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House of al-Arqam b. Abi l-Arqam
General Information
Founderal-Arqam b. Abi l-Arqam
TypeThe site for secret preaching of Islam at the beginning of the Prophetic Mission
LocationNear Mount Safa
Other namesDar al-Islam
Related eventsSecret invitation to Islam by the Prophet, the site for secret worship of the Prophet and his companions
Specifications
StatusEndowed by al-Arqam, forced purchase by al-Mansur al-Abbasi and given as a gift to his son Mahdi, became part of al-Masjid al-Haram in the expansion of 1375 AH


The House of al-Arqam b. Abi l-Arqam was the location where the Prophet of Islam, at the beginning of the invitation to Islam, invited people to the religion of Islam and taught the Muslims.[1] Muslims would attend this house secretly and worship God[2] until their number reached forty, after which they made their religion public.[3] This house was located in Mecca, near Mount Safa[4] and, due to its role at the beginning of the invitation, was called "Dar al-Islam".[5] Events of the Meccan period in books of sira are usually organized with reference to whether they occurred before or after this house.[6]

al-Arqam later endowed his house as a waqf so that its sale or purchase would not be possible.[7] Even his children paid rent to reside there.[8] Eventually, al-Mansur al-Abbasi forced the children of al-Arqam to sell the house and gave it as a gift to his son al-Mahdi al-Abbasi.[9] Mahdi then gave the house to his wife Khayzuran,[10] and Khayzuran built a mosque in it;[11] hence, it was called "Dar al-Khayzuran" for a while.[12] In 1375 AH, during an expansion ordered by Sa'ud b. 'Abd al-'Aziz, the house was incorporated into al-Masjid al-Haram.[13]

al-Arqam b. Abi l-Arqam was a companion of the Prophet and, according to one report, the seventh Muslim.[14] He participated in the Battle of Badr, Battle of Uhud, and other battles[15] and passed away in Medina during the time of Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyan.[16]

Notes

  1. ↑ Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā, 1410 AH, vol. 3, pp. 183-184.
  2. ↑ Ṣāliḥī Dimashqī, Subul al-hudā, 1414 AH, vol. 2, p. 319.
  3. ↑ Ibn Qāniʿ al-Baghdādī, Muʿjam al-ṣaḥāba, 1424 AH, vol. 2, p. 449.
  4. ↑ Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī, Maʿrifat al-ṣaḥāba, 1419 AH, vol. 1, p. 293.
  5. ↑ Ibn Saʿd, al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā, 1410 AH, vol. 3, pp. 183-184.
  6. ↑ Jaʿfariyān, Āthār-i Islāmī-yi Makka wa Madīna, 1387 Sh, p. 157.
  7. ↑ Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Muntaẓam, 1412 AH, vol. 5, p. 279.
  8. ↑ Ibn al-Jawzī, al-Muntaẓam, 1412 AH, vol. 5, p. 280.
  9. ↑ Ṣafadī, al-Wāfī bi-l-wafayāt, 1401 AH, vol. 8, p. 363.
  10. ↑ Ibn al-Jawzī, Ṣifat al-ṣafwa, 1423 AH, vol. 1, p. 230.
  11. ↑ Ṣafadī, al-Wāfī bi-l-wafayāt, 1401 AH, vol. 8, p. 363.
  12. ↑ Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī, Maʿrifat al-ṣaḥāba, 1419 AH, vol. 1, p. 293.
  13. ↑ Jaʿfariyān, Āthār-i Islāmī-yi Makka wa Madīna, 1387 Sh, p. 157.
  14. ↑ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣāba, 1415 AH, vol. 1, p. 197.
  15. ↑ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, al-Iṣāba, 1415 AH, vol. 1, p. 198.
  16. ↑ Ibn al-Athīr, Usd al-ghāba, 1409 AH, vol. 1, p. 75.

References

  • Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh. Maʿrifat al-ṣaḥāba. Edited by Muḥammad Ḥasan Ismāʿīl Shāfiʿī. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1419 AH.
  • Ibn al-Athīr, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad. Usd al-ghāba fī maʿrifat al-ṣaḥāba. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1409 AH.
  • Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī. al-Iṣāba fī tamyīz al-ṣaḥāba. Edited by ʿĀdil Aḥmad ʿAbd al-Mawjūd and ʿAlī Muḥammad Muʿawwaḍ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1415 AH.
  • Ibn al-Jawzī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī. al-Muntaẓam. Edited by Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAṭā and Muṣṭafā ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAṭā. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1412 AH.
  • Ibn al-Jawzī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī. Ṣifat al-ṣafwa. Edited by Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Ramaḍān and Saʿīd Muḥammad Laḥḥām. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1423 AH.
  • Ibn Qāniʿ al-Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Bāqī. Muʿjam al-ṣaḥāba. Edited by Khalil Ibrāhīm Qūtilāy. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1424 AH.
  • Ibn Saʿd, Muḥammad. al-Ṭabaqāt al-kubrā. Edited by Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAṭā. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1410 AH.
  • Jaʿfariyān, Rasūl. Āthār-i Islāmī-yi Makka wa Madīna. Tehran: Mashʿar, 1387 Sh.
  • Ṣāliḥī Dimashqī, Muḥammad b. Yūsuf. Subul al-hudā wa-l-rashād fī sīrat khayr al-ʿibād. Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 1414 AH.
  • Ṣafadī, Khalil b. Aybak al-. al-Wāfī bi-l-wafayāt. Edited by Helmut Ritter. Beirut: Dār al-Nashr, 1401 AH.
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