known as the "Cemetery of Ma'la"[1] (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang".) and Al-Ḥajūn (Template:Langx), is a cemetery to the north of Al-Masjid Al-Haram, and near the Mosque of the Jinn in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. It is the place where the Islamic prophet Muhammad's wife, grandfather, and other ancestors are buried.

History

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Jannat al-Mu'allah before 1925, during the Ottoman period

Many of Muhammad's relatives were buried in this cemetery before his Hijrah in 622.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Many domes and structures have been built or rebuilt over known graves over the years.[2] Tombs in this cemetery were demolished in 1925, the same year that the Jannat al-Baqi' cemetery in Medina was demolished by the Saudi King, Ibn Saud. According to Wahabi tradition of Sunni Islam, shrines are forbidden to be built over a grave so as to not take any saint or dead person for worship. This happened despite protests by the international Shia community.[3] Some Shiites continue to mourn the day the House of Saud demolished shrines in Al-Baqi, which has been named Yaum-e Gham or "Day of Sorrow", and protest the Saudi government's demolition of these shrines.

Notable interments

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Khadija's tomb at Jannat al-Mu'alla cemetery, before its destruction in 1925

Historical figures buried here include:

Name Notes
Companions of Muhammad
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib Uncle of Muhammad; father of Ali and Chief of Banu Hashim
Abd Manaf Great-great-grandfather of Muhammad and Ali
Abd al-Muttalib Grandfather of Muhammad and Ali
Khadijah The wife of Muhammad and mother of Zainab, Fatimah, Ruqayya and Umm Kulthum of Banu Asad (tribe)
Qasim ibn Muhammad the first son of Muhammad and Khadijah
Asma bint Abu Bakr A companion of Muhammad and mother of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
Abdullah ibn Zubair A companion of Muhammad and a nephew of Aisha
Notable Burials of Scholars and Mashaikh
al-Mansur Second Abbasid Caliph and the founder of Baghdad
Rahmatullah Kairanwi 19th-century Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author of Izhar ul-Haqq[4]
Imdadullah Muhajir Makki Another 19th-century Indian Muslim scholar[5]
Abu Turab al-Zahiri 20th-century Muslim cleric
Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki 20th-century Sunni Muslim cleric
Mulla Ali Qari Herawi Sunni scholar of Tafseer Quran, Fiqh, Theology, Arabic Language
Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad Sunni scholar of Islam prominent in Yemen, Africa, and Saudi Arabia
Sheikh Ismail Mahamud Cigaal Sunni Scholar of Islam prominent in Somalia and East Africa

See also

References

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