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Destroyed landmark in Medina
Jannat al-Baqi' in the 1910s, with the Bayt al-Ahzan located on the right-hand side of the photograph


Bayt al-Ahzan (Arabic: بَيْت ٱلْأَحْزَان, romanized: Bayt al-Aḥzān) literally means "House of the Sorrows", is a structure which has been destroyed in the Al-Baqi Cemetery in Medinah, the Hejaz. Bayt al-Ahzan is located at the south of ‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib; and likewise behind the court of four Shia Imams in Baqi', namely: Hasan ibn Ali, Zayn al-Abidin, Muhammad al-Baqir and Ja'far as-Sadiq.

History

Considering that Fatimah al-Zahra was so sorrowful of her father's passing away and used to cry a lot for him, then her husband Ali built a structure (Bayt al-Ahzan) for her to mourn her father there.

Bayt al-Ahzan is considered the third probable place --after Al-Masjid an-Nabawi and al-Baqi' cemetery-- to be the grave place of Fatimah's grave. This building was demolished after the (second) attack of Wahhabists to Hejaz and the occupation of Medina in 1926 (1344 A.H.).

Meaning

The word bayt (بَیْت) in Arabic means "home", and the word "Ahzan" is the plural form of Hozn (sorrow) which means sorrows; and this phrase (Bayt al-Ahzan) altogether means the home of sorrows.

See also

References

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