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(17). 3147. Zirr bin Hubaish said: "I said to Hudhaifah bin Al-Yamān: 'Did the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ perform Ṣalāt in Bait Al-Maḥdīs?' He said: 'No.' I said: 'But he did.' He said: 'You say that, O bald one! Based upon what do you say that?' I said: 'Based upon the Qur'an, (the Judge) between you and I is the Qur'an.' So Hudhaifah said: 'Whoever argues using the Qur'an, then he has indeed succeeded.'" (One of the narrators) Sufyān said: "He means: 'He has indeed proven'" – and perhaps he (Sufyān) said: "He triumphed." He (Zirr) said: "Glorified is He Who took His slave for a journey by night from Al-Masjid Al-Harām to Al-Masjid Al-Aqṣa."[1] He
(Hudhaifah) said: 'Do you see (this proves that) he (ﷺ) performed Salāt in it?' I said: 'No.' He said: 'If he had performed Salāt in it, then it would have been required upon you that you perform Salāt in it, just as it is required that you perform Salāt in Al-Masjid Al-Haram.' Hudhaifah said: 'The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ was brought a beast with a long back – stretching out like this – one stride of it, is as far as his vision. So, the two of them remained upon the back of Al-Burāq until they saw Paradise and the Fire, and all of what has been prepared for the Hereafter, then they returned back to where they began.' He said: 'They say that he was fettered, but for what? Because he might flee? The Knower of the unseen and the witnessed subdued him.'" (Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Sahih.
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[1] Al-Isrā' 17:1.
Commentary
Although there is no clear evidence in Sūrat Al-Isrā' that the Prophet ﷺ offered prayer in the holy mosque in Jerusalem, which is why Hudhaifah denied it; yet the narrations prove that the Prophet offered the prayer in Al-Masjid Al-Aqṣā', the clear evidence of tying the Al-Burāq to the stone also exists in the narrations.
