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340. Al-Barā' bin 'Āzib narrated: "When Allāh's Messenger ﷺ arrived in Al-Madinah, he faced Bait Al-Maqdis in Ṣalāt for sixteen or seventeen months. Allāh's Messenger ﷺ longed to face the direction of the Ka'bah, so Allāh Most High revealed: Verily! We have seen the turning of your face towards the heaven. Surely We shall turn you to a Qiblah that shall please you. So turn your face in the direction of Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām."[1]
So he faced the Ka'bah, and he liked that. A man performed the Ṣaṛ prayer with him, then passed by some of the Anṣār who were
bowing in Ṣalāt for ʾAṣr while facing Bait Al-Maqdis." "He told them that he had performed Ṣalāt with Allāh's Messenger ﷺ and that he had faced the direction of the Ka'bah, so they changed (their direction) while they were bowing."
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Ibn 'Umar, Ibn 'Abbās, 'Umārah bin Aws, 'Amr bin 'Awf Al-Muzanī and Anas. (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū 'Eisā said: The Ḥadīth of Al-Barā' is a Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ Ḥadīth.
It has also been narrated by Sufyān Ath-Thawrī from Abū Ishāq.
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Footnotes
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[1] Al-Baqarah 2:144.
Commentary
1. This incidence is a proof of a single report being evidence that all the companions acknowledged the former rule to be abolished with just the information being passed by a single person.
2. From twelve Rabi' Al-Awwal until twelve Rajab are sixteen months; according to one saying, the Qiblah was changed in Sha'bān.
