[IL] Excellence of Performing Solah at the Mosque

Islamic Researchers

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.

Muslims should not fail to go to the mosque everyday and night and should love being there unless it is not permissable for some obvious reasons. `Abdullah ibn Mas`ud said: “No one should miss the Prayer at the mosque except the ill and the hypocrites.” He also added that the Prophet SAW taught us the means to guidance and one of these means is praying at the mosque.

With regard to your question, we cite what Sheikh Sayyed Sabiq states in his well-known book Fiqh Us-Sunnah:

1 - Abu Hurairah reported that the Prophet SAW said, “If anyone goes back and forth to the mosque [to attend the Prayers], Allah will prepare for him a feast in Paradise as often as he goes back and forth” (Ahmad, Al-Bukhari, and Muslim).

2 - Abu Sa`id reported that the Prophet SAW said, “If you see a man frequenting the mosque, then testify that he has faith. As Allah says, ‘The attendants of Allah’s mosque are those who believe in Allah and the last day (At-Tawbah: 18)’” [Ahmad, Ibn Majah, Ibn Khuzaimah, Ibn Hibban, and At-Tirmidzi].

3 - Muslim records, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, that the Messenger of Allah SAW said, “If anyone purifies himself in his house, and then walks to one of the houses of Allah to fulfill one of the obligations laid down by Allah, then [each one] of his steps will erase one of his sins and the next will raise his degrees.”

4 - Abu Ad-Darda’ reported that the Messenger of Allah SAW said, “The mosque is a house for every pious person, and Allah provides everyone whose house is the mosque with comfort, leisure, and a path to Allah’s pleasure, to Paradise” [At-Tabarani and Al-Bazzar].

Allah Almighty knows best.

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