The Book of the Masjids

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim narrated to us: Aidh ibn Habib narrated to us: Humayd At-Tawil narrated to us from Anas ibn Malik, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ saw some sputum on the qiblah side of the mosque. He became so angry that his face reddened. A woman from the Ansar stood up, scraped it away, and put khaluq perfume in its place. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'How excellent this is.'

Sulayman ibn Ubaydullah Al-Ghaylani, a man from Basra, informed us: Abu Amir narrated to us: Sulayman narrated to us from Rabi‘ah, from Abdul-Malik ibn Sa‘id, who said: I heard Abu Humayd and Abu Usayd say that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'When one of you enters the mosque, let him say: O Allah, open for me the gates of Your mercy. And when he leaves, let him say: O Allah, I ask You for Your bounty.'

Qutaybah narrated to us: Malik narrated to us from Amir ibn Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr, from Amr ibn Sulaym, from Abu Qatadah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'When one of you enters the mosque, let him pray two rak‘ahs before sitting down.'

Sulayman ibn Dawud narrated to us: Ibn Wahb narrated to us from Yunus. Ibn Shihab said: Abdur-Rahman ibn Ka‘b ibn Malik informed me that Abdullah ibn Ka‘b said: I heard Ka‘b ibn Malik recount his story of staying behind from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during the campaign to Tabuk. He said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived in the morning. Whenever he returned from a journey, he would begin at the mosque and pray two rak‘ahs there, then sit with the people. When he had done this, those who had stayed behind came and began offering excuses and swearing oaths to him. They were a little more than eighty men. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ accepted what they declared, accepted their pledges, and sought forgiveness for them, leaving what was hidden in their hearts to Allah, Mighty and Sublime. Then I came. When I greeted him, he smiled with the smile of an angry man and said, 'Come here.' I came and sat before him. He said, 'What kept you behind? Had you not acquired your mount?' I said, 'Messenger of Allah, if I were sitting before anyone else among the people of this world, I would think I could escape his displeasure. I have a gift for argument, but by Allah, I know that if I tell you a lie today to please you, Allah will soon make you displeased with me. If I tell you the truth, which will make you angry with me, I hope for Allah's forgiveness. By Allah, I had never been stronger or more at ease than when I stayed behind you.' The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'As for this man, he has spoken the truth. Get up and wait until Allah decides your case.' I got up and left. This is an abridged report.

Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abd Al-Hakam ibn A‘yan informed us: Shuayb narrated to us: Al-Layth narrated to us: Khalid narrated to us from Ibn Abi Hilal, who said: Marwan ibn Uthman informed me that Ubayd ibn Hunayn told him, from Abu Sa‘id ibn Al-Mu‘alla, who said: In the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, we used to go out early to the marketplace and pass by the mosque, where we would pray.

Qutaybah narrated to us from Malik, from Abu Az-Zinad, from Al-Araj, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'The angels continue to invoke blessings for one of you as long as he remains in the place where he prayed and has not invalidated his ablution, saying: O Allah, forgive him; O Allah, have mercy on him.'

Qutaybah narrated to us: Bakr ibn Mudar narrated to us from Ayyash ibn Uqbah, that Yahya ibn Maymun told him: I heard Sahl As-Sa‘idi, may Allah be pleased with him, say: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, 'Whoever remains in the mosque waiting for the prayer is in a state of prayer.'

Amr ibn Ali narrated to us: Yahya narrated to us from Ash‘ath, from Al-Hasan, from Abdullah ibn Mughaffal, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade praying in the camel enclosures.

Al-Hasan ibn Isma‘il ibn Sulayman informed us: Hushaym narrated to us: Sayyar narrated to us from Yazid Al-Faqir, from Jabir ibn Abdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'The earth has been made for me a place of prayer and a means of purification. Wherever a man of my community is when the time for prayer comes, he may pray.'

Sa‘id ibn Yahya ibn Sa‘id Al-Umawi informed us: My father narrated to us: Yahya ibn Sa‘id narrated to us from Ishaq ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Talhah, from Anas ibn Malik, that Umm Sulaym asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to come and pray in her house so that she could make the place where he prayed a prayer area. He came to her. She took a reed mat, sprinkled it with water, and he prayed on it; they prayed with him.

Isma‘il ibn Mas‘ud informed us: Khalid narrated to us from Shu‘bah, from Sulayman (meaning Ash-Shaybani), from Abdullah ibn Shaddad, from Maymunah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to pray on a khumrah.

Qutaybah narrated to us: Yaqub ibn Abd Ar-Rahman narrated to us: Abu Hazim ibn Dinar told me that some men came to Sahl ibn Sad As-Saidi, disputing what wood the pulpit was made from, and asked him about it. He said, By Allah, I know what it was made from. I saw it on the first day it was set up and the first day the Messenger of Allah sat on it. The Messenger of Allah sent word to a woman, whose name Sahl mentioned, telling her to have her carpenter servant make him some wooden steps on which he could sit when speaking to the people. She instructed him, and he made them from tamarisk wood from Al-Ghabah. He brought them, and she sent word to the Messenger of Allah, who ordered that they be placed here. I then saw the Messenger of Allah climb up, pray on it, and say the takbir while on it. He bowed while on it, then descended backward and prostrated at the base of the pulpit. Then he went back up. When he had finished, he turned to the people and said: People, I did this only so that you would follow me in prayer and learn how I pray.

Qutaybah ibn Said narrated to us from Malik, from Amr ibn Yahya, from Said ibn Yasar, from Ibn Umar, who said: I saw the Messenger of Allah praying on a donkey while heading toward Khaybar.

Muhammad ibn Mansur informed us: Ismail ibn Umar narrated to us: Dawud ibn Qays narrated to us from Muhammad ibn Ajlan, from Yahya ibn Sa‘id, from Anas ibn Malik, that he saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ praying while riding a donkey toward Khaybar, with the qiblah behind him. Abu Abd Ar-Rahman (An-Nasa'i) said: We know of no one who corroborated Amr ibn Yahya's statement that he prayed on a donkey. The correct status of the report of Yahya ibn Sa‘id from Anas is mawquf. Allah, Glorified and Exalted, knows best.