Masjid Omar Bin Al-Khattab

This guide to Masjid Omar Bin Al-Khattab in Medina returns to the frantic six days in 627 when Medina's defenders, on advice from the Persian convert Salman, dug a trench that Arabia had never used in warfare before. It follows Umar ibn Al-Khattab, blunt and outspoken among the Prophet's companions, as he stood watch along this stretch during a twenty-night siege by a coalition said to number ten thousand. Listen for the tension of a broken truce reported mid-siege, near the plain stone room later raised where he kept guard.