Bayt al-Ahzan

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Jannat al-Baqi' in the 1910s, with the Bayt al-Ahzan located on the right-hand side of the photograph

Bayt al-Ahzan (Arabic: بَيْت ٱلْأَحْزَان, romanized: Bayt al-Aḥzān lit.'house of sorrows') is a structure which has been destroyed in the Al-Baqi Cemetery in Medinah, the Hejaz.[1][2] Bayt al-Ahzan is located at the south of ‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib[dubious discuss];[3][4] and likewise behind the court of four Shia Imams in Baqi', namely: Hasan ibn Ali, Zayn al-Abidin, Muhammad al-Baqir and Ja'far as-Sadiq.[5]

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