Christchurch as the Modern Day Ukhdud
The story is told in the last testament; the story of Ashab al-Ukhdud- the companions of the Ditch. But exactly who are they? Of these, little information is available to Muslim exegetes and Jurists. Exactly where is the ditch located? Again, there is little consensus among Arab historians and cartographers with reference to this. While some of them posit that the event took place somewhere around Najran, on the Arabian Peninsula, Ibn Kathir, however, says it was somewhere in Persia.
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