Bayda (land)

Bayda (Arabic:بيداء; Persian:بیدا) is the name of a desert between Mecca and Medina, that is without water/grass[1] and its distance to Masjid-u-Shajarah[2] is two kilometers—towards to the city of Mecca.[3]

According to Islamic narration(s),[4][5] Khasf al Bayda or swallowing (of the army of Sufyani) in the land of Bayda is among the signs of the reappearance of al-Mahdi.[6][7][8][9]

Name and meaning

The name of this locality was narrated at the "hadith of Khasf-e-Bayda" (swallowing in Bayda land) by such name. Both of Shia-Islam and Sunni-Islam sources have mentioned about the event of "swallowing in the territory of Bayda" as one of the signs of the reappearance of al-Mahdi; based on Islamic hadiths.[10]

Bayda means a desert without water and grass,[11] and as an expression it is the name of a vast desert that is located to the 9 kilometer to the southwest of Medina and after Dhu al-Halifa; it likewise has been divided in two southern and northern parts through the way of Medina to Jeddah and Mecca.[12]

Event

Regarding the (Khasf al) Bayda,[13][14][15][16] there is a hadith from the 5th Shia Imam, Muhammad bin 'Ali bin al-Husayn (Muhamad al-Baqir) that says: at Akhar-al-Zaman (EndTime), at the time when the army of Sufyani enters the territory of Bayda, a caller calls: Oh plain, annihilate that nation (of Sufyani army); subsequently the Earth swallows them, and all of them will be swallowed except 3 individuals.[17]

Prayer

Based on Feqhi sources: saying prayers is Makruh (i.e.: not haram but better not to do) in this desert (of Bayda) and the Divine torment will be come down at this locality.[18]

See also

References
  1. Where is the land of Bayda? rasekhoon.net
  2. Khasfe Bayda ahlolbait.com
  3. Shahroodi, Farhang-e Fegh, Vol. 2, P. 160-161
  4. The place of Khasf in Bayda porseman.com
  5. Where will occur the fourth sign of Dhuhur (reappearance of Imam Zaman (Mahdi)? fardanews.com
  6. Khasf-al-Bayda from Signs of the reappearance welayatnet.com
  7. Khasf-al-Bayda farsnews.ir
  8. Necessity of the separation of define signs of Duhur from non-definite signs tebyan.net
  9. Signs of the reappearance of Muhammad al-Mahdi hawzah.net
  10. San'ani, al-Mosanaf, Bita, Vol. 11
  11. Al-Ein, Vol. 8, P. 84; Bayd
  12. Tarikh Ma'alem al-Madina, P. 346
  13. Mohammad ibn Ibrahim (Na'mani), Alqeibah, Tehran, MaktabolSaduq, P. 257
  14. Khasf-al-Bayda ensani.ir
  15. Mohammad ibn Ali (Sadoogh), Kamalodin o TamamolNe'mah, Vol. 1, P. 331
  16. Khasf-e Bayda in Quran masaf.ir
  17. َAl-Gheibah (Na'mani). Maktebah-al-Sadough, P. 279
  18. Najafi, Jawaher al-Kalam, Vol. 8, P. 349
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