Ka'b al-Ahbar was a prominent successor (tabi'i) of Yemeni origin, renowned for his mastery of the sciences of the People of the Book, who embraced Islam during the caliphate of Umar. He holds an important place in early Islamic scholarship for his transmissions of Isra'iliyyat and exegetical material. Most sources record that his actual grave is in Homs (and by one account in Bab al-Saghir, Damascus). The station attributed to him in the Toklu Dede graveyard in Ayvansaray, Istanbul, is a symbolic pilgrimage site whose status as an actual grave is historically disputed. It was preserved in the Ottoman period as part of the culture of visiting the companion-stations along the city walls. It is therefore recorded here as a maqam whose grave-identity is contested.