Book 89: The mosques which are on the way to Al-Madina and the places where the Prophet (pbuh) had offered Salat (Prayers)
Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 483
Mūsá ibn ʿUqbah said: ‘I saw Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh seeking out [specific] places on the road and offering Prayer there. He narrated that his father would offer Prayer in these places and had seen the Prophet (saw) praying at those places. And Nāfiʿ related to me on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar (r.a) that he would offer Prayer at these places. I inquired with Sālim, and to my knowledge, he concurred with Nāfiʿ concerning all these places, but they differed regarding a mosque at Sharaf al-Rawḥāʾ.’
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 484
ʿAbd Allāh [ibn ʿUmar] (r.a) informed Nāfiʿ that when the Messenger of Allāh (saw) would go out for ʿUmrah, and during his Ḥajj, he would dismount at Dhū al-Ḥulaifah under a samur tree, at the location of the mosque in Dhū al-Ḥulaifah. Whenever he would return from an expedition, or from Ḥajj or ʿUmrah, while travelling along this road, he would descend to the midst of the valley. When he would emerge from the bottom of the valley, he would make his camel kneel down on the plain which is to the eastern border of the valley. Then, he would rest there in the latter period of the night until morning. The place was not near the mosque which is on rocks, nor on the hillock where the mosque lies. There was a water channel nearby, beside which ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) would pray. In its midst were mounds of sand. The Messenger of Allāh (saw) would offer Prayer there. The flood from Baṭḥāʾ levelled it out so much so that the spot where ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) would pray became buried.
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 485
And ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) narrated to him that the Prophet (saw) offered Prayer at the site of the small mosque, which lies before the mosque of Sharaf al-Rawḥāʾ. And ʿAbd Allāh (r.a) knew of the place where the Prophet (saw) had prayed. He would say: ‘When you stand to pray in the mosque, it is located to your right side. This mosque sits on the right side of the road as you travel towards Makkah. There is approximately a stone’s throw between this mosque and the larger one.’
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 486
And that ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) would pray towards the mound which is near the end of al-Rawḥāʾ. One side of this mound ends at the edge of the road, near a mosque which lies between it and the end [of al-Rawhāʾ], as you head towards Makkah. A mosque was [later] built there. ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) would not pray in that mosque. He would leave it on his left and behind him, and would pray in front of it, towards the mound. ʿAbd Allāh (r.a) would leave al-Rawḥāʾ and would not offer Ẓuhr until he arrived at that place; then he would offer the Ẓuhr Prayer there. Whenever he came from Makkah and passed by it an hour before morning, or in the early dawn, he would stop there until he had offered his Morning Prayer.
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 487
ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) related to him [Nāfiʿ] that the Prophet (saw) would come to rest under a large tree before al-Ruwaithah on the right side of the road, where the road meets a flat, open area. Then, he would emerge from a mound two miles before Barīd al-Ruwaithah. The top of the tree had broken and bent inward upon itself, though it remained standing on its trunk and its trunk had many protrusions.
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 488
And ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) mentioned to him that the Prophet (saw) prayed on the edge of the mound which was behind al-ʿArj, as you headed towards higher ground. Near the mosque there, on the right side of the road, were two or three graves, and on the graves were heaps of stones near the stones of the road. ʿAbd Allāh (r.a) would leave al-ʿArj between these roadside stones after the sun had declined at midday, and he would offer the Ẓuhr Prayer in that mosque.
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 489
And ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) narrated to him that the Messenger of Allāh (saw) dismounted by some trees, on the left side of the road, in a streambed before Harshá. That streambed bordered the outskirts of Harshá, with a distance of roughly a bowshot between it and the road. ʿAbd Allāh [ibn ʿUmar] (r.a) would offer Prayer towards a tree – the nearest of those trees to the road – and it was the tallest of them.
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 490
And ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) related to him that the Prophet (saw) would halt in the streambed on the near side of Marr al-Ẓahrān towards Madīnah, when you descended from al-Ṣafrāwāt. He would dismount in the bed of that streambed, on the left-side of the road as you head towards Makkah. There was no more than a stone’s throw between the Messenger of Allāh’s place of rest and the road.
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 491
And ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar (r.a) narrated to him that the Prophet (saw) would stop at Dhī Ṭuwá and spend the night there until morning when he came to Makkah, and he would offer the Morning Prayer there. The place of worship of the Messenger of Allāh (saw) was on a rugged mound; it was not in the mosque that had been built there, but below it on that rugged mound.
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat
Sahih al-Bukhari 492
And ʿAbd Allāh [ibn ʿUmar] (r.a) narrated to him that the Prophet (saw) faced the Kaʿbah, aligning himself with the two peaks of the mountain that lay between him and the tall mountain. Thus, he kept the mosque that was later built there to his left, at the edge of the mound. And the place of Prayer of the Prophet (saw) was below it, on the black mound. One should leave 10 cubits or so from the mound. Then, one would pray facing the two peaks of the mountain between one and the Kaʿbah.
Translation: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat