ар-Рабада

thumb|right|A Jar from Al-Rabadha Al-Rabatha (Arabic الربذة) is a settlement in Saudi Arabia located some 200 km to the north-east of Medina on the pilgrim route from Kufa to Mecca, known as Darb Zubaydah. The archaeological excavations directed by the King Saud University, have shown that, Al-Rabadha yields important information for the early phases of Islamic culture. The town is also known as the place Abu Dharr al-Ghifari spent his last years and died at.