The Prophet (a.s.) built a house for guests called ad-Dar al-Kubra (the big house).[11] It was the first house in Medina to be taken for this concern. The delegations that came to the Prophet (a.s.) to announce their faith in Islam or for other things stayed in this house. Habib bin Amr narrated, “We were seven persons that once came to Medina. We met the Prophet (a.s.), who was going to escort a dead person after being invited to that. We greeted him and he replied to our greeting. He asked who we were and we said, “We are from Salaman coming to pay homage to you as Muslims with all our tribe that we have left there.”
The Prophet (a.s.) asked his servant Thowban to take those men to the guest-house that Habib described as a big house with a garden of date-palms and that there were some Arab delegations in it.[12]
The Prophet (a.s.) also had assigned a house, which belonged to Makhramah bin Nawfal,[13] for the reciters of the Qur'an who came to Medina from other places.[14]
[11] Al-Wafa’, vol. 1 p. 555.
[12] The System of the Prophet’s Government, p. 466, quoted from al-Iktifa’ by Ibn ar-Rabee’ al-Kila’iy.
[13] Uyoon al-Athar by ibn Sayyid an-Nas, vol. 4 p. 250.
[14] At-Tabaqat al-Kubra by ibn Sa’d, vol. 4 p. 150.
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