mountain.
3-Qadi 'Ayyad, who died in 544 of the Hijrah, author
of Description of Muslim's book of Sahih.
4-Bakri, a geographer who died in 478 of the Hijrah,
in the book of Mulam ma ista'jam.
5-Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Musa H azimi, memorizer of
the Qur'an and tradition scholar who died in the year
548 of the Hijrah.(407)
6-Great scholar Ibn al-Athir Jazirj, who died in 606
of the Hijrah, in the book of an-Nihayat al-lughah,
on the word "Thawr" (408)
7-Yaqut al-Hamawi, who died in 626 of the Hijrah,
a geographer and writer of the geographical encyclopedia
of Mu'jam al-buldan in the same book on the word "Thawr".(409)
All the above scholars assert that no such mountain
named Thawr exists in Medina. Therefore to correct
and compensate this error, Sunni tradition scholars
have made the following efforts:
The leader of their tradition scholars, al-Bukhari
who died in 256 of the Hijrah, abstain from mentioning
the name of Thawr mountain in his book of Sahih, and
says in one place:
"Medina is a sanctity from the mountain of 'Ayr
to so-and-so mountain"(410) while in Muslim's
book of Sahib the word Thawr is mentioned in the place
of so-and-so.
Beside al-Bukhari other scholars, too, have in one
way or other spoken of the incorrectness of this tradition.
One of them says: "Maybe the holy Prophet himself
has given names to two mountains of Medina."
Another scholar says: Maybe the Prophet intended to
fix the limits of the sanctity of Medina, and he has
compared its boundaries to the space which lies between
the two mountains of Mecca, since Thawr is in Mecca,
not in Medina.
A third scholar writes: The narrator mistakenly uses
the name of Thawr mountain, and he should have said
"Uhud", since Uhud is in Medina, not Thawr.
A fourth writer has left a blank space for the name
of the mountain in the narration so as to avoid probable
difficulties.
Still others make different suggestions as a way of
correcting the above tradition.(411)
