The second holiest mosque
After al-Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, it is the second holiest site in Islam.
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The mosque built by the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in Madinah in 622 CE.
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi was built by the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in 1 AH (622 CE), shortly after the Hijrah from Makkah to Madinah, and he took part in its construction himself. The first building was simple: walls of mud brick, pillars of palm trunks, and a roof of palm fronds.
It was a place of prayer, a school, and the meeting place of the first Muslim community. The Prophet ﷺ is buried within the mosque, in what was the room of his wife Aishah, together with his companions Abu Bakr and Umar.
The mosque has been expanded many times: by the caliphs Umar and Uthman, then under the Umayyads, Abbasids, Mamluks, and Ottomans, and on the largest scale by the Saudi state, most notably the King Fahd expansion completed in 1994.
A prayer here
A prayer in this mosque is better than a thousand prayers elsewhere, except al-Masjid al-Haram (Sahih al-Bukhari 1190; Sahih Muslim 1394).
Prayer timesOne of three mosques
Journeys for worship are made to three mosques only: al-Masjid al-Haram, this mosque, and al-Masjid al-Aqsa (Sahih al-Bukhari 1189; Sahih Muslim 1397).
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