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  • 2022-01-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Photo of cleric's tomb in India misleadingly shared as 'Prophet Abraham’s tomb' (en)
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  • A photo has been shared thousands of times on Facebook in Muslim-majority Bangladesh alongside a claim it shows the tomb of Prophet Abraham, who is recognised as a messenger of Allah in Islam. The claim is false; the photo actually shows the tomb of a cleric in India. Prophet Abraham's tomb is in Jerusalem, an Islamic history professor told AFP. The photo was shared here on Facebook on December 24, 2021. ( AFP) The post's Bengali-language caption translates as: Tomb of Prophet Abraham (Peace Be Upon Him). Let’s share this and let others see. In Islam, Prophet Abraham is recognised as a messenger of God. He is also a key figure in other Abrahamic religions -- most notably Christianity and Judaism -- as outlined in this article published by the British Library. The photo was shared here and here alongside a similar claim. The claim, however, is false. A reverse image search on Google found that the image corresponds with images of a tomb for a Muslim cleric in India. One image was shared here in an article on a travel blog about Indian cultural sites. It is about the tomb of a Muslim cleric -- Hazrat Dawood Shah Wali -- which is located here in a village in India's Andhra Pradesh state. Below is a screenshot comparison of the image in the misleading posts (L) and the image on the blog site (R): Further keyword searches on Google Maps found other corresponding images of the tomb of Hazrat Dawood Shah Wali. Below is a screenshot comparison of the photo of the misleading Facebook post (L) and the image from Google Maps (R): Prophet Abraham's tomb Md Ataur Rahman Biswas, professor of Islamic history and culture at the University of Dhaka, told AFP that Prophet Abraham's tomb is actually situated in Jerusalem. It is a well known fact that Prophet Abraham’s tomb is situated in Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron in Jerusalem, he said. This report by the UK's Guardian newspaper also states Abraham and his wife are believed to be buried in Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque -- known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs. The United Nations’ cultural arm UNESCO declared the Old City of Hebron an endangered world heritage site, sparking outrage from Israel in a new spat at the international body, AFP reported in July 2017. (en)
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