Beyond the Ḥaramayn, Place by Place — Ṭāʾif, Badr, Tabūk, Khaybar, al-Ḥijr

How to read this guide

Everything in this guide lies outside the two sanctuaries — hours of highway from the Ḥaramayn, on the roads the Sīrah itself travelled. And that distance changes the fiqh before it changes the scenery. The Prophet ﷺ limited journeys of devotion to three mosques only (al-Bukhārī & Muslim); so none of these places is a pilgrimage, none is owed, and none adds a grain to a completed ʿUmrah or Ḥajj. What they are is permissible travel through the pages of revelation: a believer with a free day and a rented car may read Badr on the plain of Badr and Ṭāʾif on the road where he ﷺ bled — provided the adab travels with him.

And here, more than anywhere, honesty earns its keep. This guide holds the tenderest grave in the Sīrah (his ﷺ mother's, at a bend of the old road), the one land on earth with a binding prophetic etiquette of entry (al-Ḥijr of Thamūd), a duʿā the whole ummah loves whose chain the muḥaddithīn grade weak (Ṭāʾif), and a famous Jeddah “grave” that is legend, not history. Each is told exactly as it stands.

Part I — The adab of the road, before the wheels turn

1 · Travel as he ﷺ travelled — with the duʿā of the saddle

These are all journeys, so their first sunnah is the journey's own: settle into the seat, say the takbīr thrice, and speak the words he ﷺ spoke whenever his mount straightened beneath him:

2 · The one duʿā for every graveyard on the way

Three of these journeys end at graves — the martyrs of Badr, his ﷺ mother at al-Abwāʾ, Ibn ʿAbbās at Ṭāʾif — and one greeting, taught by him ﷺ, serves them all:

3 · Carry the boundaries with you

Part II — Ṭāʾif, the city of the hardest day

Ninety kilometres south-east of Makkah, up the hairpins of al-Hadā or the long climb of al-Sayl, sits the cool garden city of Thaqīf — the city that stoned him ﷺ in the tenth year of prophethood, and embraced his dīn nine years later, weeping over what it had done. No stop in this guide holds more of his ﷺ heart.

4 · The journey of the hardest day ✦ Established

After the Year of Sorrow took Khadījah and Abū Ṭālib, he ﷺ walked to Ṭāʾif seeking one tribe's shelter — and its chiefs mocked him, set their fools and slaves on him, and drove him out with stones until his sandals ran with blood. Years later ʿĀʾishah رضي الله عنها asked him: was any day harder upon you than Uḥud? He answered with this day — and with what happened as he left: the angel of the mountains hailed him, offering to crush the city between its two hills. His reply is the summit of prophetic mercy:

5 · Masjid ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbbās — and his grave ✦ Established

In the heart of old Ṭāʾif stands the city's great historic mosque, holding the grave of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbbās رضي الله عنهما — the Prophet's ﷺ cousin, the boy he embraced with the duʿā اَللّٰهُمَّ فَقِّهْهُ فِي الدِّيْنِ وَعَلِّمْهُ التَّأْوِيْلَ, “O Allah, give him deep understanding of the dīn and teach him interpretation” (al-Bukhārī; the taʾwīl wording in Aḥmad) — who grew into the Ḥabr of this ummah, its ocean of tafsīr. Exiled from Makkah's turmoil in his blind old age, he died at Ṭāʾif in 68 AH; Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah led his janāzah and said, “Today the rabbānī of this ummah has died.” What you do: pray in the mosque, give the graveyard salām of step 2 at his resting place, and thank Allah for the man through whom the ummah reads its Qurʾān — asking nothing of him, everything for him. The building is Ottoman-and-later; the history beneath it is solid. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī · the histories of Ṭāʾif

6 · Masjid al-Kūʿ and the orchard of ʿAddās ◈ Historical

Ṭāʾif's tradition keeps two footprints of the hardest day: Masjid al-Kūʿ, the small mosque long said to mark where he ﷺ rested — its name from the wrist he leaned upon — and, by the old Wajj streambed, the remembered ground of the orchard of ʿUtbah and Shaybah, where the bleeding Prophet ﷺ took shade and the Christian slave-boy ʿAddās of Nineveh brought him grapes, heard him say bismillāh, heard the name of “my brother Yūnus, son of Mattā” — and kissed his head, the day's single believer. What you do: the story is ṣaḥīḥ-sīrah in its core; the spots are the city's continuous tradition, so they are visited as ◈ demands — prayer where a mosque stands open, reflection where an orchard once stood, and not one invented rite at either. The lesson outranks the location: on the worst day, the door that opened was a foreigner's heart. Ibn Hishām · the histories of Ṭāʾif

7 · Wādī Wajj ⚠ Sanctity not established

The valley that waters Ṭāʾif appears in a narration — “the game of Wajj and its thorn-trees are ḥarām, sanctified for Allah” — which the muḥaddithīn grade weak, and upon which the Ḥanafīs build no sanctuary rulings at all: Wajj is a beautiful wadi, not a third ḥaram. It is kept in this guide because tour guides quote the narration as settled fact. What you do: enjoy the valley as a valley; the two sanctuaries of this dīn are Makkah and Madīnah, and honesty guards their rank. Sunan Abī Dāwūd — with its grading · Aḥkām-e-Ḥajj

8 · Sūq ʿUkāẓ ◈ Historical

North-east of Ṭāʾif spread the most famous fair of pre-Islamic Arabia — poetry, trade, tribal politics — and its Islamic claim is this: season after season the Prophet ﷺ walked its crowds offering his message to every tribe, tasting refusal after refusal in the years before Madīnah said yes. The site is today a fenced heritage ground with a seasonal cultural festival. What you do: reflection for anyone who has ever had a door closed on good work — the daʿwah's greatest success grew from its most public rejections. No rite; the ground is history only. Ibn Hishām · the histories

9 · The mīqāt of this road — Qarn al-Manāzil ✦ Established

The Ṭāʾif road carries a live piece of fiqh: Qarn al-Manāzil, the mīqāt he ﷺ appointed for the people of Najd (al-Bukhārī & Muslim), stands at today's al-Sayl al-Kabīr on the lower road, with Wādī Maḥram as its aligned point on the al-Hadā mountain route. What you do: whoever returns from Ṭāʾif toward Makkah intending ʿUmrah must be in iḥrām from here — the mosques are built for it, with ghusl rooms and iḥrām shops; everything the ʿUmrah guide teaches happens at this boundary. Returning without an ʿUmrah intention needs no iḥrām at all. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī & Muslim · Rafīq-e-Ḥajj

10 · Wādī Ḥunayn, on the road ✦ Established

Between Makkah and the Ṭāʾif climbs lies a valley the Qurʾān names outright: وَيَوْمَ حُنَيْنٍ إِذْ أَعْجَبَتْكُمْ كَثْرَتُكُمْ فَلَمْ تُغْنِ عَنْكُمْ شَيْئًا — “and on the day of Ḥunayn, when your numbers pleased you, and they availed you nothing” (al-Tawbah 9:25). Here, weeks after the Conquest, twelve thousand Muslims broke at dawn in Hawāzin's ambush — and here Allah sent down His sakīnah upon His Messenger, who stood fast on his mule calling “I am the Prophet, no lie; I am the son of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib” until the day turned. What you do: nothing marks the field; the ziyārat is the āyah read where it happened, from the car window if need be — numbers never won a battle, and the lesson needs no monument. al-Tawbah 9:25–26 · Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim

Part III — Badr, the day of the Criterion

A hundred and fifty kilometres south-west of Madīnah — under two hours by the coastal road — lies the small town whose name the Qurʾān wrote into the sky: وَلَقَدْ نَصَرَكُمُ اللهُ بِبَدْرٍ وَأَنْتُمْ أَذِلَّةٌ — “and Allah gave you victory at Badr when you were weak” (Āl ʿImrān 3:123). Here, on 17 Ramaḍān 2 AH, three hundred and thirteen faced a thousand, and the day earned the Qurʾān's own title: Yawm al-Furqān, the Day of the Criterion (al-Anfāl 8:41).

11 · The battlefield ✦ Established

The plain still reads like the sūrah: the near slope where the Muslims camped, the far slope of Quraysh, the wells the believers reached first, the sand where rain fell on one army as steadiness and on the other as mire (al-Anfāl 8:11). Here the angels came down — أَنِّيْ مُمِدُّكُمْ بِأَلْفٍ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ مُرْدِفِيْنَ (8:9) — and by the rise the tradition calls Jabal al-Malāʾikah their descent is remembered. What you do: walk it with Sūrat al-Anfāl open; the whole sūrah was revealed about this ground, and no battlefield on earth has a better guidebook. The tradition-named spots (the angels' hill, the two camp slopes) carry the ◈ rule inside a ✦ event: reflect, and invent nothing. al-Anfāl 8 · Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim

12 · The martyrs of Badr ✦ Established

Fourteen men bought this day with their lives — six of the muhājirūn, eight of the anṣār, ʿUbaydah ibn al-Ḥārith and ʿUmayr ibn Abī Waqqāṣ among them — and they rest where they fell, in a walled enclosure whose fourteen names are inscribed at its gate. Of the people of Badr as a whole the Prophet ﷺ said what he said to ʿUmar: “How do you know? Perhaps Allah looked upon the people of Badr and said: do as you wish, for I have forgiven you” (al-Bukhārī & Muslim). What you do: the enclosure stays closed — the graveyard salām of step 2 is given at the wall, with duʿā and istighfār for them, women and men alike from the same boundary. They are the ummah's honoured dead, not its intercessors on demand: nothing is asked of them, and no soil leaves with you. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī & Muslim · verified at writing

13 · Masjid al-ʿArīsh — the command shelter ✦ Established

Some seven hundred metres from the enclosure stands the white mosque marking the ʿarīsh — the palm-frond shelter where the Prophet ﷺ spent the night before the battle in duʿā so intense his cloak fell from his shoulders, and Abū Bakr, alone beside him, pleaded gently: enough, O Messenger of Allah — your Lord will fulfil His promise. The words of that night are in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim:

What you do: two rakʿah of nafl in the mosque at a permissible hour, and the lesson taken whole: the best-prepared army of faith still wins by duʿā before steel. The mosque is modern; the spot is the town's continuous memory of a ṣaḥīḥ event. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim · verified at writing

14 · The qalīb — where he ﷺ addressed the slain ✦ Established

Three days after the battle, the slain chiefs of Quraysh were cast into a dry well of the plain, and the Prophet ﷺ stood over it calling them by name and their fathers' names: “Have you found what your Lord promised you to be true? For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true.” When ʿUmar asked how he could address dead bodies, he ﷺ answered: “You do not hear what I say better than they do — but they cannot reply” (al-Bukhārī & Muslim). What you do: the well itself is unmarked ground within the battlefield today; the account is the ziyārat — the Qurʾān's realism about death read aloud where its proof stood. Nothing is built on the spot, and this guide will not invent a marker the ground does not have. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī & Muslim

Part IV — The Hijrah road: al-Abwāʾ and al-Juḥfah

The old coastal road between the Ḥaramayn — today's Highway 15 corridor past Rābigh and Masturah — is itself a ziyārat: the Hijrah went up it, the armies went down it, and two of its bends hold places every heart should know it is passing.

15 · Al-Abwāʾ — the grave of his ﷺ mother ✦ Established

Near the village of al-Abwāʾ, east of Rābigh, Āminah bint Wahb died returning from Madīnah when her son was six — and here, on a journey decades later, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stopped at her grave, wept, and made those around him weep. His words about that visit are the founding text of all grave-visiting in Islam:

What you do — and the honesty: the grave today is unmarked; no enclosure, no signpost, no certainty of the metre. The ziyārat is therefore the road's: as your bus or car passes the Abwāʾ stretch, the salām of step 2 is given toward the land, the ḥadīth remembered, and the tenderness of a Prophet who wept at a mother's grave carried home. Building anything more on an unmarked bend — searches, shrines, certainty — would betray the very honesty his ﷺ own words model here. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim · the histories

16 · Al-Juḥfah — the mīqāt of the north-west ✦ Established

Near Rābigh stands the mīqāt he ﷺ appointed for the people of Shām (al-Bukhārī & Muslim) — the boundary of every pilgrim approaching from Egypt, the Levant, and today from Jeddah's northern highways when they have not flown over another mīqāt. The old town of Juḥfah drained away centuries ago — the Prophet's ﷺ duʿā in Madīnah had asked its fever be carried to Juḥfah (al-Bukhārī), and the historians watched it become a waypoint rather than a home — but the mīqāt ruling never moved. What you do: if your route to Makkah crosses here with an ʿUmrah intended, the iḥrām is tied at the mīqāt complex exactly as the ʿUmrah guide teaches; otherwise it is a signboard worth a moment's knowledge — fiqh has geography, and you are driving through it. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī & Muslim

Part V — Tabūk, the expedition of hardship

Seven hundred kilometres north of Madīnah — the farthest the Prophet ﷺ ever marched — lies the oasis of the campaign the Qurʾān calls the hour of hardship (sāʿat al-ʿusrah, al-Tawbah 9:117): Rajab 9 AH, thirty thousand men raised in drought and heat, ʿUthmān's legendary equipping of the army, and twenty days of camp that ended without a battle but rewrote the map of the north.

17 · Masjid al-Tawbah ✦ Event ◈ Building

In Tabūk's old quarter stands the mosque of Repentance — also called the Mosque of the Prophet ﷺ — marking where he led the army's prayers through those twenty days. Its name carries the campaign's deepest lesson: this was the expedition of the three who stayed behind, whose fifty days of earth-narrowing boycott ended in the āyah وَعَلَى الثَّلَاثَةِ الَّذِيْنَ خُلِّفُوْا (9:118) — truthfulness rescued where excuses drowned. The present building is an Ottoman-then-Saudi rebuilding of a continuously remembered spot. What you do: pray in it, and read Kaʿb ibn Mālik's own narration of his repentance (al-Bukhārī — the longest and most human confession in the ṣaḥīḥ) somewhere within its walls; no invented rite comes near what that text does to a heart. al-Tawbah 9:117–118 · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī

18 · ʿAyn Tabūk — the spring of the prophecy ✦ Established

Muʿādh ibn Jabal رضي الله عنه transmitted the scene: the army reached Tabūk's spring dribbling “like a shoelace”; the Prophet ﷺ gathered its trickle in his hands, washed his face in it, returned it — and it burst forth in abundance until the people drank their fill. Then he turned to Muʿādh with a prophecy:

Stand in Tabūk's farm belt today — wheat, olives, orchards spreading over what was a dying trickle — and the ḥadīth reads like a land-registry entry. What you do: the historic spring area is marked near the old town; the visit is the prophecy verified with your own eyes, and gratitude that you are part of the ummah it was spoken to. The water is water; the miracle was his ﷺ, not the tap's. Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim · verified at writing

Part VI — Khaybar, the standard of ʿAlī

19 · The forts of the black harrah ✦ Established

A hundred and seventy kilometres north of Madīnah, on a plain of black volcanic stone, rise the ruined forts of the oasis the Muslims besieged in 7 AH — al-Qamūṣ chief among them. The campaign's crown is one of the most beloved ḥadīth in the two Ṣaḥīḥs. After hard days at the walls, the Prophet ﷺ announced:

The Companions spent the night wondering; in the morning he ﷺ called for ʿAlī رضي الله عنه — eyes inflamed — spat lightly upon them and they healed on the spot, handed him the standard, and gave him the instruction that outweighs the conquest: “By Allah, that Allah should guide a single man through you is better for you than red camels.” What you do: Khaybar is a battle-and-daʿwah site like Badr — not a punished land, so no weeping rule applies; its ruins and old town are visited for reflection, its dates still famous, and the folklore of “cursed Khaybar” dismissed as folklore. The ḥadīth of the standard, read below the fort it opened, is the whole ziyārat. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī & Muslim

Part VII — Al-ʿUlā and al-Ḥijr, the warned land

Three hundred kilometres north of Madīnah opens the sandstone country of al-ʿUlā — and twenty-two kilometres beyond its town lies the one place in this whole family of guides that carries a binding prophetic etiquette of entry: al-Ḥijr, the rock-hewn dwellings the Qurʾān assigns to Thamūd, the people of Ṣāliḥ عليه السلام, and the world's brochures call Hegra or Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ.

20 · Al-Ḥijr — and the rule of entering it ✦ Established

Thamūd carved security out of mountains — وَتَنْحِتُوْنَ مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوْتًا فَارِهِيْنَ (al-Shuʿarāʾ 26:149) — demanded a sign, received the she-camel, were warned not to touch her, hamstrung her, and were taken by the ṣayḥah in three days, exactly as promised (Hūd 11:65–67; al-Shams 91:11–14). Marching to Tabūk, the Prophet ﷺ led his army through these very hollows — head lowered, cloak drawn, pace quickened — ordered the water drawn from Thamūd's wells poured out and the dough kneaded with it fed to the camels, allowed only the well of the she-camel, and gave the ruling that governs every visitor until the end of time:

What you do — the guide's plainest counsel: this is not a leisure stop, and no ticket reclassifies it. Whoever has reason to enter, enters as the sunnah drew it: briefly, humbly, reflecting to the point of tears on a civilisation's three-day end — no picnics, no posing against the tombs, no music in the punished hollows, no water or “souvenirs” of the ground taken, and the pace quickened as his ﷺ was. Whoever cannot bring that state has the ḥadīth's own alternative: do not enter — and generations of scholars, including the fatwā of the senior ʿulamāʾ that long restricted the site, chose exactly that caution. Reading Sūrat al-Shams over the plain from its edge loses a person nothing. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī & Muslim · Aḥkām-e-Ḥajj — method

21 · Al-ʿUlā town — and where the rule stops ◈ Historical

Precision protects both truth and people: al-Ḥijr is a fenced archaeological zone twenty-two kilometres from al-ʿUlā's town, and the weeping-entry ruling attaches to the punished dwellings, not to the whole governorate. The old mud-brick town, the oasis, the ordinary valleys where Muslims have farmed for fourteen centuries carry no such rule — travellers have lodged there since the Tabūk army itself camped in the region. What you do: if the north calls you, the town is a lawful base with ordinary travel adab; entry to al-Ḥijr itself runs only through the official managed visits (booked tours, timed tickets) — and the believer takes the ḥadīth of site 20 in with him, or contentedly stays out. Extending the warning to all of al-ʿUlā wrongs its people; erasing it from al-Ḥijr wrongs the ḥadīth. Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī & Muslim · verified at writing

Part VIII — Jeddah, the gate of the Ḥaramayn

22 · The “grave of Ḥawwāʾ” ⚠ Not established

Old Jeddah keeps a long walled cemetery its people call Maqbarat Ummina Ḥawwāʾ — the grave of our mother Eve — and folklore once even derived the city's name from jaddah, grandmother. The verdict of the muḥaqqiqīn is unambiguous: no established text places Ḥawwāʾ's grave anywhere on earth — Ibn Kathīr and the critics of narration dismiss the attribution, and the domed tomb that once stood over it was removed generations ago for exactly this reason. What you do: if you pass the cemetery, it holds ordinary Muslims of Jeddah — the graveyard salām of step 2 serves them fully; but no ziyārat is made to Ḥawwāʾ there, no duʿā is aimed at the legend, and a guide who sells the story is corrected gently with this page. Honouring our mother عليها السلام needs no address. Ibn Kathīr — al-Bidāyah · the muḥaqqiqīn

23 · Al-Balad — the historic gate ◈ Historical

Jeddah's true Islamic title is written in its stones: in 26 AH, ʿUthmān رضي الله عنه fixed it as the port of Makkah, and for fourteen centuries nearly every seaborne pilgrim on earth stepped onto these lanes first — a service to the Ḥaramayn that UNESCO's listing of “Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah” merely certifies. The coral-stone towers with their wooden rawāshīn balconies, and the old mosques among them — al-Shāfiʿī with its ancient minaret, the ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān (Ebony) mosque — are the surviving furniture of that hospitality. What you do: an evening's walk of the Balad with this frame — every alley fed pilgrims — plus prayers in its old mosques as in any mosque; heritage manners, no rites, and the recognition that serving the road to the House has been an act of love in every century, including whichever one your own flight lands in. The histories of Jeddah · verified at writing

Fitting the far sites into a real trip

Unlike the city circuits of Makkah and Madīnah, these are day-trips and detours — and none is owed. Take what your dates, strength and budget allow, keep every farḍ prayer where the ummah prays it, and let the rest go without a backward glance.

Mistakes & innovations to avoid

• Turning the far sites into pilgrimage. Devotional journeys are to three mosques only; vowing a “ziyārat of Badr” or grading anyone's Ḥajj by whether they reached Ṭāʾif invents an obligation the sharīʿah never wrote.
• Petitioning the martyrs of Badr. The people of Badr hold the ummah's highest honour — and they are asked for, never asked from; litanies that call upon “Ahl Badr” for needs invert the graveyard salām into what it forbids.
• Pocketing battlefield blessings. Sand from Badr, stones from the harrah of Khaybar, water hoarded as “special” — the ground of a miracle is still ground; barakah is in obedience, not gravel.
• The spitting theatre at Badr's “Abū Lahab grave.” He is not buried there — he died in Makkah — and spitting or stoning graves is no act of this dīn regardless. Sūrat al-Masad is his account; recite it and walk on.
• Reciting the weak as if certain. The Ṭāʾif duʿā's chain is graded weak, the Wajj-sanctity narration weaker still; loving their meanings is fine — presenting them as verbatim revelation, or building rulings on them, is not.
• Tourism inside al-Ḥijr against its ḥadīth. Picnics, posed photos, music and merchandise among the punished dwellings collide head-on with a ṣaḥīḥ, explicit command. Enter weeping, or take the ḥadīth's own alternative and do not enter.
• Stretching or shrinking the al-Ḥijr rule. Extending it to all of al-ʿUlā wrongs its living people; erasing it from al-Ḥijr wrongs the text. The fence of the ruling is where the ruins are.
• Ziyārat to the “grave of Ḥawwāʾ.” The attribution is legend; duʿā aimed at it builds worship on a story. The Muslims buried in that cemetery receive the ordinary salām — our mother عليها السلام needs no address to be honoured.
• Inventing arithmetic for road mosques. “A prayer at al-ʿArīsh equals…” — no, it does not; no text says so. The road's mosques are prayed in like any mosque, and their worth is the history they mark.
• Collecting kilometres while the Ḥaram waits. Whoever tours every site in this guide but trades away his congregations has bought stories at the price of the one thing the journey was for.

Sources & method

This guide walks the farthest ground with the shortest leash on speculation. Its material is drawn from:

• رفیق حج — Rafīq-e-Ḥajj of Muftī Muḥammad Rafīʿ ʿUthmānī رحمه الله (English: Companion of Hajj) — the frame of adab for travel and graves, and the standing warnings against invented practices.
• Aḥkām-e-Ḥajj of Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʿ ʿUthmānī — the method: what a text establishes, what history carries, what a weak chain may and may not bear.
• The ḥadīth collections — al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī and the Musnad — the angel of the mountains, the ʿArīsh duʿā, the qalīb address, his ﷺ mother's grave, the spring of Tabūk, the standard of Khaybar, and the entry-rule of al-Ḥijr are all quoted from them directly, with every disputed grading flagged.
• The Sīrah of Ibn Hishām and the histories — al-Azraqī's school for the Ḥijāz towns, the historians of Ṭāʾif and Jeddah — for topography and identifications, always labelled as history, never promoted to ḥadīth.
• Ibn Kathīr (al-Bidāyah wa'l-Nihāyah, the Tafsīr) and the muḥaqqiqīn — for the verdicts on legend: the Ḥawwāʾ grave, the Wajj narration, the Abū Lahab folklore.
• Fatāwā ʿUthmānī of Muftī Muḥammad Taqī ʿUthmānī — contemporary conduct at sites, and the balance between lawful travel and invented devotion.

أَعُوْذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللهِ التَّامَّاتِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ

I take refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created. (He ﷺ promised: whoever alights at any stop and says this, nothing will harm him until he departs — Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim.)

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