Shuhada Uhud Cemetery

This guide to Shuhada Uhud Cemetery in Medina returns to an afternoon in March, 625, at the foot of Mount Uhud, when fifty archers under Abdullah ibn Jubair were ordered to hold one hill no matter what they saw happening below. It follows the moment the battle looked already won, and the decision by most of those archers to leave the ridge for the spoils scattered across the field. Walk the rows of graves in front of you while you listen, on the ground where that afternoon's choice played out.