Editing Lot in Islam (section)

== Monument ==
Many Muslims{{Who|date=April 2025}} believe that [[Bani Na'im]] ({{Langx|ar|بني نعيم|translit=Banī Naʾīm|lit=children of bliss}}) in [[Palestine]] houses the tomb of Lot in the center of the town. The tomb is located within a rectangular [[mosque]] with an inner court and [[minaret]]. The lintel of the mosque's northern gate is built from stones dating to the Byzantine era when a church had possibly stood at the site.  Bani Na'im's association with Lot predates Islam, as the works of the Catholic scholar [[Jerome]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Sharon |first=Moshe |title=Bani Na'im |encyclopedia=Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP) Volume Two: B-C |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EPFDU8POrXIC&q=%22Lot%27s+tomb%22+Jerome&pg=PA12 |access-date=26 June 2013 |year=1999 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9004110836 |page=12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131011090740/http://books.google.com/books?id=EPFDU8POrXIC&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q=%22Lot's%20tomb%22%20Jerome&f=false |archive-date=11 October 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> in the 4th century CE state that the tomb is located in a town named Capharbaricha, which is likely the former name of Bani Na'im.<ref>{{cite book | title=Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Armenian Studies. Collected Papers: Volume I | last1=Stone|first1=Michael E. |page=693|year=2006|publisher=Peeters}}</ref>

Tradition holds that the tomb of his daughters is located on a nearby hill.<ref>Finn, 1877, p. [https://archive.org/stream/byewaysinpalesti00finniala#page/291/mode/1up 291] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412000144/https://archive.org/stream/byewaysinpalesti00finniala#page/291/mode/1up |date=12 April 2016 }}</ref> To the southeast of Bani Na'im is a shrine dedicated to Lot, known as ''[[Maqam (shrine)|Maqam]] an-Nabi Yaqin'' ({{Langx|ar|مقام النبي يقين|lit=Shrine of the Truthful Prophet}}). Local legend claims Lot prayed at the site and that the imprints of his feet are still visible in a rock there.<ref>Sharon, 1999, [https://books.google.com/books?id=EPFDU8POrXIC&pg=PA15 15] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200205154026/https://books.google.com/books?id=EPFDU8POrXIC&pg=PA15 |date=5 February 2020 }}</ref> Similar alleged footprints of prophets and other holy men are found at Islamic shrines throughout the Middle East.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Handy Islam Answer Book|last1=Renard|first1=John|page=173|year=2015|publisher=Visible Ink Press}}</ref>