Jabal al-Thawr

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Jabal al-Thawr (Arabic: جبل الثور) (lit Mount of the Bull) is the name of a mountain in Saudi Arabia, located in the lower part of Mecca to the south of the district of Misfalah[1].

[edit] Cave

The Mountain in notable for housing a cave known as Qar al-Thawr (lit cave of the Bull), in where Muhammad and Abu Bakr hid from their persecuters, the Banu Quraish during the migration to Medina. This is the cave that the Hadith of Abu Bakr and Muhammad in the cave refers to.

The cave is still visited by a very small amount of the pillgrims who go to Hajj, the small amount due to its distance from Mecca.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Celebrating Makkah al-Mukarramah as a capital of Islamic culture for 2005
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