Draft:Mount Radwa
Mount Radwa (Arabic: جبل رَضْوَی; transliteration: Jabal Raḍwā) is a mountain near Medina. In some Shi'a narrations, it is introduced as the place of residence of Imam al-Mahdi (a) during his occultation.[1] This mountain is also mentioned in a part of Al-Nudba Supplication:
| “ | I wish I knew where your remoteness has settled you? Or which land or soil carries you? Is it in Radwa or elsewhere, or in Dhi Tuwa? | ” |
Mount Radwa is among the mountains of Tihama [3] which is situated between Mecca and Medina[4] in the northeast of Yanbu' al-Bahr.[5] This mountain is red in color and overlooks the coast and no settlement between the mountain and the sea.[6] It is said that Radwa is a high mountain with an abundance of water and trees.[7]
References to Mount Radwa have been made in narrations.[8] For instance, a narration states that Mount Radwa is a mountain with which God is pleased and it is a mountain that loves us.[9] Radwa has been introduced as one of the mountains of Paradise.[10]
Believers in the Mahdawiyya of Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya believe that he lives in this mountain.[11] Muhammad b. 'Abd Allah b. al-Hasan, titled Al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, also hid in Mount Radwa for some time during the reign of Al-Mansur al-'Abbasi.[12]
Notes
- ↑ Shaykh Ṭūsī, al-Ghayba, 1411 AH, p. 163.
- ↑ Ibn al-Mashhadī, al-Mazār al-kabīr, 1419 AH, p. 581.
- ↑ Ḥimyarī, al-Rawḍ al-mi'ṭār, 1984, p. 269.
- ↑ Baghdādī, Marāṣid al-iṭṭilā', 1412 AH, vol. 2, p. 620.
- ↑ Samhūdī, Wafā' al-wafā, 1419 AH, vol. 4, pp. 80-81.
- ↑ Sharāb, al-Ma'ālim al-athīra, 1411 AH, p. 129.
- ↑ Ḥamawī, Mu'jam al-buldān, 1995, vol. 3, p. 51.
- ↑ See: Shaykh Ṣadūq, Thawāb al-a'māl, 1406 AH, p. 289; Samhūdī, Wafā' al-wafā, 1419 AH, vol. 4, p. 81.
- ↑ Samhūdī, Wafā' al-wafā, 1419 AH, vol. 4, p. 81.
- ↑ Samhūdī, Wafā' al-wafā, 1419 AH, vol. 4, p. 81.
- ↑ Ḥamawī, Mu'jam al-buldān, 1995, vol. 3, p. 51; Baghdādī, Marāṣid al-iṭṭilā', 1412 AH, vol. 2, p. 620; Ḥimyarī, al-Rawḍ al-mi'ṭār, 1984, p. 269.
- ↑ Ṭabarī, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, 1387 AH, vol. 7, p. 535.
References
- Baghdādī, 'Abd al-Mu'min b. 'Abd al-Ḥaqq, Marāṣid al-iṭṭilā' 'alā asmā' al-amkina wa l-biqā', Beirut, Dār al-Jīl, 1412 AH.
- Ḥamawī Baghdādī, Yāqūt, Mu'jam al-buldān, Beirut, Dār Ṣādir, 1995.
- Ḥimyarī, Muḥammad b. 'Abd al-Mun'im, al-Rawḍ al-mi'ṭār fī khabar al-aqṭār, Beirut, Maktaba Lubnān, 1984.
- Al-Ḥurr al-'Āmilī, Muḥammad Ḥasan, Wasā'il al-Shī'a, Qom, Mu'assisa Āl al-Bayt li-Iḥyā' al-Turāth, n.d.
- Ibn al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad b. Ja'far, al-Mazār al-kabīr, ed. Qayyūmī Iṣfahānī, Jawād, Qom, Daftar-i Intishārāt-i Islāmī, 1419 AH.
- Samhūdī, 'Alī b. 'Abd Allāh, Wafā' al-wafā bi-akhbār Dār al-Muṣṭafā, Beirut, Dār al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyya, 1419 AH.
- Sharāb, Muḥammad Muḥammad Ḥasan, al-Ma'ālim al-athīra fī l-sunna wa l-sīra, Damascus, Dār al-Qalam, 1411 AH.
- Shaykh Ṣadūq, Muḥammad b. 'Alī b. Bābawayh, Thawāb al-a'māl wa 'iqāb al-a'māl, Qom, Dār al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, 1406 AH.
- Shaykh Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. Ḥasan, al-Ghayba, ed. Tehrānī, 'Ibādallāh & Nāṣiḥ, 'Alī Aḥmad, Qom, Dār al-Ma'ārif al-Islāmiyya, 1411 AH.
- Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr, Tārīkh al-umam wa l-mulūk, ed. Muḥammad Abū l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm, Dār al-Turāth, 1387 AH/1967.