Al-Abṭaḥ (al-Muḥaṣṣab) is an area about 6 km from Mecca on the road to Medina. It lies between Mount al-Ḥajūn and Baṭn al-Wādī on one side, and the al-Salsabīl mosque on the other (al-Azraqī, 2/129). According to Abū ʿUbayd al-Bakrī (1/257), al-Abṭaḥ is a region north of Mecca, which is completely inundated whenever there is a flash flood, and is where the Banū Kināna lived (al-Azraqī, 2/130).