right|thumb|A cedar in Lebanon (Lebanon's sacred tree); Translations made through modern Arabic, unaware of the cultural background and etymological development of the words and symbols that make up the language of the Quran, can turn "Sidrat al-Muntaha" into the lote tree.
thumb|Wild [[Ziziphus spina-christi (lote tree) in Iran]]
The Sidrat al-Muntaha () in Islamic tradition is a large Cedrus or lote tree (Ziziphus spina-christi) that marks the utmost boundary in the seventh heaven, where the knowledge of the angels ends. During the Isra' and Mi'raj, when Muhammad entered Heaven alive, Muhammad is said to have travelled with the Archangel Gabriel to the tree where Gabriel stopped. Beyond the tree, God instructed Muhammad about the salah (daily prayers).
The Lote Tree of the Furthest Boundary is also used to refer to the Manifestation of God several times in Bahá’í literature.
Quran
The tree is also referred to in Sura 53 verse 14–16, Sura 34 verse 16 and Sura 56, verse 28.
Sura 53, verses 11-18 reads:
Sura 34, verses 15-17 reads:
Sura 56, verses 27-34 reads:
Meaning
thumb|right|180px|A page of [[Bostan (book)|Bustan by the Persian poet Saadi Shirazi telling the story of the lote tree]]
A tafsir entitled Tafsīr al-karīm al-raḥman fī tafsīr kalām al-manān by the Salafi scholar Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di (d. 1957), while commenting on said: