This paper will address issues of sacred geography in the narrative sources relied upon by Ibn 'Asakir in his massive compilation, *Tarikh Madinat Dimashq*. While scholars have addressed Ibn Asakir's use of geographical sources for his topographical introduction to this text, this paper will focus explicitly on our earliest narratives in the "construction" of sacred landscapes in the tradition of "Religious Merits" literature, the fada'il genre. As such, it will also touch on the trajectory of fada'il in Islamic historiography, and that genre's relationship to tarikh in post-Abbasid versus Umayyad periods