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Al-Hazwarah was a market of Makkah in the time before Islam, on the south-western side of the Ka'bah, which was later taken into Masjid al-Haram. A Companion,…
Al-Hazwarah was a market of Makkah in the time before Islam, on the south-western side of the Ka'bah, which was later taken into Masjid al-Haram. A Companion, Abdullah ibn Adi ibn al-Hamra', saw the Prophet ﷺ standing at al-Hazwarah and heard him say, "By Allah! You are the best of Allah's earth, and the most beloved of Allah's earth to Allah, and if it were not that I was expelled from you I would not have left." The gate built on this side was called Bab al-Hazwarah and Bab al-Wada', and beside it rose one of the minarets of the old mosque, first built by the caliph al-Mahdi and rebuilt in 772 AH after it fell. The gate and its minaret were removed when Masjid al-Haram was enlarged in the twentieth century. Their site lies inside the present mosque, about 90 to 120 metres south-west of the Ka'bah.