Person in the Tomb
Abdurrahman Şami is one of the companions who is reported to have been the standard-bearer of Khalid ibn Zayd Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and standard-bearer of the Prophet Muhammad.
He was martyred during the Umayyad siege of Constantinople in 668-669. It is thought that the place where his grave is accepted to be was a “makam türbe” (one of the possible graves of the said person) and was determined after the conquest. In this respect, it has a representative nature like many of the Companions' shrines in İstanbul.
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The tomb is a single-storey building built with rubble stone and bricks and has a tile roof.
On the street-facing facade, there is an entrance with an inscription and a large prayer window.
Above the entrance, there is the following inscription written by the calligrapher Mehmed İzzet Efendi in 1302/1885:
“This is the blessed grave of Abdurrahman eş-Şami, the standard-bearer of Halid who hosted in his house the Holy Prophet.”
There is a coffin inside the tomb.
The tevhidhane, located on the qibla side of the tomb, is a rectangular, single-storey, masonry building. The mihrab is designed in the form of a basket-handled arch.
The tevhidhane is illuminated by four flat arched windows.
