سقيفة بني ساعدة

سقيفة بني ساعدة

The roofed hall of Banu Sa'ida where the Ansar met after the Prophet's death and Abu Bakr was acclaimed; al-Samhudi argues it stood by the market of Medina at what is now Darb al-Suwayqa — in the Jirar Sa'd quarter where Sa'd ibn Ubada's sept lived — not at the Banu Sa'ida village by Bi'r Buda'a as al-Matari held, for Sa'd was among his own sept and the saqifa stood by his house ¹.