Makkah Al Mukarramah Library

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| caption = The library which stands on the spot where Muhammad is believed to have been born

| country = Saudi Arabia

| type = Islamic library

| scope = Islam (Ziyarat)

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| ref_legal_mandate = Saudi King 'Abdul-'Aziz bin 'Abdul-Rahman Al Saud

| location = {{nowrap|Near Al-Masjid al-Haram,}} Makkah, Makkah Province, Hejaz

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The Makkah Al Mukarramah Library ({{langx|ar|{{Script|Arab|مَكْتَبَة مَكَّة ٱلْمُكَرَّمَة}}|Maktabah Makkah Al-Mukarramah}}){{cite book |last=Hīlah |first=Muḥammad Al-Ḥabīb |title=Fahras Makhṭūṭāt Maktabat Makkah al-Mukarramah |trans-title=Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of Makkah Al-Mukarramah |publisher=Muʾassasat al-Furqān lil-Turāth al-Islāmī (Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation) |isbn=978-1-8739-9210-4 |language=ar |location=Mecca, Saudi Arabia |edition=1 |doi= |url= |date=1994-03-01}}{{cite book |last=Hīlah |first=Muḥammad Al-Ḥabīb |title=Fahras Makhṭūṭāt Maktabat Makkah al-Mukarramah |trans-title=Handlist of Manuscripts in the Library of Makkah Al-Mukarramah |publisher=Muʾassasat al-Furqān lil-Turāth al-Islāmī (Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation), Markaz Dirasat Maqasid Al-Shariah Al-Islamiyah |isbn=978-1-8739-9209-8 |language=ar |location=Mecca, Saudi Arabia |edition=2 |doi= |url= |date=1994-12-31}} is a library near the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Since it is believed to stand on the spot where the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born, it is also known as Bayt al-Mawlid ({{langx|ar|{{Script|Arab|بَيْت ٱلْمَوْلِد}}|lit=House of the Birth}}).{{cite web |last=Ibrahim |first=Dr. Abdul-Wahhab Abu Sulaiman |title=Establishing The Location of the Bayt al-Mawlid |publisher=Dar al-Hadith |url=https://www.daralhadith.org.uk/establishing-the-location-of-the-bayt-al-mawlid/ |date=2012-04-07 |access-date=2022-07-18}}{{cite web |website=Hajj & Umrah Planner |title=Bayt al-Mawlid |location=Makkah |url=https://hajjumrahplanner.com/bayt-al-mawlid/ |access-date=2022-07-18}}

History

File:Place of Birth of Hazrat Muhammad SAW at Makkah - panoramio.jpgs visiting the building in November 2008]]

= Ancient =

Amina bint Wahb is believed to have given birth to Muhammad{{cite book |last=Al-A'zami |first=Muhammad Mustafa |author-link=Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami |year=2003 |title=The History of The Qur'anic Text: From Revelation to Compilation: A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments |pages=22–24 |publisher=UK Islamic Academy |isbn=978-1-8725-3165-6}} in the month of Rabi' al-Awwal,{{cite encyclopedia |author=Anis Ahmad |title=Dīn |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |editor-last=Esposito |editor-first=John L. |editor-link=John L. Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, England, the U.K. |year=2009 |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e1102 |url-access=subscription |quote=A second important aspect of the meaning of the term emerges in Meccan revelations concerning the practice of the Prophet Abraham. Here it stands for the straight path (al-dīn al-ḥanīf) toward which Abraham and other messengers called the people [...] The Qurʿān asserts that this was the path or practice followed by Abraham [...] In the final analysis, dīn encompasses social and spiritual, as well the legal and political behaviour of the believers as a comprehensive way of life, a connotation wider than the word "religion." |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205093241/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e1102 |archive-date=5 December 2017 }} circa 53 B.H. or 570 C.E.{{cite journal |doi=10.1017/S0041977X00049016 |last=Conrad |first=Lawrence I. |year=1987 |title=Abraha and Muhammad: some observations apropos of chronology and literary topoi in the early Arabic historical tradition1 |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=225–40 |s2cid=162350288 }}{{cite book |publisher=G. Bell |author=Sherrard Beaumont Burnaby |title=Elements of the Jewish and Muhammadan calendars: with rules and tables and explanatory notes on the Julian and Gregorian calendars |year=1901 |url=https://archive.org/details/elementsofjewish00burnuoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/elementsofjewish00burnuoft/page/465 465] }}{{cite journal |pages=6–12 |last=Hamidullah |first=Muhammad |author-link=Muhammad Hamidullah |title=The Nasi', the Hijrah Calendar and the Need of Preparing a New Concordance for the Hijrah and Gregorian Eras: Why the Existing Western Concordances are Not to be Relied Upon |journal=The Islamic Review & Arab Affairs |date=February 1969 |url=http://aaiil.org/text/articles/islamicreview/1969/02feb/islamicreview_196902.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105021544/http://aaiil.org/text/articles/islamicreview/1969/02feb/islamicreview_196902.pdf |archive-date=5 November 2012 }} Her husband, Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, had died three{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/396226/Muhammad/251794/The-life-of-Muhammad#ref=ref894022 |title=Muhammad: Prophet of Islam |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=28 September 2009 |access-date=28 September 2009}} to six{{cite book |last=Meri |first=Josef W. |author-link=Josef W. Meri |title=Medieval Islamic civilization |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-k9oc9xsuAC |access-date=3 January 2013 |volume=1 |year=2004 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-96690-0 |page=525 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114153019/http://books.google.com/books?id=H-k9oc9xsuAC |archive-date=14 November 2012 }} months prior.{{cite web |url=https://www.al-islam.org/life-muhammad-prophet-sayyid-saeed-akhtar-rizvi/early-years |title=Early Years |website=Al-Islam.org |date=18 October 2012 |access-date=18 October 2018}}