Bayda (

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

: بيداء) is a desert between

Mecca Mecca, officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia; it is the Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow valley above ...

and

Medina Medina, officially al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (, ), also known as Taybah () and known in pre-Islamic times as Yathrib (), is the capital of Medina Province (Saudi Arabia), Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ...

in the Hejaz region. The desert is without water/grass and its distance to

Masjid-u-Shajarah The Mīqāt Dhu al-Ḥulayfah (), also known as Masjid Dhu al-Hulayfah (), is a ''miqat'' and mosque in Abyār ʿAlī, Medina, Saudi Arabia. The miqat mosque is located west of ''Wadi al-'Aqiq'', where the final Prophets and messengers in Islam, ...

is two kilometers towards to the city of Mecca. According to Islamic narration(s), ''Khasf al Bayda'' or swallowing (of the army of Sufyani) in the land of Bayda is among the signs of the appearance of Mahdi.

Etymology

The name of this locality was narrated at the "hadith of Khasf-e-Bayda" (swallowing in Bayda land) by such name. Both of

Shia Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood ...

and

Sunni Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Mu ...

Islam sources have mentioned about the event of "''swallowing in the territory of Bayda''" as one of the signs of the appearance of Mahdi; based on Islamic

hadiths Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

. Bayda means a desert without water and grass, and as an expression it is the name of a vast desert that is located to the 9 kilometer to the southwest of

and after Dhu al-Halifa; it likewise has been divided in two southern and northern parts through the way of Medina to

Jeddah Jeddah ( ), alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; , ), is a List of governorates of Saudi Arabia, governorate and the largest city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, and the country's second largest city after Riyadh, located ...

and

Islamic eschatology

Regarding the

Khasf al-Bayda Khasf al-Bayda (Arabic: خسف البیداء) (lit. “Swallowing the land of Bayda”), in Islamic eschatology, is a future event in which the Earth will swallow up Bayda, a desert area between Mecca and Medina. According to Islamic traditio ...

, there is a hadith from Muhammad bin 'Ali bin al-Husayn (Muhamad al-Baqir) that says: at Akhar-al-Zaman (End of Time), at the time when the army of Sufyani enters the territory of Bayda, a caller calls: Oh plain, annihilate that nation (of Sufyani army); subsequently the Earth swallows them, and all of them will be swallowed except 3 individuals.

Prayer

Based on Feqhi sources: saying prayers is

Makruh In Islamic terminology, something which is makruh or makrooh (, transliteration, transliterated: ''makrooh'' or ''makrūh'') is "disliked", literally "detestable" or "abominable". This is one of the Ahkam, five categories (''al-ahkam al-khamsa'') ...

(i.e.: not haram but better not to do) in this desert (of Bayda) and the Divine torment will be come down at this locality.Najafi, Jawaher al-Kalam, Vol. 8, P. 349

References

{{Reflist Islamic eschatology Islamic terminology Hejaz Mahdism

Etymology

Islamic eschatology

Prayer

See also

References