Category: Q n A

When the verses of Surat “Al-Baqara”‘ about the usury Riba were revealed, the Prophet (ﷺ) went to the
mosque and recited them in front of the people and then banned the trade of alcohol.

Abu Huraira said, “A man or a woman used to clean the mosque.” (A
sub-narrator said, ‘Most probably a woman..’) Then he narrated the
Hadith of the Prophet

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “The angels keep on asking Allah’s forgiveness for anyone of you, as long as he
is at his Musalla (praying place) and he does not pass wind (Hadath). They say, ‘O Allah! Forgive
him, O Allah! be Merciful to him.”

“The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Last night a big demon (afreet) from the Jinns
came to me and wanted to interrupt my prayers (or said something
similar) but Allah enabled me to overpower him. I wanted to fasten him
to one of the pillars of the mosque so that all of you could See him
in the morning but I remembered the statement of my brother Solomon
(as stated in Quran): My Lord! Forgive me and bestow on me a kingdom
such as shall not belong to anybody after me (38.35).” The sub
narrator Rauh said, “He (the demon) was dismissed humiliated.”

In the lifetime of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) the mosque was built of adobes, its roof of the leaves of date-palms
and its pillars of the stems of date-palms. Abu Bakr did not alter it. `Umar expanded it on the same
pattern as it was in the lifetime of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) by using adobes, leaves of date-palms and changing
the pillars into wooden ones. `Uthman changed it by expanding it to a great extent and built its walls
with engraved stones and lime and made its pillars of engraved stones and its roof of teak wood.

The Prophet (ﷺ) sent some horsemen to Najd and they brought a man called Thumama bin Uthal from
Bani Hanifa. They fastened him to one of the pillars of the mosque. The Prophet (ﷺ) came and ordered
them to release him. He went to a (garden of) date-palms near the mosque, took a bath and entered
the mosque again and said, “None has the right to be worshipped but Allah and Muhammad is His
Apostle” (i.e. he embraced Islam).

Ibn `Abbas said to me and to his son `Ali, “Go to Abu Sa`id and listen to what he narrates.” So we
went and found him in a garden looking after it. He picked up his Rida’, wore it and sat down and
started narrating till the topic of the construction of the mosque reached. He said, “We were carrying
one adobe at a time while `Ammar was carrying two. The Prophet (ﷺ) saw him and started removing the
dust from his body and said, “May Allah be Merciful to `Ammar. He will be inviting them (i.e. his
murderers, the rebellious group) to Paradise and they will invite him to Hell-fire.” `Ammar said, “I
seek refuge with Allah from affliction.”

On the day of Al-Khandaq (battle of the Trench’ the medial arm vein of Sa`d bin Mu`ad [??] was
injured and the Prophet (ﷺ) pitched a tent in the mosque to look after him. There was another tent for
Banu Ghaffar in the mosque and the blood started flowing from Sa`d’s tent to the tent of Bani Ghaffar.
They shouted, “O occupants of the tent! What is coming from you to us?” They found that Sa`d’
wound was bleeding profusely and Sa`d died in his tent.

Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) sent someone to a woman telling her to “Order her slave, carpenter, to prepare a
wooden pulpit for him to sit on.”

I complained to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) that I was sick. He told me to perform the Tawaf behind the people
while riding. So I did so and Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) was praying beside the Ka`ba and reciting the Sura
starting with “Wat-tur wa kitabin mastur.”