Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If the religion were suspended at the Pleiades star, even then some people from Persia would surely acquire it from there.

Hazrat Qais, may Allah have mercy on him, narrates that Hazrat Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, allotted a share of five thousand each to the Arab who participated in Badr and to his slave, and said: I will surely give preference to the people of Arabia over others.

Hazrat Abu al-Kanood (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that Hazrat Khabbab bin Al-Aratt (may Allah be pleased with him) said regarding the reason for the revelation of this verse: The verse { وَلاَ تَطْرُدِ الَّذِینَ یَدْعُونَ رَبَّہُمْ بِالْغَدَاۃِ وَالْعَشِیِّ یُرِیدُونَ وَجْہَہُ } that Aqra’ bin Habis al-Tamimi and ‘Uyainah bin Hisn al-Fazari came and found the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) sitting with Hazrat Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him), Hazrat Ammar (may Allah be pleased with him), Hazrat Suhaib (may Allah be pleased with him), and Hazrat Khabbab bin Al-Aratt (may Allah be pleased with him), who were the weakest among the Muslims. They looked down upon us with contempt. Then these people came to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and took him aside in private and said: We would like you to appoint a separate gathering for us so that the Arabs may know of our superiority because the delegations of the Arabs come to you and we feel ashamed that they see us sitting with these slaves. Therefore, when we come to you, please remove these people from our presence, and when we are finished, then if you wish, you may sit with them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Yes! That is fine, they said. They said: Write this down for us. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called for a document so that this could be written, and called Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) to write it. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to write this, we were sitting in a corner when Hazrat Jibreel (peace be upon him) descended with these verses: from { وَلاَ تَطْرُدِ الَّذِینَ یَدْعُونَ رَبَّہُمْ بِالْغَدَاۃِ وَالْعَشِیِّ یُرِیدُونَ وَجْہَہُ } to { فَتَطْرُدَہُمْ فَتَکُونَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِینَ }.

Habbah (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that a man came to Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "Indeed, I have bought a camel and prepared my travel provisions, and I intend to go to Bayt al-Maqdis." Upon this, he (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Sell your camel and pray in this mosque." Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "That is, in the mosque of Kufa... because after the Sacred Mosque, there is no mosque more beloved to me than this one."

Hazrat Aswad (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates that Hazrat Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him) met me in Bayt al-Maqdis and asked: "Where have you come from?" I replied: "From the central mosque of Kufa." He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I too have come from there, from the place you have come from. And that place is more beloved to me than giving two thousand dinars in charity and placing each dinar in the hand of every needy person." Then, taking an oath, he said: "Surely that mosque is exactly in the middle of the earth, just as the base of a tray is."

Hazrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever comes to this mosque of mine... Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says this means the mosque of Madinah Munawwarah... and he comes only to teach something good or to learn it, then that person is in the rank of one who strives in the path of Allah. And whoever comes for any other purpose, then he is in the rank of one who looks at someone else's belongings.

Hazrat Maymunah (may Allah be pleased with her), the Mother of the Believers, narrates that I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Offering one prayer in this mosque of mine — that is, in the Prophet’s Mosque صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم — is better than a thousand prayers in any other mosque, except for the mosque of Makkah. Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says: The people of Egypt have also narrated this hadith, but in their chain of narration, the mention of Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) is not included.

34704 - Abu Bakr said: And the narrators of the people of Egypt do not include Ibn Abbas (1).

Hazrat Ubayy bin Ka'b (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The mosque which was founded on piety is my mosque.

Hazrat Usaid bin Zuhair Ansari, may Allah be pleased with him, who is among the companions of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), narrates that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Performing prayer in the Mosque of Quba is equal in reward to performing Umrah.