740 — Jubārah ibn al-Mughallis narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Bajalī narrated to us, from Layth, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I see that after me you will adorn your mosques with lofty structures, just as the Jews adorned their churches, and just as the Christians adorned their places of worship." (1)

741 — Jubārah ibn al-Mughallis narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, from ʿAmr ibn Maymūn

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= It was also recorded by Abū Dāwūd (449) and al-Nasāʾī 2/32 via the chain of Ḥammād ibn Salamah, with this same chain of transmission. It is found in al-Musnad (12379) and Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (1614). It was also recorded by Abū Dāwūd (449) from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khuzāʿī, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Qatādah, from Anas, with the same wording.

(1) Its chain is weak due to the weakness of Jubārah ibn al-Mughallis, and he erred in both the chain and the text of this ḥadīth. For it was narrated by Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān in the collection of Abū Yaʿlā (2454), and by al-Ṭabarānī (13001), and by al-Thawrī also in his collection (13002) — both of them from Layth — namely Ibn Abī Sulaym — from Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm, from Ibn ʿAbbās, raised to the Prophet, with the wording: "I was not commanded to raise mosques to great heights." And Layth — although he had a poor memory — was corroborated on this chain and text. For it was recorded by ʿAbd al-Razzāq (5127), Abū Dāwūd (448), Ibn Ḥibbān (1615), al-Ṭabarānī (13000) and (13003), al-Bayhaqī 2/438–439, and al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (463), via two paths from Abū Fazārah Rāshid ibn Kaysān, with this same chain and text. And they added after it: Ibn ʿAbbās said: "You will surely ornament them as the Jews and Christians ornamented theirs." We say: This chain is authentic. See also Fatḥ al-Bārī 1/540.