The Prophet's prayer places between Medina and Tabuk
مساجد النبي بين المدينة وتبوك
October 630 CE · Rajab 9 AH
Ibn Ishaq names seventeen places where the Prophet had known, named mosques between Medina and Tabuk — the first a mosque at Tabuk and the last a mosque at Dhi Khushub.
At a glance
- Era
- The Prophetic Era
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Summary
Ibn Ishaq enumerates seventeen places between Medina and Tabuk where the Prophet had known, named mosques. 1
The places
A mosque at Tabuk; at Thaniyyat Madaran; at Dhat al-Zurab; at al-Akhdar; at Dhat al-Khitmi; at Ala'; at Taraf al-Batra' from Dhanab Kawakib; at al-Shiqq (Shiqq Tara); at Dhi al-Jifa; at Sadr Hawda; at al-Hijr; at al-Su'ayd; at al-Wadi (today's Wadi al-Qura); at al-Raq'a of al-Shiqqa (Shiqqa of Banu Udhra); at Dhi al-Marwa; at al-Fayfa'; and at Dhi Khashab. 1 The table is in the dataset.
Source notes and markers of doubt
- "Dhat al-Khitmi" is verified on the page image (machine reading confuses it).
- The text does not pinpoint these mosques' locations, nor whether they were buildings or prayer-stations; the heading's word "masajid" is Ibn Ishaq's wording.
- Three of the places have pages from batch 6: al-Akhdar, al-Hijr and Tabuk.
Connections
- Part of
- The expedition to Tabuk
- Occurred at
- Tabuk
- Had participant
- Muhammad
People and things also explored
Abu Dharr lags behind and follows on footAbu Khaythama catches up with the ProphetThe burial of Dhu al-Bijadayn at TabukA group of hypocrites mock the army, then excuse themselvesThe stay at Tabuk and the return to MedinaThe Prophet's she-camel strays and Zayd ibn al-Lusayt's remarkThe treaty with Yuhanna ibn Ru'ba, lord of AylaThe treaty with Ukaydir
Sources
- al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/174-175
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The Prophet's prayer places between Medina and Tabuk”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/prophets-mosques-between-medina-and-tabuk/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.