Abu Ishaq reported: I heard al-Bara' saying: We prayed with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) (with our faces) towards Bait-ul-Maqdis for sixteen months or seventeen months. Then we were made to change (our direction) towards the Ka'ba.
Read More..Ibn 'Umar reported: As the people were praying at Quba' a man came to them and said: It has been revealed to file Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) during the night and he has been directed to turn towards the Ka'ba. So turn towards it. Their faces were towards Syria and they turned round towards Ka'ba.
Read More..Ibn 'Umar reported: As the people were engaged in the morning prayer a man came to them. The rest of the hadith is the same.
Read More..Anas reported: The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to pray towards Bait-ul-Maqdis, that it was revealed (to him): Indeed We see the turning of the face to heaven, wherefore We shall assuredly cause thee to turn towards Qibla which shall please thee. So turn thy face towards the sacred Mosque (Ka'ba) (ii. 144). A person from Banu Salama was going; (he found the people) in ruk'u (while) praying the dawn prayer and they had said one rak'ah. He said in a loud voice: Listen! the Qibla has been changed and they turned towards (the new) Qibla (Ka'ba) in that very state.
Read More..A'isha reported: Umm Habiba and Umm Salama made a mention before the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) of a church which they had seen in Abyssinia and which had pictures in it. The Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: When a pious person amongst them (among the religious groups) dies they build a place of worship on his grave, and then decorate it with such pictures. They would be the worst of creatures on the Day of judgment in the sight of Allah.
Read More..A'isha reported: They (some Companions of the Holy Prophet) were conversing with one another in the presence of the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) (during his last) illness. Umm Salama and Umm Habiba made a mention of the church and then (the hadith was) narrated.
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