Al Muallaa Cemetery

Al Muallaa Cemetery in Mecca holds the grave of Khadijah, the Prophet Muhammad's first wife and, by tradition, the first person to believe his message, alongside other members of his family. This guide follows her story from steadying him after his first revelation to her death in Mecca in 619, the year Muhammad would later call the Year of Sorrow, and traces what became of the elaborate domed tombs an Ottoman traveler once counted on this hillside. It's a quiet, unmarked corner of the city that holds significance far beyond its plain stones.