Below are pictures of the tomb of Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas.
Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas is one of the 10 Sahaba Promised Jannah, he fough valiantly at key battles such as Badr & Uhud. Served under our Prophet (pbuh), all 4 Khalifa’s and is one of the Sahaba responsible for bringing Islam to China. He is buried in Guangzhou & his son built the first masjid in China (i’ll feature those pictures soon)
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30 Responses to “The Tomb of Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas”
June 20, 2008
fazel patelassalamualiakum
thank you for displaying these wounderful picture, i have made many research about muslim in china and look for different kind of info and picture of muslim china, i was always hopeing to see the picture of s ad ibn abi waqqas finally now i have found them thank you allah the all mercyful, i wound be greatful if you can tell which one of the image is the tomb of s ad ibn abi waqqas is it image 6 and who are the other grave , please let me no if you get any other picture or image of an y thing to do with muslim china, may allah bless you in your great work that you have done jazakallahu kairun
was salam
June 20, 2008
naeemWslms Fazel
The picture of Sa’d RA grave is the 2nd row, last pic (one with the shiny green cloth)
The other graves do have inscriptions, but unfortunately all in chinese and dont know what they mean.
I also have pictures of the ‘oldest mosque in china’ apparently built by the son of Sa’ad bin Waqqas RA! – I’ll publish these next week sometime.
If you have articles related to Islam in china, please pass them my way, would love to publish them online.
June 29, 2008
yunoossalams, i toohave visited thistomb, and had the opprtunity to speak to many chinese scholars while in china, the fact is that sa’ad ibn abi waqqas, the maternal uncle of the prophet p.b.u.h was not buried in canton but in medina,can you send me further info
July 7, 2008
MalikAssalaamalaykum, Brother can you give sources that this is the grave of Saad ibn abi Waqas. If you mean Saad ibn abi Waqas ( a.k.a. Saad ibnu Malik), one of the 10 sahaba promised jannah, also known as Faris al-Islam (Knight of Islam) and Khal ar-Rasul (uncle of the Messenger), the great archer, the Lion in his den, the Sahaba who led the Battle of Qadisiya….Then I am pretty sure he died at an old age (I think 81 years old) in Madina and is buried in Jannat al-Baqi, next to Masjid Nabawi.
July 7, 2008
naeem.co.zawslms Malik
The pictures i took myself so they’r as original as they get. But yes, As Yunoos above mentioned, many say he was buried in Madina and NOT in China. Though this place is promoted as the burial area of Sa’ad RA, also the arabic text reads “Raudha Abi Waqas”
I think in the end, Allah Knows Best.
Pictures are more to show Islam in China, how different their mosques & graves are compared to what we as South Africans are accustomed to.
July 8, 2008
MalikThanks for the reply br. Naeem,
Could it be that it is the grave of the son or a decendant of Saad ibn abi Waqas r.a. Anyway the pictures are fascinating, JazakAllah for them!
July 9, 2008
AbdoeragmaanI have seen graves simillah in Cape Town but what is the bucket & rack, is that for wudhu.
July 9, 2008
naeem.co.zaAbdoer, the bucket & cover, thats a freshwater well!
Must say, the water was very refreshing & sweet 🙂
I’v been to the one in Cape Town many years ago (the one near Camps Bay?) Next time i go there, i’ll photograph and post the pictures
July 11, 2008
tawfeeki,ve been to this place many times now. since we discovered this place we,ve been very succssful in life n our business.
July 24, 2008
AbdoeragmaanYa akhi dont even think that you could get success from a grave. yes the mearcy & barakah of Allah decends there but dont for one moment think that you get the goodnes from the graves. its from Allah only.
July 24, 2008
AbdoeragmaanCape Town has many. most people go to camps bay beacuse that is the one most obvious. just a Km back towards cape town there is a path that leads to hundreds of graves of the muslim who we can call mujahids. as the faught for the dutch against the british because the dutch promised them freedom to practice Islam if they defended the cape. imangine that fighting for your opresses & they still werent free as they were slaves. freedom in religion meant more to them.
August 10, 2008
OThmanAs I went through variuos literatures about this, I found that S,ad was burried in Madina. would you please give us referred document that state his burrial in Guangzhou?
Thanks
August 10, 2008
naeem.co.zaOthman – no documents – i took these photo’s while on a business trip to China. However, many believe he is buried in Madina – Allahu Knows Best.
Perhaps the tomb in China could be built as a memorial type thing for him. After all, it was he who ignited the flame of Islam in China.
November 20, 2008
AbdoeragmaanSa’d bin Abi Waqqas
He is nicknamed Abu Ishaq bin Malik and was a Zuhri and a Qurashi. He was the fifth or the seventh Muslim & one of the ten to whom the entry of Paradise was promised. He is the first man to shoot in the cause of Allah and participated in all the important battles. He opened ‘Iraq for Islam and his supplications were accepted. He was short, stout and hairy. He died at Al-‘Aqiq which is ten miles from Al-Madina and was carried on the people’s shoulders up to Al-Madina and was buried at Al-Baqi’ in the year 55 H.
[notes from the book Subul-us-Salaam-in the kietaab Bulugh Al-Maram]
But no doubt the grave is of a pious muslim. The shroud on a grave indicates one who has reached a high darajah & could have been capable of performing karamaat by the permission of Allah.
December 30, 2008
ZahiraIn Mauritius, We have many aulia allah’s on our motherland, namely Peer Jamal Shah, Peer Zahour Shah, Peer Aboubakr Shah, Bibi Amina Soudar, Peer Jahangir Shah and so on.
February 14, 2009
zohaibguyz can anyone tell me the name of that sahabi who was taken out from his grave in Iran or som where…..i want that video
February 23, 2009
S.NaqviSalaam
I have been to China many times and the tomb is know was of Waqas. Does anyone know when and why did Saad Ibn Waqaas migrate? Was he assigned by Qalifa to do so? Wasn’t his son, Umar Ibn Saad the commander in chief of the army that fought Hussain Ibn Ali in Karbala?
March 7, 2009
saifulsynSa’d bin Abi Waqqas, was assigned by our prophet Muhamad, for the purpose of (Da’wah).
In some hadith narrated that, about 60,000 sahaba died in China.
March 10, 2009
YumnaJust heard on radio a few days ago by a well known Mufti, that the Chinese love to promote this as the grave of Sa’ad ibn Abi Waqqas (RA) but it isn’t , as he didn’t pass away in China.
April 7, 2009
saqibNop. this cannot be there tome.
Hazrat Saad Bin Abi Waqaas (RA) are burried at jannatul baqi, Medina Munawara.
May 15, 2009
WanI have been to GZ a few times but only to Huaisheng Mosque. Could you tell me where is this tomb of Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas? Is it near to the mosque?
Definitely according to Muslim historians, the maternal uncle of our beloved Prophet s.a.w. died and buried in al-Madinah, but the “maqam” of Sa’d indeed was in GZ (as per picture). I deduced that great Sahaba was in China, and the Muslims there commemorated his presence with a “maqam” which later was mistaken as a grave.
Wan
May 29, 2009
Hameed JalalAssalamu alaikum Writer: S Naqvi,
I read from some records on Muslims in China that Liu Chi, a well known Chinese Historian (who wrote a 12-volume Life of the Prophet in 1721 A.D) sated that Saad Ibn Abi-Waqqas (rad.) arrived in China in 587 A.D., with 3 other companions, then returned to Arab lands some time later. Broomhall, the British Historian in the early 19th Century stated that the same arrival as having taken place in 611 A.D. with almost similar historical references. (Both Historians who calculated the dates based on records of 10 centuries earlier had understandable difficulties with the exact year of the same event, because according to modern calculations the companions were in Abyssinia in 615 A.D.) In otherwords they both were talking about the same event with earlier and different dates. The event (not the years) tallies with the Arab accounts in that when the early Muslims were being persecuted in Makkah some of them migrated to Abyssinia but most of them later came back, including the Abyssinian companion Bilal (rad.). One of the four companions whose names are missing from the list of returnees is Saad (rad.) who is said to have sailed from Abyssinia to China with three others. It has been well documented by Arab Historians, though, that he later lead campaigns to conquer lands north of Madinah and passed away at old age (81 or 82) and was interred in Madinah. It appears highly probable therefore the events may be as follows: That Saad ibn Abi Waqqas (rad.) did arrive in Guangzhou around 616 A.D. or soon after that, stayed for a while and went back to Arabia and passed away and was interred in Madinah several years later. The historical records also state that a copy of the Qur’aan was brought 21 years after the first incident, and the site of these arrivals was an Arab settlement on the banks of the Pearl River with a light house in which later became the minarette of the Mosque of Holy Rememberance, described by the writer Wan in the previous message. The ‘Waqqas’ Tomb which is further north might be the tomb of the bringer of the Quraan 21 years later or some other Muslim dignitory. The name may be purely coincidal or concocted. Well this is my theory but Chinese scholars I spoke to seem to be scheptical. Allah a’lam. Further research is needed. Wassalam.
June 1, 2009
hanzakhanAsslam o Alaikum wr wb ,
for u infromation i tell u that THSI IS THE TOMB OF ABI WAQAS RAZI ALLAH O TAHALA HUN HU , not the saad bin Abi waqas , i live in hong kong near the tomb i been there ,
October 3, 2009
Islamic Art Feature: Pick of the Week 10/3/09 | MuslimMatters.org[…] check out the photos of what some claim to be the Tomb of Sa`d ibn Abi Waqqas, radiallahu anhu, in Guangzhou, China, taken by Naeem Mayet. There is an interesting discussion in the comments section about the […]
October 8, 2009
umm abdullahaoa while searching on net about islam i found your website very amazing and informative god bless you .Could you please help me about a hadeeth in which companion of profit sent to china to get jazya in early days they agreed to pay jazya but later on they refused claming that couldnot see the fear of allah on their faces as it was observed those who came
at the time of profit saw.
regards
ummabdullah
October 15, 2009
Hoodplease note that sa’d ibn abi waqqas is one person and abi waqqas(the father of waqqas) another person.
the companion r.a. is sa’d the son of the father of waqqas. In other words, sa’d is the brother of waqqas. abu waqqas is the father of both sa’d and waqqas.
the other person is called (abu waqqas) the father of waqqas. who is he ? Definitely not the companion. Allah knows best.
January 18, 2010
Ahmed AyazBismillah hirRahma nirRaheem
Sallallahu alaa Nabi Wa AAlehi Wa Ashaabehi Wa Barik Wasalam
Why are you people quarling . Does it make sense that chinese made a Mosque and a Roza of Sahaba (Razi Allah Anhu) , to attract all the chinese to come and get impressed of Islam???
Dear muslims its the sign of glory of Islam that what difficult and farther parts of world Sahaba (Razi Allah Anhuma) travelled and preached the Light of Islam.
I think its one of the only Rozaa’s of Ashra Mubashrah which has remained safe from the dirty hands of “Najdi”.
Don’t be deprived of this PEARL only because of doubt.
May Allah set us on Right Paath (AAmeen)
January 20, 2010
AfzalReputable works in Arabic such as Al-Isti’aab and Tazkiratul Huffaaz clearly state that Sa’d Ibn Abi Waqqaas Radhi Allahu Anhu passed away in a place called Aqeeq which is ten miles from Madinah. He was then carried to and burried in Jannatul Baqi in Madinah.
January 29, 2010
Farooque AhmedSaad bin Waaqas led a first Arab embassy to Tang China in 651 AD according to Abul Fazl Ezzati, 1994, Introduction to the History of the Spread of Islam, Tehran, pp. 300,303, 333, 451. In Manipur (Northeast India), the Muslims (locally known as Meitei Pangal) traced their origin to Amir Hamza (who died in Battle of Uhood in 625 AD), Sadik Para (Saad bin Waqqas), Kutwan Khan and Ashim Shah in the reign of Manipur king Naophang Ahal (c. 594-624 AD) with Aribah (Aribam as the first clan) and Makhtum clan as contemporary of it; the latter are noted to have arrived in Manipur either on land route, or ancient silk route or sea-silk route. It is no wonder that Chinese Muslims (Hui) believed that Saad bin Waqqas. Burmese Muslims too traced their origin to Amir Hamza (who were in north Arakan) for some time, before 625 AD and Muhamad al-Hanafiyya bin Ali (685-710 AD) who married local queen Khaya Para. The tomb of the couple (Hanafiyya and Khaya Pari) is still there in Maungdaw, north of Arakan (of Burma, Myanmar now) which is eastern border of Manipur (India). You can just visit and check out its veracity. (just click search engine of Google and you will find everything).
Farooque Ahmed
Manipur University
Department of History
February 5, 2010
Muhammad Iqbal HussainThis tomb present in GUANZHOU is not of Hazrat SAAD Bin ABI WAQAS (WHO IS ONE OF ASHRA MUBASHRA)
THIS TOMB IS OF ABI WAQAS (WHO IS DIFFERENT PERSONALITY THAN HAZRAT SAAD BIN ABI WAQAS)
PLEASE MAKE CORRECTION