Editing Medina (section)

===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>