وَكَانَ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ حَيْثُ أَدْرَكَتْهُ الصَّلاَةُ...
وَكَانَ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ حَيْثُ أَدْرَكَتْهُ الصَّلاَةُ، وَيُصَلِّي فِي مَرَابِضِ الْغَنَمِ، وَأَنَّهُ أَمَرَ بِبِنَاءِ الْمَسْجِدِ، And he -saww used to love to pray Salat wherever he -saww came across (the time of) the Salat; and he -saww prayed Salat in an enclosure of the sheep, and he -saww ordered with building the Masjid.
فَأَرْسَلَ إِلَى مَلإٍ مِنْ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ فَقَالَ ” يَا بَنِي النَّجَّارِ ثَامِنُونِي بِحَائِطِكُمْ هَذَا ”. قَالُوا لاَ وَاللَّهِ، لاَ نَطْلُبُ ثَمَنَهُ إِلاَّ إِلَى اللَّهِ. He -saww sent a message to an assembly from the clan of Al-Nahhar. He -saww said: ‘O clan of Al-Najjar! Name me -saww a price for this walled (land) of yours!’ They said, ‘No, by Allah -azwj !
We do not seek its price except to Allah -azwj !’ فَقَالَ أَنَسٌ فَكَانَ فِيهِ مَا أَقُولُ لَكُمْ، قُبُورُ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، وَفِيهِ خَرِبٌ، وَفِيهِ نَخْلٌ، فَأَمَرَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِقُبُورِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ فَنُبِشَتْ، ثُمَّ بِالْخَرِبِ فَسُوِّيَتْ، وَبِالنَّخْلِ فَقُطِعَ، Anas said, ‘There were in it what I am saying to you – graves of the Polytheists, and in it were ruins, and in it were palm trees.
The Prophet -saww , may the Salawaat of Allah -azwj and Greetings be upon him -saww , ordered with the graves of the Polytheists, so these were exhumed (demolished), and with the ruins, so it was levelled, and with the palm trees, so these were cut down.
فَصَفُّوا النَّخْلَ قِبْلَةَ الْمَسْجِدِ، وَجَعَلُوا عِضَادَتَيْهِ الْحِجَارَةَ، وَجَعَلُوا يَنْقُلُونَ الصَّخْرَ، وَهُمْ يَرْتَجِزُونَ، وَالنَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم مَعَهُمْ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ ” اللَّهُمَّ لاَ خَيْرَ إِلاَّ خَيْرُ الآخِرَهْ فَاغْفِرْ لِلأَنْصَارِ وَالْمُهَاجِرَهْ ” So, they aligned the palm trees in front of the Masjid, and they made the stones as it’s jambs, and they were transporting the stones, and they were reciting war poems, and the Prophet -saww , may the Salawaat of Allah -azwj and the Greetings be upon him -saww were (carrying stones) with them, and he -saww was saying: ‘O Allah -azwj !
There is no good except good of the Hereafter, so Forgive the Helpers and the Emigrants’’. [23] Comments: 1 – The Hadeeth is to do with one incident in the life of Rasool-Allah -saww , which was at the end of the Hijrah to Al Medina and his -saww intent to buy a piece of land to build a Masjid on it. 2 – This means that the graves to be demolished were specifically the ones on that small plot of land he -saww wanted to buy.
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