Haram Limits in Shia and Sunni view

Study of Shrine area from the perspective of traditions and Shi’ite jurists, Sunni scholars explain about the shrine limits and its traditions, research of Mecca entries and the amount of space between shrine signs to Mecca, recognition of located sings and marks (A’lam and Ansab) in the mountains, hills and passes around Mecca, and the expression of their distance from each other, are the issues of this article. Discourse about the signs limits and their distance to Makkah and Masjid al-Haram, among the Sunni scholars, has been continued almost from the first century and many works have written on the subject which were mentioned during the discussion. There are different ideas about the distance between sings and marks (A’lam and Ansab) to the Holy Mosque and Mecca, and in our view, the theory of Huwaitan - measured by advanced software of GPS – is more accurate and correct from other measurements.