The Prophet’s House and the Graves of Muhammad, Abu Bakr and Umar

This is the dwelling of the best of mankind, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when he lived here with Aisha.

It had two entrances, one here, and inside, from the inner part, basically, of the mosque, there was an entrance here.

This was a courtyard, and this right here was the house itself where they lived with Aisha. Then, that is after the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam passed away, look, you see they built a partition here, and the prophet's grave was inside,

meaning Aisha lived right here, basically. Now look at the next stage.

Her father, Abu Bakr, passes away. Look, they re-- they make this partition, and inside you see there are two graves, meaning Aisha is still living right here.

And now look, the third stage is when Umar ibn al-Khattab passed away, meaning Aisha says he wasn't a mahram to me. So you see, here are these three graves.

And basically, this courtyard, which originally had an earthen floor, was converted into a house. And here they built a wall and left a small window so that the Tabieen, meaning, could come and give salam, basically.

But when the number of visits increased, they closed this window and completely blocked off this door. In other words, so no one could enter here.

And after Aisha passed away, once Aisha was buried in the Al-Baqi cemetery, during the reign of one of the Muslim rulers, they built this really thick-- You see, there are three graves there, and this is a really, really thick wall,

basically. It has no windows or doors whatsoever.

And now look, so that this wall wouldn't, roughly speaking, look like the Kaaba, so people wouldn't worship it, they enclosed it with yet another wall.

You see, it's pentagonal, meaning it's not like the Kaaba, basically. That's one.

Second, so that inside there'd be no way to pray in this direction, and they covered it with this kind of material on the inside.

And nowadays, we see this kind of picture, basically.

Men usually walk by here giving salam. Some people think that buried here are the Prophet, Abu Bakr, and Umar.

Just like that, three doors. Actually, no. I mean, these are just three doors.

And inside we see this view, basically. You see, the first grave is the prophet's grave, the second is Abu Bakr's, and the third is Umar's. And that's what we see today.

So those who say that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is buried inside the mosque, actually, originally, the prophet's house was outside the mosque, meaning the mosque was right here. You see? And this was outside.

Therefore, so there'd be no possibility of worshiping him, they walled it off.

One, two, three walls, basically, right here, you see.

What a beautiful thing.