MASJID E AYESHA (Masjid at-Tan’eem) : Its importance.

MASJID E AYESHA (Masjid at-Tan’eem) : Its importance.

Masjid Aisha, also known as Masjid at-Tan’eem marks the place where Ummul-Mu’mineen Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) went to enter into Ihram for Umrah when the Prophet (PBUH) told her to do so during the farewell Hajj.

The masjid lies 5 miles (7.5 km) south from Makkah on the road to Madinah and is the closest of all the boundary points.

It is narrated on the authority of `Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) stopped at Al-Muhassab. He called `Abdul-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr and said to him,

"Take your sister out of the Haram (the Sacred Mosque) and let her enter ihram for ‘Umrah, then let her circumambulate the Ka`bah, and I will wait for you both here."

She said: "So we went out and I entered Ihram, then I circumambulated the Ka`bah, and did Sa`yi between Safa and Al-Marawah. Then we came to the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) at his camp in the middle of the night, and he said,

‘Have you finished?’
I said, ‘Yes.’

He gave his Sahabah (Companions of the Prophet) permission to move on, and he went out to the Ka`bah and circumambulated it before Fajr (Dawn) Prayer, then he left for Al-Madinah."

Al-Bukhari, Sahih, Book on Hajj, no. 1643; Muslim, Sahih, Book on Hajj, no. 1211; Al-Tirmidhy, Sunan, Book on Hajj, no. 934; Al-Nasa'y, Sunan, Book on Hajj rituals, no. 2763; Abu Dawud, Sunan, Book on rituals, no. 1778; Ibn Majah, Sunan, Book on rituals, no. 3000; Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Musnad, vol. 6, p. 273; Malik, Al-Muwatta', Book on Hajj, no. 940; and Al-Darimy, Sunan, Book on rituals, no. 1904.

According to another narration, she said: On the night when the pilgrims left Mina and went to al-Mahsab (laylat al-hasbah),
I said: "O Messenger of Allah, the people are going back having done Hajj and `Umrah, and am I to go back having done only Hajj?"

He told `Abdul-Rahman to seat me behind him on his camel, then she mentioned her `Umrah from Al-Tan`im.'" Sahih Muslim 1211 According to another report from her: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to her on the day of departure: “The tawaaf you did is sufficient for Hajj and ‘Umrah” but she insisted, so he sent her with ‘Abdul-Rahman to Al-Tan`im, and she did ‘Umrah after Hajj.
(Sahih Muslim 1211)