Al Baqi Cemetery

This guide to Al Baqi Cemetery in Medina opens in 622, the year the Prophet Muhammad reached the city, when a companion named As'ad ibn Zurarah became the first person buried in what was then thorny scrubland beside the young community's mosque. It walks the ground naming who else lies here, including the Prophet's infant son, several of his wives, and the third caliph Uthman, murdered in his own home. Look for Sa'd ibn Mu'adh among them too, the tribal chief wounded defending Medina in the Battle of the Trench.