124 - The Virtue of Prayer in the Sacred Mosque (al-Masjid al-Haram)

2897 - ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī and Muḥammad ibn al-Muthannā informed us, both saying: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, from Mūsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh(1) al-Juhanī, who said: I heard Nāfiʿ say:

ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to us, saying: I heard the Messenger of Allāh, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "A prayer in my mosque is better than a thousand prayers in any other mosque, except the Sacred Mosque." Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān said: I know of no one who narrated this ḥadīth from Nāfiʿ, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, other than Mūsā al-Juhanī(2), and Ibn Jurayj and others differed with him.

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= Also narrated by Aḥmad (16587), (23176), and (27461), from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, from Ibn Jurayj, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Yazīd, that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṭāriq ibn ʿAlqamah informed him, from his paternal uncle, with it (the same wording). And following the first and second narrations, he said: Rawḥ said: from his father, and Ibn Bakr said: from his mother.

Al-Bukhārī said in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr 5/298, in the biography of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṭāriq ibn ʿAlqamah, regarding the narration "from his paternal uncle": it is not authentic.

Al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (8213) via the path of ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī (the compiler's shaykh), with it, except that he said: that he said: "from his father," instead of "from his mother."

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar said in al-Iṣābah 5/387-388 (biography of Ṭāriq ibn ʿAlqamah, father of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān): This is an error on the part of whoever is below ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī in the chain. End quote. Al-Ḥāfiẓ cited the various versions of the ḥadīth, then said: This is a discrepancy that renders the ḥadīth defective.

Al-Sindī said: His statement: "a place in the house of Yaʿlā..." — he pointed in the chapter heading to the fact that the point is that the House (the Kaʿbah) could be seen from that place.

(1) In the margins of (K), (M), and (H): ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. (And he is also called by that name.)
(2) Its chain is authentic, and it is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (3866).

Also narrated by Aḥmad (5155) from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Qaṭṭān, with this chain.

Also narrated by Muslim (1395) via the path of Ibn Abī Zāʾidah, and Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in al-Tamhīd 6/29 via the path of Abū Muʿāwiyah, both from Mūsā al-Juhanī, with it. And in Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr's version there is an addition: "for it is better than it by a hundred prayers." =