Jannat al-Mu'alla

Jannat al-Mu'alla (Arabic: جَنَّة ٱلْمُعَلَّاة, romanized: Jannah al-Muʿallāh, lit. 'The Most Exalted Paradise'), also known as the "Cemetery of Ma'la"^[1] (Arabic: مَقْبَرَة ٱلْمَعْلَاة Maqbarah al-Maʿlāh) and Al-Ḥajūn (Arabic: ٱلْحَجُوْن), is a cemetery to the north of Al-Masjid Al-Haram, and near the Mosque of the Jinn in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. It is the place where the Islamic prophet Muhammad's wife, grandfather, and other ancestors are buried.

Jannat al-Mu'allah
Jannat al-Mu'alla cemetery
Details
Location	Makkah, Hijaz
Country	Saudi Arabia
Coordinates	21°26′13″N 39°49′45″E
Type	Islamic
No. of graves	Relatives of Muhammad

History

Jannat al-Mu'allah before 1925, during the Ottoman period

Many of Muhammad's relatives were buried in this cemetery before his Hijrah in 622.^{[citation needed]} Many domes and structures have been built or rebuilt over known graves over the years.^[2] Tombs in this cemetery were demolished in 1925, the same year that the Jannat al-Baqi' cemetery in Medina was demolished by the Saudi King, Ibn Saud. According to Wahabi tradition of Sunni Islam, shrines are forbidden to be built over a grave so as to not take any saint or dead person for worship. This happened despite protests by the international Shia community.^[3] Some Shiites continue to mourn the day the House of Saud demolished shrines in Al-Baqi, which has been named Yaum-e Gham or "Day of Sorrow", and protest the Saudi government's demolition of these shrines.

Notable interments

Khadija's tomb at Jannat al-Mu'alla cemetery, before its destruction in 1925

Historical figures buried here include:

Name	Notes
Companions of Muhammad
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib	Uncle of Muhammad; father of Ali and Chief of Banu Hashim
Abd Manaf	Great-great-grandfather of Muhammad and Ali
Abd al-Muttalib	Grandfather of Muhammad and Ali
Khadijah	The wife of Muhammad and mother of Zainab, Fatimah, Ruqayya and Umm Kulthum of Banu Asad (tribe)
Qasim ibn Muhammad	the first son of Muhammad and Khadijah
Asma bint Abu Bakr	A companion of Muhammad and mother of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr
Abdullah ibn Zubair	A companion of Muhammad and a nephew of Aisha
Notable Burials of Scholars and Mashaikh
al-Mansur	Second Abbasid Caliph and the founder of Baghdad
Rahmatullah Kairanwi	19th-century Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author of Izhar ul-Haqq[4]
Imdadullah Muhajir Makki	Another 19th-century Indian Muslim scholar[5]
Abu Turab al-Zahiri	20th-century Muslim cleric
Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki	20th-century Sunni Muslim cleric
Mulla Ali Qari Herawi	Sunni scholar of Tafseer Quran, Fiqh, Theology, Arabic Language
Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad	Sunni scholar of Islam prominent in Yemen, Africa, and Saudi Arabia
Sheikh Ismail Mahamud Cigaal	Sunni Scholar of Islam prominent in Somalia and East Africa

See also

• Jannat al-Baqi'
• Bab Saghir
• Holiest sites in Sunni Islam
• Holiest sites in Shia Islam