Editing Medina (section)

==Names==
===Yathrib===
Before the advent of Islam, the city was known as Yathrib ({{langx|ar|يَثْرِب|translit=Yaṯrib}}; {{IPA|ar|ˈjaθrɪb|pron}}). The word ''Yathrib'' appears in an inscription found in Harran, belonging to the Babylonian king [[Nabonidus]] (6th century BCE)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=C. J. Gadd |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3642415 |title=The Harran Inscriptions of Nabonidus |journal=Anatolian Studies |year=1958 |volume=8 |page=59 |doi=10.2307/3642415 |jstor=3642415 |s2cid=162791503 |access-date=29 June 2021 |archive-date=21 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421062943/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3642415?read-now=1&refreqid=excelsior%3Acf24ec5d1543efefc4bfd7e117098145&seq=41#page_scan_tab_contents |url-status=live}}</ref> and is well attested in several texts in the subsequent centuries.<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=A Pre-Islamic Nabataean Inscription Mentioning The Place Yathrib |url=https://www.islamic-awareness.org/history/islam/inscriptions/yathrib1.html |url-status=live |website=Islamic Awareness |access-date=29 June 2021 |archive-date=5 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405103321/https://www.islamic-awareness.org/history/islam/inscriptions/yathrib1.html}}</ref> The name has also been recorded in [[Āyah]] (verse) 13 of [[Surah]] (chapter) [[al-Ahzab|33]] of the [[Quran|Qur'an]].{{qref|33|13|b=y|s=y}} and is thus known to have been the name of the city up to the [[Battle of the Trench]]. According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad later forbade calling the city by this name.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/957317429 |title=<>. |date=2003 |publisher=Bayt al-Afkar al-Dawliyah |others=Ibn Ḥanbal, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, 828–903. |isbn=9957-21-049-1 |location='Amman |oclc=957317429 |access-date=24 June 2020 |archive-date=25 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625073316/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/957317429 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Taybah and Tabah===
[[File:An inscription mentioning prophet's grave in Madinah.jpg|thumb|8th century rock inscription discovered in Medina, refers to the city as 'Taybah']]
Sometime after the battle, Muhammad renamed the city ''Taybah'' (the Kind or the Good) ({{IPA|ar|ˈtˤajba}}; {{lang|ar|طَيْبَة}})<ref>{{Cite book |last=Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Qushayrī, approximately 821–875. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1134530211 |title=Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim : with the full commentary by Imam al-Nawawi |others=Nawawī, ‡d 1233–1277., Salahi, Adil |date=26 November 2019 |isbn=978-0-86037-786-3 |location=London |oclc=1134530211 |access-date=24 June 2020 |archive-date=27 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627001125/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1134530211 |url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Tabah'' ({{langx|ar|طَابَة}})<ref name="Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372–1449">{{Cite book |last1=Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372-1449. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/981125883 |title=Fatḥ al-Bārī : victory of the Creator |last2=ابن حجر العسقلاني، أحمد بن علي،, 1372–1449. |others=Williams, Khalid, Waley, M. I. |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-909460-11-9 |location=[U.K.] |oclc=981125883 |access-date=24 June 2020 |archive-date=27 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627012043/https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/981125883 |url-status=live}}</ref> which is of similar meaning. This name is also used to refer to the city in the popular folk song, "''Ya Taybah!''" (O Taybah!). The two names are combined in another name the city is known by, ''Taybat at-Tabah'' (the Kindest of the Kind).

===Madinah===
The city has also simply been called Al-Madinah (i.e. 'The City') in some ''ahadith''<ref name="Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1372–1449"/>''.'' The names ''{{transliteration|ar|ALA|al-Madīnah an-Nabawiyyah}}'' ({{lang|ar|ٱلْمَدِيْنَة ٱلنَّبَوِيَّة}}) and ''Madīnat un-Nabī'' (both meaning "City of the Prophet" or "The Prophet's City") and ''al-Madīnat ul-Munawwarah'' ("The Enlightened City") are all derivatives of this word. This is also the most commonly accepted modern name of the city, used in official documents and road signage, along with Madinah.