Fakhkh is a wādī located approximately four kilometres northwest of the great mosque in Mecca. It is now called al-Shuhadāʾ (the Martyrs) but has also been known as Wādī al-Zāhir. According to Yāqūt (d. 310/923), ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUmar (d. 132/749-50, son of the second caliph) and other Companions of the Prophet were said to have been buried here. There is a marker in al-Shuhadāʾ for the gravesite of ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUmar, but it is best known as the site of the battle that ended