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The Places InWhich Prayer Is Not Allowed

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Darussalam · Volume 1

2. THE BOOK OFAṢ-ṢALĀT (THE PRAYER)

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الحديث: 490 ¦ الجزء: 1 ¦ الصفحة: 132

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490. Abū Ṣāliḥ Al-Ghifārī narratedthat 'Alī once passed through (thecity of) Babylon in one of histravels. The Mu'adh-dhin (caller toprayer) came to him and called theAdhān for 'Aṣr. When he hademerged (from the city), hecommanded the Mu'adh-dhin tocall the Iqāmah. After completing(the prayer), he said: "My beloved,peace be upon him (meaning, theProphet ﷺ) prohibited me frompraying in a graveyard, and heprohibited me from praying inBabylon, for it is a cursed (land)." (Da'if)

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490 - حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ لَهِيعَةَ، وَيَحْيَى بْنُ أَزْهَرَ، عَنْ عَمَّارِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ الْمُرَادِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي صَالِحٍ الْغِفَارِيِّ، أَنَّ عَلِيًّا رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، مَرَّ بِبَابِلَ وَهُوَ يَسِيرُ فَجَاءَهُ الْمُؤَذِّنُ يُؤَذِّنُ بِصَلَاةِ الْعَصْرِ، فَلَمَّا بَرَزَ مِنْهَا أَمَرَ الْمُؤَذِّنَ، فَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ، فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ قَالَ: «إِنَّ حَبِيبِي صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَهَانِي أَنْ أُصَلِّيَ فِي الْمَقْبَرَةِ، وَنَهَانِي أَنْ أُصَلِّيَ فِي أَرْضِ بَابِلَ فَإِنَّهَا مَلْعُونَةٌ»،

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This is a distinctive characteristic of the Muslim Ummah, that the whole earth is made pure for them, and they are allowed to prostrate anywhere on it, and that pure earth is a means of purification according to other narrations. Muslims have been granted the ease of offering the prayer wherever they might be on the earth, except for a few places which have been mentioned in various narrations.