Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet

{{Short description|Mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan}}

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The Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet, also known as Jame Mui Mobarak, is a mosque near the Kabul Bazaar, in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The mosque was built in the 19th century by Kohendil Khan.{{cite web |url=http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/afghanistan/Units/287.html |title= Mosque of the Hair of the Prophet |access-date=2008-06-13 }}{{cn|date=May 2022}} A canal runs through the mosque's shaded courtyard.{{cite book |editor=Girardet, Edward |editor2=Jonathan Walter |title= Afghanistan|publisher= CROSSLINES Communications, Ltd. |location=Geneva |pages= 291}} At one point, there was a traveler's rest house there.{{cite web|url=http://www.afghanembassy.com.pl/cms/en/afghanistan/kandahar|title=Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan|access-date=2008-06-13|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408051246/http://www.afghanembassy.com.pl/cms/en/afghanistan/kandahar|archive-date=2008-04-08}}

The hair of Muhammad contained in the mosque was brought to Kandahar at the same time that the cloak of Muhammad was brought to the Mosque of the Cloak of the Prophet Mohammed. The hair is kept in a side chapel in a golden sheath in a casket piled over with holy blankets and banners.

Maulavi Khattib, the caretaker of the mosque, is one of the senior members of the Kandahar Ulema-u-Shura, or Cleric's Council.{{cite news |first= Carlotta|last= Gall |title= Taliban Are Killing Clerics Who Dispute Holy War Call |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DE113EF937A3575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |work= The New York Times|date= 2003-08-04|access-date=2008-06-13 }}