Ahl al-Bayt
Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Uncle and protector of the Prophet
The Prophet's uncle who raised and protected him; father of Ali and Ja'far. Died c.619; buried at al-Hajun.
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Uncle and protector of the Prophet
The Prophet's uncle who raised and protected him; father of Ali and Ja'far. Died c.619; buried at al-Hajun.
Dhu al-Nurayn
Third Rightly-Guided Caliph (644-656), who compiled the Qur'an into a single codex. Buried in Jannat al-Baqi; the individual grave is unmarked after the 1925-26 demolition.
al-Faruq
The second Rightly-Guided Caliph (634-644); buried beside the Prophet and Abu Bakr.
First Caliph
The first Rightly-Guided Caliph (632-634), the Prophet's closest companion; buried beside the Prophet in the Sacred Chamber.
Grandfather of the Prophet
The Prophet's grandfather; rediscovered Zamzam and led the Banu Hashim. Died c.577 in Mecca; buried at al-Hajun (Jannat al-Mu'alla).
Son of the Prophet
The Prophet's younger son from Khadija, called al-Tayyib and al-Tahir; died young. Buried in Jannat al-Mu'alla (unmarked).
Son of the Prophet
The Prophet's eldest son from Khadija; died young. The kunya "Abu al-Qasim" derives from him. Buried in Jannat al-Mu'alla (unmarked).
First believer, Mother of the Believers
The Prophet's first wife and the first to believe in Islam. Died in Mecca in 619 CE; buried in Jannat al-Mu'alla (unmarked).
Daughter of the Prophet
Daughter of the Prophet, wife of Ali, mother of Hasan and Husayn; buried secretly at night per her will. The exact location is unknown.
Martyr of Uhud
Son of the Prophet's aunt Umayma; martyred at Uhud and buried adjacent to Hamza.
First teacher of Islam
The first envoy/teacher of Islam in Medina; martyred carrying the banner at Uhud. Buried at the Uhud cemetery.
Chief of the Martyrs
The Prophet's uncle, "Lion of Allah"; martyred at Uhud in 625 and buried at the Uhud cemetery.
Wet-nurse of the Prophet
From the Banu Sa'd tribe, the Prophet's wet-nurse. The prevailing view places her grave in Jannat al-Baqi (unmarked).
Son of the Prophet
The Prophet's son from Maria; died around 16-18 months old. Buried in Jannat al-Baqi (unmarked).
Mother of the Believers
Daughter of Umar, wife of the Prophet; the first written codex of the Qur'an was kept with her. Buried in Jannat al-Baqi (unmarked).
Mother of the Believers
Daughter of Abu Bakr, wife of the Prophet, one of the foremost narrators of hadith. Buried in Jannat al-Baqi (unmarked).
Founder of Ja'fari jurisprudence
Son of Muhammad al-Baqir; among his students were Abu Hanifa and Imam Malik. Buried in Jannat al-Baqi (unmarked).
İmam Efendi
Born in the Abdurrahman Ağa quarter of Erzurum, he became known as “İmam Efendi” because he served as a battalion imam during his military years. A Naqshbandi-Khalidi shaykh, he was a successor (khalifa) of Mahmud Sâminî Paluvî and a leading figure of the Sâminî branch, leaving works such as “Gülzâr-ı Sâminî.” Retiring from military service in 1909, he settled in Harput, holding his gatherings in the Kurşunlu Mosque. He died in Harput and was buried in his türbe in the Meteris Cemetery. (Birth/death years vary across sources — 1856/1858 and 1922/1924 — and are therefore omitted.)
Seyda
Abd al-Rahman al-Tahi (al-Taghi), born in 1831 in the Şirvan area of Siirt and known as “Seyda,” was a nineteenth-century Naqshbandi-Khalidi scholar and Sufi. After an early affiliation with the Qadiri order, he entered the Naqshbandi-Khalidi path through Sayyid Sibghatullah al-Arvasi. He settled in the village of Norşin (today Güroymak) in Bitlis, where he founded an influential lodge and trained many successors. He died in Norşin in 1886 and was buried there.
author of the Muhammediyye
A Sufi and author of the Bayramiyye order, affiliated with Hacı Bayrâm-ı Velî. His most famous work is the Muhammediyye, a Turkish verse work on the Prophet completed at Gelibolu in 853 (1449); he also wrote the Arabic Meġāribü’z-zamân. He lived in Gelibolu together with his brother Ahmed Bîcan and died there in 855 (1451). His grave lies in the tomb within the precinct of the mosque now known as the Yazıcıoğlu Mosque.
Jahidi Sultan
Born in Edirne, he was a Sufi and poet of the Uşşâkıyye branch of the Halvetiyye order and is regarded as the founder of the “Câhidiyye” sub-branch. For many years he guided followers across the Çanakkale, Biga, Lapseki, Bayramiç and Gelibolu regions. He left a Divan of mystical folk poetry and a treatise titled Kitâbü’n-Nasîha. He died in 1070 (1659-60) at Kilitbahir and was buried in the tomb beside the mosque that bears his name.
Shaykh (Yeseviyye)
Emirci Sultan, whose real name was Sharaf al-Din Ismail b. Muhammad, was a shaykh of the Yeseviyye order in the tradition of Ahmad Yasawi. He lived in the present-day Yozgat region during the Seljuk period, trained disciples at the lodge he founded, and died in 1240 (AH 637). He is associated with the Babai movement; his grave lies in the tomb beside his lodge in the village of Osmanpaşa. The original gravestone inscription, in Seljuk sülüs script, survives.
Baba (warrior-dervish)
A warrior-dervish (gazi-derviş) said to have been sent to the region during the Anatolian Seljuk period for the conquest of the Garbîkaraağaç (Acıpayam) area, who then settled there and founded a lodge to guide the people. The town of Yatağan that grew where he settled takes its name from him. His tomb bears the Hijri date 642 (1244-1245); his exact birth and death dates are unknown. Besides his own, the tomb contains the cenotaphs of his wife and his son Murat Bey. The türbe was registered as a monument on 23 January 1991.
Shaykh (Mevlevi)
A Mevlevi poet and shaykh, born in 875 (1470) in Muğla as the son of Sâlih Hüdâyî Dede, shaykh of the Muğla Mevlevihane. Known by the pen name “Şâhidî,” he took over as shaykh of the Muğla Mevlevihane after the death of his master Dîvâne Mehmed Çelebi. He is best known for his Persian-Turkish versified dictionary Tuhfe-i Şâhidî, and works such as Gülşen-i Tevhîd and Gülşen-i Esrâr. His death is recorded as 957 (1550). The TDV entry states he was buried at the foot of his master’s grave (in Afyonkarahisar), whereas local tradition holds his grave is in Muğla beside his father’s; this discrepancy is explicitly noted in the sources.