page_title: Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
section_title: First Saudi insurgency (1805-1811 CE or 1220-1226 AH)
hierarchical_section_title: Al-Masjid an-Nabawi / History / First Ottoman period (1517-1805 & 1840-1919 CE or 923-1220 & 1256-1337 AH) / First Saudi insurgency (1805-1811 CE or 1220-1226 AH)
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Masjid-e-Nabawi Gate 21, 22 as seen from the north with bab e Malik al-Fahad in the background with two minarets
context_page_description: Al-Masjid an-Nabawī, known in English as The Prophet's Mosque, and also known as Al Haram, Al Haram Al Madani and Al Haram Al Nabawi by locals, is a mosque built by the last Islamic prophet Muhammad in the city of Medina in the Al Madinah Province of Saudi Arabia. It was the second mosque built by Muhammad in Madinah, after Masjid Quba'a, and is now one of the largest mosques in the world. It is the second-holiest site in Islam, after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. It is always open, regardless of date or time, and was only closed to visitors in modern times, once, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  The land of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi belonged to two young orphans, Sahl and Suhayl, and when they came to know that Muhammad wished to acquire their land for the purposes of erecting a mosque, they went to the Prophet and offered the land to him as a gift; the Prophet insisted on paying a price for the land because they were orphaned children. The price agreed upon was paid by Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, who thus became the endower or donor of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi on behalf of, or in favor of, Muhammad. al-Ansari also accommodated Muhammad upon his arrival at Madinah in 622.
context_section_description: When Saud bin Abdul-Aziz took Medina in 1805, his followers, the Wahhabis, demolished nearly every tomb and dome in Medina in order to prevent their veneration, and the Green Dome is said to have narrowly escaped the same fate. They considered the veneration of tombs and places thought to possess supernatural powers as an offence against tawhid and an act of shirk. The Prophet Muhammad's tomb was stripped of its gold and jewel ornaments, but the dome was preserved either because of an unsuccessful attempt to demolish its hardened structure, or because some time ago Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, founder of the Wahhabi movement, wrote that he did not wish to see the dome destroyed despite his aversion to people praying at the tomb.
caption: View of Masjid-e-Nabawi Gate 21, 22 as seen from the north, the gate with two minarets is Bāb Al-Malik Fahd (Arabic: بَاب الْمَلِك فَهْد‎, lit. 'Gate of the King Fahd')
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