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Buḥrān or Baḥrān (بحران) is an area in Wadi l-Fur', in Hijaz, a region between Mecca and Medina. It is located 24 km south of Medina. According to Ibn Ishaq, Buhran was a mine in Hijaz owned by al-Hajjaj b. 'Alat Bihzi.[1]

Buhran is notable for the Battle of Buhran in the time of Prophet Muhammad (s).[2] The name of this region was also mentioned in the Sariyya of 'Abd Allah b. Jahsh.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān, vol. 1, p. 498-499.
  2. ↑ Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kabīr, vol. 2, p. 24; vol. 4, p. 153; Ibn Hishām, al-Sīra al-nabawīyya, vol. 3, p. 50; Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ, Tārīkh-i Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ, vol. 1, p. 71.
  3. ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī, vol. 2, p. 410-414.

References

  • Ibn Saʿd, Muḥammad. Al-Ṭabaqāt al-kabīr. Edited by Edward Sachau. Netherlands: Leiden, 1325 AH.
  • Ibn Hishām, ʿAbd al-Malik. Al-Sīra al-nabawīyya. Edited by Muṣṭafā al-Saqqā, Ibrāhīm Abyārī and ʿAbd al-Ḥāfīz Shalbī. Cairo: [n.n], 1355 AH.
  • Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ. Tārīkh-i Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ. Edited by Suhayl Zakār. Damascus: [n.n], 1387 AH.
  • Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr al-. Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī. Translated to Farsi by Abū l-Qāsim Pāyanda. Tehran: Asāṭīr, 1369 Sh.
  • Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. Muʿjam al-buldān. [n.p]: [n.n], [n.d].
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