This city was formerly home to a cemetery called “the field of thorny trees.” One text states that this city will have seven gates, each guarded by two angels, to prevent entry of the Dajjal. A document named for this city says that each of nine tribes was responsible for its own blood money and ransom payments. A building in this city was the first of its kind to have two niches. Another building in this city has a Green Dome on its southeast corner above several graves. This city is called by its original name of Yathrib in a text discussing the Battle of the Trench, which took place just outside it. The beginning of the Islamic calendar is marked by a pilgrimage to this city called the Hijrah. For 10 points, Muhammad and his followers fled to what second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca? ■END■
ANSWER: Medina [or Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah or Yathrib until read]
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