Is the prayer in the mosque adjacent to the Haram equal in reward to the prayer in the Haram?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, is the prayer in the mosque adjacent to the Haram equal to the prayer in the Haram, or similar to it?
The Shaykh : Yes, the prayer in the Prophet’s Mosque is better than a thousand prayers in any other place, except the Sacred Mosque.
And the mosques adjacent to the Prophet’s Mosque do not have the reward of the Prophet’s Mosque.
As for Makkah, the scholars have differed: does the reward of the mosque containing the Ka'bah apply to the other mosques, or not?
The correct view is that it does not apply, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said:Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 12:1026, and his statement: is explicit that the one in which this preference, meaning one hundred thousand prayers, is found is the mosque of the Ka'bah. And it is known that if you prayed in a mosque in al-'Aziziyah, people would not say this is the mosque of the Ka'bah.
But the prayer in the Haram is better than the prayer in the non-sacred area, meaning: if you prayed in the mosque of al-'Aziziyah or in al-'Uwlaya or the like, it is better than if you prayed in a mosque in Riyadh or the like. The evidence for this is that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) descended at al-Hudaybiyyah, and part of it was from the Haram and part from the non-sacred area, whenever the time for prayer came, he would enter the Haram and pray in it. Yes.
The questioner : Your Eminence, the Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Huh?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Fine, there is no harm.
The Shaykh : Yes, the prayer in the Prophet’s Mosque is better than a thousand prayers in any other place, except the Sacred Mosque.
And the mosques adjacent to the Prophet’s Mosque do not have the reward of the Prophet’s Mosque.
As for Makkah, the scholars have differed: does the reward of the mosque containing the Ka'bah apply to the other mosques, or not?
The correct view is that it does not apply, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said:
A prayer in this mosque of mine is better than a thousand prayers in any other mosque, except the Mosque of the Ka'bah.
صلاة في مسجدي هذا أفضل من ألف صلاة فيما سواه إلا مسجد الكعبةexcept the Mosque of the Ka'bah
إلا مسجد الكعبةBut the prayer in the Haram is better than the prayer in the non-sacred area, meaning: if you prayed in the mosque of al-'Aziziyah or in al-'Uwlaya or the like, it is better than if you prayed in a mosque in Riyadh or the like. The evidence for this is that when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) descended at al-Hudaybiyyah, and part of it was from the Haram and part from the non-sacred area, whenever the time for prayer came, he would enter the Haram and pray in it. Yes.
The questioner : Your Eminence, the Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Huh?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Fine, there is no harm.