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According to [['Allama Tabataba'i]], Ahqaf is definitely located in southern parts of [[Arabian Peninsula]] which no remnants of the land have survived today. However, there is a disagreement over the exact location of Ahqaf. It is believed by some people to be located in a desert between [[Oman]] and al-Mahra in [[Yemen]]. Others take it to be a sabulous desert adjacent to the sea in Ash-Shihr in Yemen. In some other sources, it is taken to be located in sabulous lands between Oman and [[Hadhramaut]].

Medieval Muslim geographers believed that Ahqaf was a sabulous land in "al-Ramla" or "Rub' al-Khali" (the Empty Quarter). However, contemporary European geographers take it to include the whole al-Ramla or its western part. Since the land is hot and dry, geographers refer to it as the "Empty Quarter" since no one lives there. According to Bi-Azar Shirazi, Bedouins in southern parts of [[Saudi Arabia]] refer to a mountainous area extending from western coasts of Dhofar to [[Eden]] (the center of which is Hadhramaut) as "al-Ahqaf". A grave is said to be located in Ahqaf, which is attributed to [[Prophet Hud (a)]].