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The structure containing the Maqām. The Maqām Ibrāhīm (Arabic: مَقَام إِبْرَاهِيْم, lit. 'Station of Abraham') [1] [2] is a small square stone [3] associated with Ibrahim (), Ismail and their building of the Kaaba in what is now the Great Mosque of Mecca in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia.
Ibrahim's Sacrifice; Timurid Anthology, 1410–1411 The classical Quranic exegete and historian Tabari offered two versions, whom Abraham was ordered to sacrifice. According to the first strand, Abraham wished for a righteous son, whereupon an angel appeared to him informing him, that he will get a righteous son, but when he was born and ...
The Station of Ibrahim (Maqam Ibrahim) is a glass and metal enclosure with what is said to be an imprint of Ibrahim's feet. Ibrahim is said to have stood on this stone during the construction of the upper parts of the Kaaba, raising Ismail on his shoulders for the uppermost parts. [92] The corner of the Black Stone.
To the southeast of Bani Na'im is a shrine dedicated to Lot, known as Maqam an-Nabi Yaqin (Arabic: مقام النبي يقين, lit. 'Shrine of the Truthful Prophet'). Local legend claims Lot prayed at the site and that the imprints of his feet are still visible in a rock there. [37]
Nearby the Kaaba was located the betyl which was later called Maqam Ibrahim; a place called al-Ḥigr which Aziz al-Azmeh takes to be reserved for consecrated animals, basing his argument on a Sabaean inscription mentioning a place called mḥgr which was reserved for animals; and the Well of Zamzam.
The children said their prayers and went to sleep. In the evening, Muhammad woke up and started crying. Ibrahim asked him why he was crying. Muhammad said "I saw our father in a dream. He was calling out for us". Ibrahim said, "Brother, be patient. I also saw our father in a dream beckoning us to him". They both started weeping.
Al-Khidr Festival (in Arabic: زيارة سيدنا النبي الخضر) is a festival of the Druze community in Israel celebrated on 25 January. It includes a pilgrimage (زيارة) by community members to the Maqam Al-Khidr in the Kfar Yassif near Acre .
The most popular type of maqam is a single chamber square building topped with a dome, in the middle of which there is a stone cenotaph, [12] though the revered figures themselves were buried below ground level. In the south wall of the maqam, there is usually a small mihrab facing Mecca, decorated with inscriptions and floral ornament. The ...