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[Herod's Gate] got its present name only in the C16 or C17 because pilgrims believed a Mamluk house inside near the Franciscan Monastery of the Flagellation to be the palace of Herod Antipas.
... Herod Antipas and that in the Middle Ages the building was identified as the house of Herod […] However, […] there is no certain evidence to suggest that it was ever associated with the Dair al-ʿAdas before the later nineteenth century. Around that time the Dair al-ʿAdas assumed that identity from another house standing some 90 m west of it
The verb 'sahira' means "to be watchful," and there are passages in the Koran which speak of the newly risen on the Day looking around watching expectantly for what will come next. The common opinion, however, is that 'as-Sahira' here is a proper noun, the name of that wide ope plain on which men will be assembled for Judgement, in which case one should translate;"there they are at as-Sahira."
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