Cave of Bani Haram

The Cave of Bani Haram in Medina sits on Mount Sila above the trench line dug during the Battle of the Trench, and this guide follows Muhammad's habit of slipping away from the siege to pray inside it. It centers on the day his companion Muadh ibn Jabal went looking for him and found him bent in prostration for so long that he feared the worst. It also traces Jabir ibn Abdullah, who made his home on the same ground, and the small spring said to have been dug beside the cave for the fighters camped nearby.