Sunan Abi Dawud 454

Musa ibn Ismaʿil narrated to us: Hammad ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Abu al-Tayyah, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The mosque’s site was a walled plot belonging to Banu al-Najjar, containing cultivated land, date palms, and the graves of polytheists. The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Set a price for it for me.’ They replied: ‘We seek no price for it.’ The date palms were cut down, the cultivated land leveled, and the graves of the polytheists exhumed. He then related the rest of the report, saying ‘forgive’ in place of ‘support.’ Musa said: ʿAbd al-Warith narrated a similar report to us. ʿAbd al-Warith used the word khirab (ruins), and claimed that he had supplied Hammad with this report.