
The blessed valley of which the Prophet ﷺ said: "A messenger from my Lord came to me tonight and said: pray in this blessed valley."
📷 Photo: Masry, Abdullah H., Steven C. Caton, Ahmad H. Sharafaddin, and Mahmud Al-Safti, eds. 1978. ATLAL : The Journal of Saudi / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
17-01-1448 مُحَرَّم 1448هـ · 02-07-2026
Umm al-Qura method · {Asia/Riyadh}
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﴿وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ صَبَرُوا حَتَّىٰ تَخْرُجَ إِلَيْهِمْ لَكَانَ خَيْرًا لَّهُمْ﴾«أَتَانِي اللَّيْلَةَ آتٍ مِنْ رَبِّي فَقَالَ: صَلِّ فِي هَذَا الْوَادِي الْمُبَارَكِ.»Wadi al-ʿAqiq is the blessed valley in which Allah commanded the Prophet ﷺ to pray. ʿUmar ﭬ said: I heard the Prophet ﷺ say this in Wadi al-ʿAqiq.
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