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Baab-Sagheer

Bāb Saghīr Cemeteries

Bāb Saghīr (Arabic: باب صغير‎), also called "Goristan-e-Ghariban", is a street in Damascus, Syria, with cemeteries on either side of the road.

Cemetery[]

The cemeteries include:

  • Tomb of Umm Kulthum, daughter of Ali and Fatimah
  • Tomb of Bilal al-Habashi, the Mu'adh-dhin of Muhammad
  • Tomb of Sakina, daughter of the Imam, Husayn ibn Ali (not the same as the daughter that is buried in Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque)
  • Tomb of Fidha, the maid of Fatima (Muhammad's daughter)
  • Tomb of Abdullah, son of the Fourth Imām, Ali Zaynul 'Aabideen
  • Tomb of Maymuunah, daughter of the Second Imām, Hasan al-Mujtaba
  • Tomb of Asma, wife of Ja'far at-Tayyaar
  • Tomb of Hameedah, daughter of Muslim ibn Aqeel
  • Tomb of Kamaid bin Aswad al-Kindi, companion of Ali
  • Tomb of Obay ibn Ka'b, husband of Halima, nursing mother of Muhammad
  • Tomb of Abdullah bin Umm Maktoum, Mu'adh-dhin

The following tombs are also found within this cemetery, however these are fake graves created for the purpose of ziyarah (the real graves of these figures are found in Jannatul Baqee', Madinah, Saudi Arabia):

As well within this cemetery:

  • Maqam Ra's Shuhada, the former burial place of the heads of the Martyrs of Karbala (also called "ganj-e-sarha-e-shuhada-e-Karbala")
  • The well from which the Fourth Shī`a Imām, Ali Zaynul 'Aabideen used to perform wudhu

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Coordinates: 33°30′22.5″N 36°18′23.5″E / 33.50625°N 36.306528°E / 33.50625; 36.306528


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