Editing Muhammad (section)

==Tomb==
{{wide image|Madina Haram at evening.jpg|800px|The [[Prophet's Mosque]] in Medina, with the [[Green Dome]] built over Muhammad's tomb in the center|left}}
Muhammad was buried where he died in Aisha's house.{{sfn|Buhl|Welch|1993}}<ref>Leila Ahmed 1986, 665–691 (686)</ref>{{sfn|Peters|2003|p=90}} During the reign of the Umayyad caliph [[al-Walid I]], the [[Prophet's Mosque]] was expanded to include the site of Muhammad's tomb.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ariffin |first=Syed Ahmad Iskandar Syed |title=Architectural Conservation in Islam: Case Study of the Prophet's Mosque |publisher=Penerbit UTM |year=2005 |isbn=978-983-52-0373-2 |page=88}}</ref> The [[Green Dome]] above the tomb was built by the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk]] sultan [[Al Mansur Qalawun]] in the 13th century, although the green color was added in the 16th century, under the reign of [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] sultan [[Suleiman the Magnificent]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 May 2005 |title=Prophet's Mosque |url=http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=10061 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323131933/http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.jsp?site_id=10061 |archive-date=23 March 2012 |access-date=26 January 2012 |publisher=Archnet.org}}</ref> Among tombs adjacent to that of Muhammad are those of his companions ({{tlit|ar|[[Sahabah]]}}), the first two Muslim caliphs [[Abu Bakr]] and [[Umar]], and an empty one that [[Jesus in Islam#Second Coming|Muslims believe awaits Jesus]].{{sfn|Peters|2003|p=90}}<ref>"Isa", ''Encyclopaedia of Islam''.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Al-Haqqani |first1=Shaykh Adil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzpV0QnOVxsC&pg=PA65 |title=The Path to Spiritual Excellence |last2=Kabbani |first2=Shaykh Hisham |author-link2=Hisham Kabbani |publisher=ISCA |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-930409-18-7}}</ref>

When [[Saud bin Abdul-Aziz bin Muhammad bin Saud|Saud bin Abdul-Aziz]] took Medina in 1805, Muhammad's tomb was stripped of its gold and jewel ornamentation. Adherents to [[Wahhabism]], Saud's followers, destroyed nearly every tomb dome in Medina in order to prevent their veneration,<ref name="Weston2008">{{Cite book |last=Weston |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Weston (journalist) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEEFsVYLko4C&pg=PA102 |title=Prophets and princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the present |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-470-18257-4 |pages=102–103}}</ref> and the one of Muhammad is reported to have narrowly escaped.<ref name="Behrens-AbouseifVernoit2006">{{Cite book |last1=Behrens-Abouseif |first1=Doris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4q58Af5zAoC&pg=PA22 |title=Islamic art in the 19th century: tradition, innovation, and eclecticism |last2=Vernoit |first2=Stephen |publisher=Brill |year=2006 |isbn=978-90-04-14442-2 |page=22}}</ref> Similar events took place in 1925, when the [[Ikhwan|Saudi militias]] retook—and this time managed to keep—the city.{{sfn|Weston|2008|p=136}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cornell |first=Vincent J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8dNKFLJVvNkC&pg=PA84 |title=Voices of Islam: Voices of the spirit |publisher=Greenwood |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-275-98734-3 |page=84}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ernst |first=Carl W. |author-link=Carl W. Ernst |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DOWn22EkJsQC&pg=PA1173 |title=Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the contemporary world |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8078-5577-5 |pages=173–174}}</ref> In the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, burial is to take place in unmarked graves.<ref name="Behrens-AbouseifVernoit2006" /> Although the practice is frowned upon by the Saudis, many pilgrims continue to practice a {{tlit|ar|[[ziyarat]]}}—a ritual visit—to the tomb.{{sfn|Bennett|1998|pp=182–183}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Clark |first=Malcolm |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPXu561ZpvgC&pg=PT165 |title=Islam For Dummies |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-118-05396-6 |page=165}}</ref>