📍 Sections & Places
The Place of Taḥannuth
A feature within · Cave of Hira
Significance
Before prophethood, the Prophet ﷺ would seclude himself in the cave of Ḥirāʾ in worship — what the Arabs called "taḥannuth" — for numbered nights, taking provisions, then returning to Khadīja for more, until the Truth suddenly came upon him. This retreat for reflection was a divine preparation for the Revelation.
The recommended practice
It is not from the Sunna to strain oneself climbing up to worship here — the Companions and Rightly-Guided Caliphs did not do so after the prophethood.