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Sahih Muslim 520b (Book 5, Hadith 2) #8715
Prayer Anywhere

SUMMARY: The hadith is about the importance of prayer and how it can be done anywhere.

Ibrahim b. Yazid al-Tayml reported: I used to read the Qur'an with my father in the vestibule (before the door of the mosque). When I recited the ayat (verses) concerning prostration, he prostrated himself. I said to him: Father, do you prostrate yourself in the path? He said: I heard Abu Dharr saying: I asked the Messenger of Allah about the mosque that was first set up on the earth. He said: Masjid Harim. I said: Then which next? He said: The Masjid al-Aqsa. I said: How long is the space of time between the two? He said: Forty years. He (then) further said: The earth is a mosque for you, so wherever you are at the time of prayer, pray there.
حَدَّثَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُجْرٍ السَّعْدِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُسْهِرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الأَعْمَشُ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ التَّيْمِيِّ، قَالَ كُنْتُ أَقْرَأُ عَلَى أَبِي الْقُرْآنَ فِي السُّدَّةِ فَإِذَا قَرَأْتُ السَّجْدَةَ سَجَدَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ يَا أَبَتِ أَتَسْجُدُ فِي الطَّرِيقِ قَالَ إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ أَبَا ذَرٍّ يَقُولُ سَأَلْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَوَّلِ مَسْجِدٍ وُضِعَ فِي الأَرْضِ قَالَ ‏"‏ الْمَسْجِدُ الْحَرَامُ ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قُلْتُ ثُمَّ أَىٌّ قَالَ ‏"‏ الْمَسْجِدُ الأَقْصَى ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قُلْتُ كَمْ بَيْنَهُمَا قَالَ ‏"‏ أَرْبَعُونَ عَامًا ثُمَّ الأَرْضُ لَكَ مَسْجِدٌ فَحَيْثُمَا أَدْرَكَتْكَ الصَّلاَةُ فَصَلِّ

TOPICS
prayer  *  mosque  *  prostration  *  earth

QUICK LESSONS:
Praying whenever it's time for salat no matter where one is located

EXPLANATIONS:
This hadith speaks to the importance of prayer in Islam, and how it can be done anywhere on earth. It was narrated by Ibrahim b. Yazid al-Tayml, who said that he used to read the Qur'an with his father in a vestibule before the door of a mosque. When he recited verses concerning prostration, his father prostrated himself. He asked his father why he was doing this in a path instead of inside the mosque, and his father replied that he heard Abu Dharr saying that Prophet Muhammad said that Masjid Harim was the first mosque set up on earth followed by Masjid al-Aqsa forty years later, and then added that “the earth is a mosque for you” meaning wherever you are at prayer time you should pray there. This hadith teaches us about the importance of prayer as well as its flexibility; we can pray wherever we are when it is time for salat without having to go to a specific place like a mosque or church every time we want to pray.

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