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The tomb on the rise south of Kalles hill, west of Kilis, is thought to have been built in the second half of the fourteenth century. The man buried here is also known as Şeyh Muhammed Rittali and Şeyh Muhammed Arabi. The building is square in plan with four arches and a pointed dome, with one window each on the east and west and two on the south, and inside is a wooden cenotaph covered with a green cloth.
There is no inscription on the cenotaph identifying who lies beneath it. The identification rests on Evliya Çelebi, who wrote that west of the city there is a great lodge where a man famous as Şeyh Muhammed Arabi and Rittali, one of the Companions, lies buried. According to that tradition he held the office of distributing dates in war and in peace, came to this region with the Muslim army under Ebu Ubeyde bin Cerrah during the caliphate of Omar, and was killed here in 639.
