MASJID
SHAIKHAIN
The name of this Masjid is "
Masjid SHAIKHAIN " which means the Masjid of "THAT TWOS".
if
we travel towards UHAD mount in madina , we may see this
masjid. it is an important spot of muslim history. On the
eve of UHAD BATTLE, prophet Muhammad sallallaho allihi
wasalam stopped here for a night. Two important event took
place on that occasion. One of them was shocking where as
other one was very encouraging.
There
was a great set back to the Muslims when in the morning
Abdullah bin Ubai, the leader of the hypocrites, broke
away with his three hundred followers pretending that
since his opinion of fighting inside Madinah was not
accepted, he and his men would not take part in the
battle. This reduced the Muslim army from around one
thousand to a only seven hundred to face a Quraysh army of
three thousand.
After
this targic incident another incident of ecouragement and
moral boasting also occured at the same spot and , in fact
the name of this masjid is nominated to this particular
event . The name of this masjid is associated with an
historic event attached with TWO tender aged boys. please
read the event below:

An other view of
Msjid shaikhain
During this period
all the Muslim inhabitants of Madinah were called
here including the women and elderly. The Prophet
(s.a.w.) planned the battle of UHAD , inspected the
troops and selected those to participate. Several
tender-aged boys had come out with the army with the
zeal to fight for Islam but the Prophet (s.a.w.)
ordered them back.
Among the boys was Rafe (r.a.). His
father Khudaij (r.a.) said to the Prophet (s.a.w.),
“O Prophet of Allah! My son Rafe’ is a very good
archer.” Rafe’ too, stood on his toes to show
himself taller than he actually was. The Prophet
(s.a.w.) permitted him to stay on. Samrah-bin-Jundub
(r.a.) learnt about this, he complained to his
step-father Murrah-bin-Sanan (r.a.) saying,“The
Prophet (s.a.w.) has permitted Rafe’ and ejected me,
while I am sure to beat him in a wrestling contest
and, therefore, I was more deserving of the
Prophet’s favour.” This was reported to the Prophet
(s.a.w.), who allowed Samrah to prove his claim by
wrestling with Rafe’. Samrah did actually beat Rafe’
in the bout and he too was permitted to stay in the
army. A few more boys made similar efforts to stay
on, and some of them did succeed.
This masjid ia
famous for the above WRESTLING event and exists even
today in Madina Munawwarah on the way of UHAD MOUNT.

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