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Jabal 'Ayr

جبل عَيْر

Medina

A large, well-known mountain on the qibla side of Medina near Dhu'l-Hulayfa, the town's miqat; in the haram hadith 'between 'Ayr and Thawr is inviolable' it marks the southern limit of the sanctuary 1.

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Medina

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Overview

Mount Ayr is a large, well-known mountain to the south-west of Medina, near Dhu al-Hulayfa, the station of pilgrimage for its people. 2

The sanctuary boundary

In the hadith on the sanctity of Medina, "what lies between Ayr and Thawr is sacred", so Ayr is the southern boundary of the sanctuary, as al-Samhudi reports. 2 See the sanctuary of Medina.

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The Sanctuary of Medina
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Medina

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

Sources

  1. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print), p. 105
  2. Wafa al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa — al-Samhudi (older print), p.105
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The Sanctuary of Medina

The Prophet's declaration of Medina as a sanctuary, as Abraham sanctified Mecca, with defined bounds — 'between 'Ayr and Thawr' or, in the reading preferred by al-Hazimi and Abu 'Ubayd, 'to Uhud', and 'between its two lava fields' east and west; within it hunting and tree-cutting are forbidden save specified exceptions, the bloodwit for unintended killing is made heavier, and innovation or harbouring an innovator is proscribed. Samhudi credits the sanctity of the boundary with diverting the fire of 654 as it reached the haram.