Jannat al-Baqi

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Jannatu l-Baqī‘ (Arabic: جنة البقيع‎) (also spelt Jannat al-Baqī‘) is a cemetery in Medina, Saudi Arabia, located across from the Masjid al-Nabawi, in the southeastern of the mosque where the Islamic prophet Muhammad is buried. This cemetery contains many of Muhammad's relatives and companions. Its name means "The Garden of Heaven",It is lso known with its old famous name Baqee Al Garqad, baqee means Garden or land with grew plants and Al Garqad is The large Lycium shawii trees (In Arabic:Alaosaj) a species of Boxthorn Plants. Many traditions relate Muhammad issuing a prayer every time he passed the cemetery.

Contents 1 History 2 Demolished Shrines 3 Some important personalities buried at Jannat al-Baqi 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

[edit] History

When Muhammad (s. a.) arrived at Medina from Mecca in September 622 Albaqee was a land covered with Lycium shawii trees ,during the construction of the Masjid al-Nabawi, Asa'ad Bin Zararah one of Muhammad's companions died to be the first to buried in albaqee cemetery among Ansar. While Muhammad was outside Medina for Battle of Badr his daughter Roqayyah was sick and died in 624 she buried in Albaqee by her husband Uthman ibn Affan. Shortly after Muhammad arrived from Badr Uthman Bin Mazoun died and buried in Albaqee, Uthman Bin Mazoun considered the first companion of Muhammad from Muhajirun to be buried in Albaqee Cemetery .

The first enlargement of The Cemetery in history was made by Muawiyah the first Umayyad larder to bring the hush kaukab Farm where Uthman ibn Affan buried inside Albaqi Cemetery. Umayyad built first dome in albaqi over Uthman ibn Affan grave, during a different time of history many domes and structures were built or rebuilt over many famous graves in albaqi.

[edit] Demolished Shrines

Prior to the twentieth century, many of the graves were covered with domes or other structures.after the city of Medina was taken by King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, many of these domes and structures, originally intended to identify famous companions of Muhammad, were destroyed in 1925 since main Salafi and sunni scholars complying with the Hadith narrated that Muhammad order to not cover or build structures over any grave^[1][2] and in order to prevent people from seek a means of approach to Allāh (a request for blessings, in this world or for intercessions in the hereafter) or seeking the help of the dead . Unlike Shia and some sufi, This (tawassul) along with reading chapters from Islam's holy book, The Qur'an in this particular way (seeking the help of the dead ), is considered by Salafi and sunni as being Shirk, the sin of idolatry . Namely the governors of two, of the three, of Islam's holy places consider these kinds of practice during visits as Shirk, and therefore it should be eradicated in all forms and as a result is that often some books and maps of the graves are confiscated by the authorities.This Resulting basically from the differences in the sources of Hadith between sunni and Shia^[3][4] .

Despite this, the graves of many historic figures continue to be visited by numerous pilgrims, and burials continue at the cemetery up until this day.

Many Shia continue to mourn the day that the House of Saud demolished Shrines in the Baqi cemetery. Shia remember it by calling this day Yaum e Gham, literally meaning Day of Sorrow. Shia continue to protest the Saudi government's demolition of These shrines.

[edit] Some important personalities buried at Jannat al-Baqi

• Ibrahim – Muhammad's son by Maria al-Qibtiyya, died in infancy
• Fatima Zahra – Muhammad's daughter by first wife Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, in an unknown grave
• Hasan ibn Ali, 2nd Shia Imam, grandson of Muhammad, son of Fatima
• Ali ibn Husayn, 4th Shia Imam, great-grandson of Muhammad
• Muhammad al-Baqir, 5th Shia Imam
• Jafar Sadiq, 6th Shia Imam (as)
• Malik ibn Anas, Islamic jurist
• Imam Shamil, Dagestan leader
• Uthman ibn Affan - The third Caliph of the Rashidun
• Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad
• All of mothers of the believers, Muhammad's wives, except for Khadijah and Maymuna bint al-Harith
• Many of Muhammad's aunts: Safiya and Aatika, and his aunt Fatima bint al-Asad, the mother of Hazrat Ali.

[edit] See also

• Destruction of sites associated with early Islam

[edit] External links

• Map of Jannat al Baqi according to sunni muslim sources
• Map of Jannat al Baqi(shia sources)
• History of the Cemetery of Jannat al-Baqi
• The Baqi Collection Photos
• Save the Hijaz Website dedicated to preserving Islamic heritage in the Hijaz

[edit] References

1. ^ Sahih Muslim Volume 5 Page 90
2. ^ Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad. Musnad Ahmad. Volume 5 pg. 183
3. ^ "Sunni Hadith's View
4. ^ "Shi'a Hadith's View