Gradient of an harmonic function

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Let $ M $ be a Riemannian manifold and let $ f $ be an harmonic function on $ M $.

By Unique continuation theorem we can assert that if $ \nabla f = 0 $ on an open subset $ \Omega \subset M $ then $ f $ is constant on $ M $.

Now consider a non constant harmonic function $ f $. What can we say about the set of zeros of $ \nabla f $?

By what i say above this set has empty interior surely. Now it is natural to ask if this set has a zero measure. Is it true?

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