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Ibn Jubayr visits Medina

ابن جبير يزور المدينة

c. 1184 CE · 580 AH – c. 1184 CE · 580 AH

Medina

Ibn Jubayr visited Medina describing the Prophet ﷺ's mosque, the tomb, the Rawda and Quba 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb · Egypt & Nile · Arabia · Levant & Iraq
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1170118011901200 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Medina

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Occurred at
Medina
Had participant
Ibn Jubayr, Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Kinani

People and things also explored

Mosque of the Two Qiblas· Prophet's Mosque· The Sanctuary of Medina· Judaism in Arabia before Islam· Medina's society at the Hijra· The utum (tower-fortresses) of Yathrib· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Bakr leads the prayers during the final illness

Sources

  1. The Travels of Ibn Jubayr, Arabic text (Gibb Memorial, 1907)
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Mosque of the Two Qiblas

The Banu Salama mosque of Medina, named 'of the two qiblas' because the qibla was turned in it: Ibn Zabala reports that a man of Banu Salama reached them at dawn prayer with word of the change and they turned mid-prayer to the Kaaba — while al-Zamakhshari and the sira tradition make the change fall at zuhr when the Prophet had prayed two rak'as with his Companions, then turned to face the Mizab, the men and women exchanging places; Ibn Hajar reconciles the reports, and al-Majd notes that on Ibn Zabala's version Quba mosque would better deserve the name. Ibn Zabala ascribes the mosque to Banu Sawad ibn Ghanm of Banu Salama by al-Midhad, against al-Matari's ascription to Banu Haram.