Al-Khaif Mosque

This guide to Al-Khaif Mosque in Mina, near Mecca, follows the tradition that seventy prophets, Moses among them, once prayed on this ground at the foot of a rocky hill above a streambed. It traces how the Prophet Muhammad prayed the pre-dawn Fajr here during his Farewell Pilgrimage in the year six hundred thirty-two, and how he arranged his companions around the mosque, the Meccan emigrants at the front and the Medinan helpers behind. Stand where the crowds still gather each Hajj season, and consider whose footsteps might be beneath yours.