The Book of Mosques and Places of Prayer-01a
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The reciter: Abu al-Kamil al-Juhdri narrated to us, saying: Abd al-Wahid narrated to us, saying: al-A'mash narrated to us. He said: And Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Abu Kuraib narrated to us, saying: Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us from al-A'mash from Ibrahim al-Taymi from his father from Abu Dharr, who said: I said: Mishkat al-Masabih 753.
The Shaykh : In my copy it is "awwala" (first), in your copy is it "awwal" (first)? The well-known form is "awwal", but here it is in the accusative case. His statement: "awwal." In some manuscripts, as in al-Mishkat, it says: Mulla Ali said: "awwala," without tanween (dual vowel). In my copy, the alif-lam is ambiguous; he says in my copy it is disconnected from the genitive... The intended meaning is: the first of everything. It is permissible to open it as an accusative—meaning in the accusative case—on the basis of adverbial usage and its not being directed to the measure of the verb or the descriptive, like His saying, the Exalted:[Al-Anfal 8:42], and the well-known form is "awwal" without tanween. Yes.
The important thing is, he said.
The reciter:Sahih Muslim 520a And in the narration of Abu al-Kamil .
The Shaykh : This hadith was considered difficult by some scholars, because the one who built the Sacred Mosque, which is the Ka'bah, was Ibrahim (peace be upon him), and it is well known that the one who built the House of Jerusalem was Sulayman, and between them is a long period, not forty years.
And the answer to that is to say: Sulayman's building of the mosque was a renovation, and this interpretation is necessary, because reality contradicts the idea that there were forty years between them, so the interpretation is necessitated in this manner.
which mosque was set up first in the earth
يا رسول الله أي مسجد وضع في الأرض أولThe Shaykh : In my copy it is "awwala" (first), in your copy is it "awwal" (first)? The well-known form is "awwal", but here it is in the accusative case. His statement: "awwal." In some manuscripts, as in al-Mishkat, it says: Mulla Ali said: "awwala," without tanween (dual vowel). In my copy, the alif-lam is ambiguous; he says in my copy it is disconnected from the genitive... The intended meaning is: the first of everything. It is permissible to open it as an accusative—meaning in the accusative case—on the basis of adverbial usage and its not being directed to the measure of the verb or the descriptive, like His saying, the Exalted:
and the caravan was lower [in position] than you
والركب أسفل منكمThe important thing is, he said.
The reciter:
Abu Dharr reported: I said: Messenger of Allah, which mosque was set up first on the earth? He said: Al-Masjid al-Haram (the sacred). I (again) said: Then which next? He said: It was the Masjid Aqsa. I (again) said: How long the space of time (between their setting up)? He (the Holy Prophet) said: It was forty years. And whenever the time comes for prayer, pray there, for that is a mosque
قال : قلت : يا رسول الله أي مسجد وضع في الأرض أول قال: المسجد الحرام قلت ثم أي قال المسجد الأقصى قلت كم بينهما قال أربعون سنة وأينما أدركتك الصلاة فصل فهو مسجدThen wherever the prayer overtakes you, pray it, for it is a mosque.
ثم حيثما أدركتك الصلاة فصله فإنه مسجدThe Shaykh : This hadith was considered difficult by some scholars, because the one who built the Sacred Mosque, which is the Ka'bah, was Ibrahim (peace be upon him), and it is well known that the one who built the House of Jerusalem was Sulayman, and between them is a long period, not forty years.
And the answer to that is to say: Sulayman's building of the mosque was a renovation, and this interpretation is necessary, because reality contradicts the idea that there were forty years between them, so the interpretation is necessitated in this manner.