Al-'Ihn Well: A Name on the List of Seven

Al-'Ihn Well, also written al-Ehn, appears on the traditional list of the seven wells of Madinah associated with the Prophet ﷺ.

It is the one on that list we could tell you least about, and this page says so rather than making up the difference.

What we could verify

• Al-'Ihn appears in the Arabic sources on Madinah's historic wells, in the list of seven: Aris, Ghars, Rumah, Bir Ha', Buda'ah, al-Bassah and al-'Ihn.

What we could not verify

• A specific authentic narration naming this well.
• Its location, then or now.
• Whether anything of it survives.
• Its dimensions or condition.
• The meaning behind the name.

Five unknowns is a lot for one page. We have written it down rather than working around it, because you deserve to know which of the seven have something behind them and which are a name on a list.

The seven, and where they stand

How these lists actually work

Worth understanding, because it applies well beyond this one well.

Sets of seven are common in Islamic heritage writing: seven mosques, seven wells. The number is memorable and it makes a list easy to teach.

What it does not do is guarantee that every entry has the same evidence behind it. Groupings of this kind were assembled by later writers from a mix of strong narrations, local knowledge and older lists. Some entries carry a hadith in Bukhari. Others carry a name.

You saw the same pattern with the Seven Mosques, where there are actually five and the name is modern.

The habit worth building is simple: when you hear a set of seven, ask what the evidence is for the one you are standing in front of, not for the set.

Is visiting part of Hajj or Umrah?

No. Not a rite of either. There is also nothing we can direct you to.

Honest verdict

Nothing to visit and nothing to plan around.

If wells interest you, Bir Rumah and Bir Ghars are the two that reward a drive. Both are real, both are accessible, and both have something documented behind them.

Related

• Bir Rumah — the strongest of the seven.
• Bir Ha' — and Abu Talha's garden.
• Bussa Well — the other lightly documented one.
• Madinah Ziyarat guide — every site with its evidence stated.

Getting there

Madinah's historic sites are scattered across the city, and reaching them one taxi at a time turns a short list into a whole morning. Our Madinah Ziyarat private car covers the round on one fixed fare for the whole vehicle with the driver waiting at every stop, and the Madinah Ziyarat tour is the guided version. For arrival, the Madinah airport transfer has fixed fares.

Accuracy note

Al-'Ihn Well, also written al-Ehn, appears in Arabic sources on the historic wells of Madinah within the traditional list of seven: Aris, Ghars, Rumah, Bir Ha', Buda'ah, al-Bassah and al-'Ihn. We could not verify a specific authentic narration naming this well, its location then or now, whether anything of it survives, its dimensions or condition, or the meaning behind its name, and we have listed those gaps rather than filling them. The grouping of the wells as a set of seven is a later convenience in the heritage literature rather than a hadith, and the evidence behind individual entries varies considerably. There is nothing we can direct readers to visit, and visiting is not a rite of Hajj or Umrah. Content verified August 2026. If you hold a sourced reference for this well, please send it to us and we will update the page.