It is located 20 m 66 ft east of the Kaaba , [ 2 ] the holiest place in Islam. It is stated to have dried up during the settlement of the Jurhum in the area and to have been rediscovered in the 6th century by Abd al-Muttalib , grandfather of Muhammad. The origin of the name is uncertain. She states that this latter meaning of an unintelligible guttural sound encompasses a layer of meaning associated with the sacred and mystical, in addition to the basic notion of the sound possibly being related to the concept of an abundant flow of water.
The terms are onomatopoeic and derive from what Arabs perceived to be an indistinct, droning sound of the recitation of Avestan prayers and scriptures by Magi. They argue that based on their "kinship with Abraham " Zoroastrians regularly made pilgrimages to Mecca to pray over the well. Other medieval Arabic sources connect the name to the Angel Gabriel being the source of the murmuring being captured by this onomatopoeia. The two are narrated to have been suffering severely from thirst. In some versions of the story Hajar walks back and forth between the two hills of Safa and Marwah in search of water.
In others, focused on the well itself, the objects are placed in Zamzam itself, with the well ultimately being buried by the leader of the Jurhum.
He purportedly had a divine precognition about the well at some point in his life. Ultimately arguing that due to the well's history supposedly being related to what they perceive to have been the true religion of the peoples of Iran , the Islamisation of Iran is to be understood and framed as a rediscovery.
One of which is claimed to have been initially built on orders from and named after Abbas , founder of the Abbasid dynasty himself. He describes the well's operators pouring the water drawn alternately between the pools using waterskins.
