Moosaa | -- 23-11-2010 @ 7:26 PM | ||||||||
(Bayt al-Maqdis) in Jerusalem worth 50,000 Prayers Offered elsewhere? (or 5,000? or What?) Regarding what is being circulated on the internet:
The hadeeth regarding prayer in bayt al-maqdis (al-masjid al-aqsaa) being valued at 50,000 times the value of prayer elsewhere is MUNKAR (unauthentic, having a weak chain and a contradictory wording). it was collected by ibn maajah in his Sunan (#1413). in the chain is abul-khattaab ad-dimashqee, whose reliablilty as a narrator was unfounded. ath-thahabee mentioned this is his bio in meezaan al-i'tidaal, and said this hadeeth is very munkar. furthermore, al-albaanee called the chain dha'eef in his verdicts on sunan ibn maajah. the wording is also a bit different from what has been quoted above. mention of al-aqsaa is actually 50,000x not 5,000x. it says that prayer in the prophet's masjid (sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) is valued at 50,000x prayer elsewhere, so its nakaarah (objectionable wording) is in more than one place. (since it is authentically established at 1000x) it is not found in at-tirmithee or any of the other six books. as a a benefit, hadeeths found only in ibn maajah have a high probability of being weak, since his book was the least authentic of the six, and the hadeeth becomes very questionable when only he choose to collect it. al-boosayree listed this hadeeth in his collection of hadeeths found exclusively in ibn maajah (meaning not in the other 5 main books), confirming that it is not found in jaami' at-tirmithee. maybe the one who referenced it made a mistake, or maybe he meant another book by at-tirmithee like al-'ilal, or maybe he meant another tirmithee, like al-hakeem at-tirmithee, and Allaah knows best. On the other hand, the hadeeth that establishes the value of prayer in al-masjid al-aqsaa being valued at 250x prayer elsewhere is saheeh according to the conditions of al-bukhaaree and muslim, as judged by al-haakim in al-mustadrak, in kitaab al-fitan (4/509). ath-thahabee remained silent about it, as did muqbil al-waadi'ee in tatabbu al-owhaam (4/680). ibn at-turkmaanee called it saheeh in his notes to the mustadrak. it was relayed by aboo tharr (may Allaah be pleased with him), and the wording is:
so 1000 / 4 = 250 (i'm assuming the narrations about prayer in the Prophet's Masjid being 1000x better than elsewhere are known to you) and Allaah knows best. Moosaa ibn John Richardson ******************** ıııııı ııııı ıııııı ıııı ıı ıı ııı ııı ııı ı
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