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Places of the Prophet ﷺ and his Companions in Madinah, Makkah and Badr: what happened there, what is Sunna when you visit, and when to go.
One hadith frames every visit: “Do not set out on a journey except for three mosques”: al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, the Prophet's Mosque and al-Aqṣā Bukhārī 1189. Every other place on this page is a visit made while you are already there, for its history and its lessons.
Rough directions and distances from the centre, not to scale. Tap a dot.
At any grave: the greeting
Scholars The visitor greets and prays for the dead. Asking the dead for help, wiping graves or walls, and taking soil away are rejected by scholars of all four schools as having no basis.
Sources
Qur'an: Dr Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran (quran.com). Hadith: sunnah.com, checked 11 Nov 2026 unless marked otherwise. Directions and times are rough guides; opening hours and permits change, so confirm locally.
- Bukhārī 1189: travel only to three mosques. 1190: one prayer in the Prophet's Mosque. 1196: between the house and the pulpit a garden of Paradise.
- Bukhārī 1193: Qubāʾ every Saturday. Nasāʾī 699: prayer at Qubāʾ like an Umrah (ḥasan, Darussalam).
- Muslim 1398: the mosque founded on piety is the Prophet's Mosque.
- Bukhārī 40 and 403: the change of qiblah.
- Bukhārī 4083: Uḥud loves us. 4072: the killing of Ḥamzah.
- Muslim 974: the greeting at al-Baqīʿ.
- Bukhārī 3: the first revelation at Ḥirāʾ. 3653: the cave of Thawr.
- Bukhārī 3957: over 310 at Badr. Bukhārī 1785: ʿĀʾishah's Umrah from al-Tanʿīm. Muslim 1218: the Prophet's ﷺ standing at ʿArafah.
- Qur'an 2:144, 3:123, 3:152, 8:9, 9:40, 9:108, 33:9–10, 96:1–5.