The House of Ramlah Bint Al-Harith and Its Uses in The Early Years of Islam

Abstract

 Out of the given situation, an important house was established in Medina during the reign of the Messenger of Allah which was used in several areas; used by the Messenger of Allah  to accommodate the delegations of tribes that came to Medina as the capital of the State of Islam in order to meet the Prophet   and make allegiance to Islam. This house was also used for the imprisonment of captives and their families who were brought from the battles, and taken by the Messenger of Allah  as warehouse to store weapons and belongings of the spoils.It was a venue where negotiations took place with the Jews and an agreement was reached between the two parties. Moreover, important dialogues were held with some tribal delegations in this house where the hospitality of the Messenger of Allah  came over the inhabitants of this house of arrivals at both lunch and dinner, whether those arrivals were delegations or  and captives and their families. This house was owned by a Muslim woman from Ansar from Bani al-Najjar, after whom this house came to be called as Dar Ramlahbint al-Harith.This house has the required advantages to perform these tasks. The most important of which was its space, for some of the delegations were up go two hundred men, and the prisoners were hundreds, such as what happened with BaniQuraizah, and the captivity was much more. The house was close to the Prophet's Mosque where the Prophet spends most of his time. Its location was safe being in the center of the city among the houses of Bani Al-Najjar, the tribe that was loyal to the Messenger of Allah   from the beginning.