Al-Baqi Cemetery has been the main cemetery for the people of Madinah since the time of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and it is one of the nearest historical sites to the Prophet's Mosque. Al-Baqi Cemetery includes the remains of thousands of the people of Madinah and those who died in the city over the centuries. Among them are the Mothers of the Believers, the wives of the Prophet, except Khadijah and Maymunah.
Additional adjacent lands were incorporated into Baqi al-Gharqad, and a new tall marble-covered wall was built around it. Its current area reaches 180 thousand m.
Al-Baqi was a cemetery before Islam, as the people of Yathrib used to bury their dead in it. It is narrated that ten thousand companions were buried in it, including Uthman bin Affan (Dhu al-Nurayn), the third of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, the daughter of the Prophet, Fatima al-Zahra, his son Ibrahim, his uncle Abbas, his aunt Safiya, and his grandson al-Hassan bin Ali, Ali bin al-Hussein, Muhammad al-Baqir, and Jaafar al-Sadiq.
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