Documents of the Right Word

stone for the mosque. Then he said, “O Abâ Bekr! Bring another
stone and put it beside my stone!” Then he had hadrat ’Umar and
hadrat ‘Uthmân each put a stone. Hadrat ’Umar and hadrat
’Uthmân ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anhumâ’ had arrived in Medîna
before. Rasûlullah performed his prayers of namâz in this mosque.
During his stay in Medîna he would come here every week and
perform two rak’ats of namâz called Tehiyyat-ul-mesjîd.
Mesjîd-i-dharâr: It was during the preparations for the Holy
War of Tebuk when some munâfiqs in the village of Kubâ, such as
Hizâm bin Khâlid and the sons of Abû Jayba and Ibni Âmir,
namely Majmâ and Zeyd, and also such vagabonds as Tabtal and
Tajruj and Bejad and Abâd and Wedîa, provoked by Abû Âmir,
designated a place of meeting for themselves and termed this place
the Mesjîd-i-dharâr. Abû Âmir was the maternal first cousin of
Abdullah ibni Ebî, the chieftain of munâfiqs. They asked the
Messenger of Allah to perform namâz in that mosque. The
Prophet said he would do so on returning from the Holy War.
When he was back from the Holy War they came to him and
begged him. Allâhu ta’âlâ informed His Messenger that these
people were munâfiqs and told him not to go there. So Rasûlullah
sent Mâlik bin Dehshem, Sa’d bin Adî and his brother Âsim bin
Adî to the so-called place and had it demolished. It is not known
for certain today where the place exactly was. During the
construction of the mosque, hadrat Abû Bekr, ‘Umar and
’Uthmân were off in Medîna, with the Messenger of Allah. They
were helping Rasûlullah with his preparations for the Holy War of
Tebuk.
Mesjîd-i-Jum’a: is in the valley of Ranona, between Medîna
and Kubâ. This is the place where the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-
Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ performed his first namâz of Friday.
Mesjîd-i-Fadîh: is to the east of Kubâ. In the Holy War of Benî
Nadîr Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ had the army
encamped somewhere around this place and he and his As-hâb
performed namâz for six nights in this mosque.
Mesjîd-i-Benî Qureyza: Our master, the Messenger of Allah,
performed namâz by the minaret of this mosque.
Mesjîd-i Ummi Ibrâhîm: is to the east of the mosque of Benî
Qureyza (the previous one). The Prophet performed namâz here,
too.
Mesjîd-i-Benî Zafer: is to the east of Bakî’ cemetery. The
Messenger of Allah performed namâz in this mosque and then,
– 176 –