Les Etats d'Asie-Pacifique préparent leur contribution à la Conférence mondiale de 2026 au Maroc contre le travail des enfants    Le Cameroun parie sur les services pour soutenir sa croissance    Les exportations turques de l'acier vers le Maroc progressent de 137,7 % en huit mois    Le groupe chinois Goldwind, à travers sa filiale marocaine, signe avec un accord de fourniture d'éoliennes avec EEM, passée sous l'égide de l'émirati AMEA Power    Denrées alimentaires : le Maroc parmi les principaux clients de l'Egypte    Enseignement supérieur : les Marocains, première communauté étudiante étrangère en France    Commerce : l'Irlande publie un guide "Doing Business in Morocco"    Malawi. Aux urnes citoyens !    La périlleuse banalisation de l'horreur    Sommet arabo-islamique d'urgence. Soutien unanime au Comité Al-Qods, présidé par Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI, et à l'Agence Bayt Mal Al-Qods Acharif    Doha. Arrivée de SAR le Prince Moulay Rachid pour représenter SM le Roi au sommet arabo-islamique d'urgence    Mondiaux d'athlétisme : le Kenya postule    Le Maroc progresse de neuf rangs dans l'Indice mondial de l'innovation 2025 et atteint son meilleur classement historique    Le Maroc perd 60 000 hectares de couvert arboré entre 2001 et 2024 selon Global Forest Watch    Edito. Préserver l'authenticité, mais encore    « Casa Guira » : la nouvelle comédie signée RedOne et Omar Lotfi dès le 17 septembre dans les salles marocaines    Indice mondial de l'innovation 2025: Le Maroc réalise un bond de 9 places    Le gouvernement examine le 18 septembre la loi sur les établissements de crédit et une convention fiscale avec le Burundi    Le temps qu'il fera ce mardi 16 septembre 2025    Triple E Awards : l'UEMF récompensée pour sa Chaire de l'Alliance des civilisations    Algérie : La nomination de Sifi Ghrieb, pari de Tebboune face à l'instabilité    Des ONG dénoncent le recrutement forcé de réfugiés sahraouis comme mercenaires dans les camps de Tindouf    Hausse record du trafic à l'aéroport de Pékin Daxing grâce à l'exemption de visa.    Coupe du Monde Féminine de Futsal – Philippines 2025 : Les Lionnes dans le groupe A    Botola Pro D1 : Une première journée riche en rebondissements et promesses    Botola D1 : Pluie de cartons rouges à Tanger en ouverture de la J2    S.M. le Roi adresse une Lettre au Conseil des Oulémas pour le 15e siècle de la naissance du Prophète    Pékin et Washington « très proches » d'un accord à Madrid concernant TikTok    Donald Trump au Royaume-Uni pour cimenter la relation spéciale avec Londres    Le Maroc renforce sa présence en Centrafrique : un message de gratitude du président Touadéra au roi Mohammed VI    Riyad : Réélection de Fouzi Lekjaa au Conseil exécutif de l'UAFA    Mondiaux d'athlétisme Tokyo-2025 (3000 m steeple) : Soufiane El Bakkali remporte la médaille d'argent    Interview avec RedOne : « Le Maroc était le choix naturel pour me lancer dans le cinéma »    Vernissage du peintre Barbara Piekarska Abou-Hilal à El Jadida : Une célébration picturale entre mémoire et territoire !    OM : Nayef Aguerd forfait face au Real Madrid en LdC    Morocco joins emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha to address Israeli attack on Qatar    Ferhat Mehenni écrit sur le colonialisme algérien en Kabylie    Al Hoceïma, chef-lieu d'une culture qui se fait «mémoire des diasporas»    Les températures attendues ce lundi 15 septembre 2025    Le temps qu'il fera ce lundi 15 septembre 2025    Moulay Rachid à Doha pour représenter le Roi au sommet arabo-islamique d'urgence    Dans «Mohammed V, dernier sultan et premier roi du Maroc», l'historien Benjamin Badier rappelle à la conscience collective une figure illustre et plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît    Taghazout Bay 2025 : La Coupe d'Afrique de Triathlon, dimanche 21 septembre    Nadia Fettah : Le Maroc, sous la conduite du Roi, est engagé en faveur de la coopération Sud-Sud    Tanger : la police arrête un jeune homme pour conduite dangereuse et tentative de corruption    MAGAZINE : Mustapha Bakbou, le blues du guembri    La cuisine marocaine étincelle de mille saveurs au Village international de la gastronomie à Paris    Cinéma : le 7e art marocain brille sur les canaux vénitiens    







Merci d'avoir signalé!
Cette image sera automatiquement bloquée après qu'elle soit signalée par plusieurs personnes.



History : When two men disguised as Moroccan pilgrims tried to steal the Prophet's tomb
Publié dans Yabiladi le 10 - 07 - 2019

Historical accounts suggest that in 557 A.H, two men disguised as Moroccan pilgrims, planned to steal to the Prophet's grave in Madina. The story is linked to an Egyptian sultan and a dream he saw.
The history of Islam is marked by interesting, odd and unusual stories, which emerged after the death of Prophet Muhammad. When the Messenger of God passed away, In June 632, his companions decided to make of his wife's house Aisha his last resting place.
Years later, during the reign of the Umayyad Caliphate (661–750), it was decided to expand the Al-Masjid an-Nabawi mosque in Madina to include the Prophet's tomb. The latter had seen a couple of attempts that jeopardized the Messenger's body.
Several historical accounts suggest that there were five attempts to steal the body of the prophet. One of these endeavors was reportedly led by two Moroccans, or at least two men who pretended they were from the North African Kingdom.
An attempt to steal the Prophet's tomb
The story indicates that the attempt to steal the Prophet's body took place 532 years after his death. It was first narrated by Islamic scholar Nur al-Din Ali bin Ahmad al-Samhudi. In his book «Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa», a four-volume book that gathered everything connected to the city of Madina, al-Samhudi referred to the story that involved an Egyptian ruler, two men disguised as Moroccans, and a dream that was about to come true.
The Prophet's tomb in Madina. / Ph. DR
Quoted by several other authors and historians, al-Samhudi's book recalls that in the year of 557 A.H., two Christian men from Andalusia, traveled to Madina. According to the Islamic scholar, the plot carried by the two men was thoroughly studied. They pretended that they were Muslims, rented a house near the mosque that hosted the Prophet's tomb and made sure to remain discreet and close-lipped.
In their rented house, the two «Moroccan» men dug a tunnel that was leading to the Prophet's tomb, in an attempt to retrieve his body and flee with it. Their plan was in action and the two men succeeded in not attracting unwanted attention.
al-Samhudi wrote in his book, that after digging the night, the two men used to carry the mud in bags and head to Jannat al-Baqi, the first Islamic cemetery of Madina, and discreetly throw it around graves.
The dream of sultan Nur ad-Din Zengi
The plot of the two men disguised as Moroccans was never achieved, according to al-Samhudi. The latter said that while the two «Christian men» were executing part of their plan in Madina, Egypt ruler Sultan Nur ad-Din Zengi had a weird dream, in which he was «urged by prophet Muhammad» to protect him from «two reddish men».
The sultan had the same dream three times. «He lost his sleep and described his dreams to his advisor, Jamalud-din al-Musali. The advisor said to him, 'Why are you sitting here? You should go to Madina immediately», al-Samhudi wrote.
Urged by his advisor to leave Egypt for Madina, Zengi arrived in the city in sixteen days with 20 men. In Madina, he ordered his advisor to meet all the men staying at the city and kept looking at their faces in an attempt to recognize the men he saw in his dreams.
«Sultan enquired, 'Have all the residents visited me?' The answer from the residents was, 'Yes, indeed.' Sultan said, 'Are you really sure?' People said, 'There are two pious Moroccans», wrote Radio Islam, which quotes al-Samhudi.
The Egyptian sultan ordered his advisor to bring the two «Moroccan pilgrims». At the moment he saw them, Zengi knew that they were the «men he saw in his dreams». The sultan asked to visit their place, where he found a whole in the floor, covered by a rug. At that moment he realized that he, indeed, stumbled upon the men that the «prophet referred» to in his dream.
The two men were executed after their plan was discovered, said al-Samhudi, adding that Sultan Zengi ordered «to dig a deep trench around the Sacred Chamber (…) and filled this trench with molten lead» to protect the Prophet's tomb from future attempts.
The story of the sultan of Egypt and his miraculous dream was of doubtful origin. This account was poorly backed, especially as Sultan Zengi did not visit Madina during the same year, when the attempt would have taken place.


Cliquez ici pour lire l'article depuis sa source.