Mawlid in Makkah According to Muslim Historians

[Walid]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu


ASALATU WASALAMU ALAYKA YA RASULLALLAH

Celebration at the Birthplace of the Prophet Salla Allahu ta'ala alayhi wa Sallam



Mawlid in Makkah According to Muslim Historians



In his book Akhbar Makkah, Vol. 2, p. 160, the 3rd-century historian of Makkah, al-Azraqi, mentions as one of the many places in Makkah in which the performance of salat is desirable (mustahabb), the house where the Prophet was born (Mawlid an-Nabi). According to him, the house had previously been turned into a mosque by the mother of the caliphs Musa al-Hadi and Harun ar-Rashid.


The Qur'anic scholar al-Naqqash (266-351) mentions the birthplace of the Prophet as a place where du`a by noon on Mondays is answered. He is quoted in al-Fasi's Shifa' al-gharam Vol. 1, p. 199, and others.

[Walid]

Earliest Mentions of the Public Mawlid


The oldest source that mentions a public commemoration of the Mawlid is in Ibn Jubayr's (540-614) Rihal ("Travels"), p. 114-115:

"This blessed place [the house of the Prophet] is opened, and all men enter it to derive blessing from it (mutabarrikin bihi), on every Monday of the month of Rabi` al-Awwal; for on that day and in that month was born the Prophet."

The 7th-century historians Abul `Abbas al-`Azafi and his son Abul Qasim al-`Azafi wrote in their unpublished Kitab ad-durr al-munazzam:

"Pious pilgrims and prominent travellers testified that, on the day of the mawlid in Makkah, no activities are undertaken, and nothing is sold or bought, except by the people who are busy visiting his noble birthplace, and rush to it. On this day the Ka`ba is opened and visited."


source: www.sunnah.org/arabic/mawldhouse/history_of_the_mawlid_house.htm

[Akhtar Hussain]

Mashallah,

Those that say the Prophet never celebrated his birthday or the sahaba didnt forget that celebration is zikr, praying darood, sending salaam is zikr.

AND WHAT ABOUT WAHHABI AND DEOBANDI MAWLIDS AND FESTIVALS DO THEY NOT COUNT,

Those that deny muslims going to masjid, listening to seerah, listening to naat in praise of the Messenger sallahu alaihi wasallam need to cross examine their concience a lot more closely.

[farid s]

akhtarhussain said:

Mashallah,

Those that say the Prophet never celebrated his birthday or the sahaba didnt forget that celebration is zikr, praying darood, sending salaam is zikr.

AND WHAT ABOUT WAHHABI AND DEOBANDI MAWLIDS AND FESTIVALS DO THEY NOT COUNT,

Those that deny muslims going to masjid, listening to seerah, listening to naat in praise of the Messenger sallahu alaihi wasallam need to cross examine their concience a lot more closely.

funny enough some doebandis have started to believe in milad