Al-Sahla Mosque: Difference between revisions

'''Al-Sahla Mosque''' (Arabic:{{ia| مسجد السهلة}}), also known as '''al-Suhayl Mosque''' ({{ia| مسجد السهیل}}), '''Banū Ẓafar Mosque''' ({{ia| مسجد بنی ظفر}}) and '''ʿAbd al-Qays Mosque''' ({{ia| مسجد عبدالقیس}}), is one of the best-known Islamic mosques built in the 1st/[[seventh]] century by some Arab tribes of [[Kufa]], about two kilometers northwest of the [[Great Mosque of Kufa]].

The mosque is one of the oldest mosques associated with [[Imam al-Mahdi (a)]], the twelfth Shiite Imam. There is a place, called "maqam"{{enote|It literally means a place in which a prophet or an Imam has said prayer. For instance, [[Maqam Ibrahim (a)]] is a place in which Ibrahim (a) has said prayer}} in the mosque attributed to Imam al-Mahdi (a), and on some accounts, this mosque is where Imam al-Mahdi (a) will live after his [[reappearance]]. In the Shiite culture, al-Sahla Mosque is one of the most important mosques. In different parts of the mosque's courtyard, some [[mihrabs]] are built and each is called in the name of a religious leader, such as maqam of [[Imam al-Sajjad (a)]], [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]], [[Ibrahim (a)]], [[Idris (a)]] and [[Khidr (a)]].

==Appellation==

Al-Sahla Mosque was built by the Banu Zafar tribe, a clan of [[Ansar]]. [[Imam 'Ali (a)]] allegedly took the Banu Zafar Mosque to be equivalent to the Kufa Mosque. The mosque is called al-Suhayl, because its architect was a person called al-Suhayl, and it is called 'Abd al-Qays, because 'Abd al-Qays was the tribe in whose area of residence the mosque was constructed, and it is called Banu Zafar, since they are a clan of the 'Abd al-Qays tribe.

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