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695. It was narrated from Abû Salamah bin 'Abdur-Rahmân and Abû 'Abdullâh Al-Agharr, the freed slave of the Juhanîs – better of whom were companions of Abû Hurairah – that they heard Abû Hurairah say: "One prayer in the Masjid of the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ is better than one thousand prayers offered in other mosques, except Al-Masjid Al-Harâm, for the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ was the last of the prophets and his Masjid was the last of the Masjids." Abû Salamah and Abû 'Abdullâh said: "We do not doubt that Abû Hurairah was speaking on the basis of the Hadîth of the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ, but we could not verify that Hadîth with Abû Hurairah before he died. Then we remembered that and we blamed one another for not having spoken to Abû Hurairah about that, so that he could attribute it to the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ if he had indeed heard it from him. While we were arguing, we went and sat down with 'Abdullâh bin Ibrâhîm bin Qâriz, and we told him about the Hadîth and how we had been negligent in not checking it with Abû Hurairah. 'Abdullâh bin Ibrâhîm said to us: 'I bear witness that I heard Abû Hurairah say: The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: I am the last of the prophets and it is the last of the Masjids.'" (Sahîh)
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Since Allāh's Messenger ﷺ is the last Messenger, his mosque became the last mosque to have been built by a prophet himself.
