Bayt al-Ahzan (Arabic: بَيْت ٱلْأَحْزَان, romanized: Bayt al-Aḥzān) literally means "House of the Sorrows",[1][2] is a structure which has been destroyed in the Al-Baqi Cemetery in Medinah, the Hejaz.[3][4] Bayt al-Ahzan is located at the south of ‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib[dubious ];[5][6] 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.[7]
Considering that Fatimah al-Zahra was so sorrowful of her father's passing away and used to cry a lot for him,[8] then her husband Ali built a structure (Bayt al-Ahzan) for her to mourn her father there.[9][10]
Bayt al-Ahzan is considered the third probable place --after Al-Masjid an-Nabawi and al-Baqi' cemetery-- to be the grave place of Fatimah's grave.[11][12] This building was demolished after the (second) attack of Wahhabists to Hejaz and the occupation of Medina in 1926 (1344 A.H.).[13]
The word bayt (بَیْت) in Arabic means "home",[14] and the word "Ahzan" is the plural form of Hozn (sorrow) which means sorrows;[15] and this phrase (Bayt al-Ahzan) altogether means the home of sorrows.[16]
