Salman Al Farsi Mosque

Salman Al Farsi Mosque in Medina marks the ground near Mount Sela where the city faced an approaching army of nearly ten thousand men in the fifth year after the Hijrah, with no walls and no time to build any. This guide follows Salman, a Persian companion who had passed through Zoroastrianism and Christian monasteries before finding Islam, and the unfamiliar wartime trick he proposed to a council that included Muhammad himself. It follows the whole community as they spent six relentless days digging alongside him, hauling earth from a ditch that ran for miles past this same black rock.