al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 1612
✧ Virtue of the Prophet's Mosque
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الْحَارِثُ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَ، ثَنَا سَلَمَةُ بْنُ وَرْدَانَ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا سَعِيدِ بْنَ الْمُعَلَّى، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ عَلِيًّا ؓ يَقُولُ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ -:
صَلَاةٌ فِي مَسْجِدِي خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ صَلَاةٍ فِيمَا سِوَاهُ مِنَ الْمَسَاجِدِ، إِلَّا الْمَسْجِدَ الْحَرَامَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿUmar
- Salamah b. and Rdān
- Abū Saʿīd b. al-Muʿallá
- ʿAlī
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
✧ A prayer in my mosque is better than a thousand prayers in any other mosque except the Sacred Mosque.
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- Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī
سلمة بن وردان ضعيف ولم يسمع من علي
machine translationSalamah b. Wardān is weak (ḍaʿīf), and he did not hear from ʿAlī.
in المطالب العالية, p. 1612 - ابن عدي
في متون بعض ما يرويه سلمة بن وردان أشياء منكرة ويخالف سائر الناس
machine translationIn the texts of some of what Salamah b. Wardān narrates there are objectionable (munkar) things, and he contradicts the rest of the people.
in المطالب العالية, p. 1612
Other narrations of this report
Sunan an-Nasa'i 2899Musnad Ahmad 10275Musnad Ahmad 15271Musnad Ahmad 26826al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 14890al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 3871
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةسمعت
- acceptable (maqbūl)أَبَا سَعِيدِ بْنَ الْمُعَلَّىمقبولسمعت
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. 156 AH, or 157 AHسَلَمَةُ بْنُ وَرْدَانَضعيفحدثنا
- Abandoned (matrūk), despite his vast knowledged. 207 AH, or shortly after itمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُمَرَمتروك مع سعة علمهحدثنا
- d. 279 AH or 282 AHالْحَارِثُ
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Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.