Abu Huraira reported God's Messenger as saying,“The space between my house and my pulpit is one of the gardens of paradise, and my pulpit is upon my tank.”(Bukhari and Muslim.)

Ibn ‘Umar said that the Prophet used to go to the mosque in Quba'* every Saturday, walking and riding, and he would pray two rak'as in it. * The village outside Medina where the Prophet stayed a few days before entering Medina at the time of the Hijra. Before leaving he laid the foundations of a mosque there. Al-Qur’an; 9:108 is said to refer to this mosque. In the preceding verse reference is made to another mosque which had been built in a spirit of opposition. (Bukhari and Muslim.)

Abu Huraira reported God’s Messenger as saying,“The parts of the land dearest to God are its mosques, and the parts most hateful to God are its markets.”Muslim transmitted it.

‘Uthman reported God's Messenger as saying,“If anyone builds a mosque for God, God will build a house for him in paradise.”(Bukhari and Muslim.)

Abu Huraira reported God’s Messenger as saying,“If anyone goes out in the morning or in the evening to the mosque, God will prepare for him his food in paradise as often as he goes out in the morning or in the evening.”(Bukhari and Muslim.)

Abu Musa reported God’s Messenger as saying,“The one who will receive the greatest reward for prayer is he who lives farthest away, and he who has farthest to walk and he who waits for the prayer to observe it with the imam will have a greater reward than the one who observes it and then goes to sleep.”(Bukhari and Muslim.)

Jabir said that the area round the mosque was vacant and that the Banu Salima wanted to move near the mosque, but when the Prophet heard of that he said to them,“I have heard that you want to move near the mosque.”They replied,“Yes, Messenger of God, that was our desire.”He said,“Banu Salima, if you keep to your present houses, your footprints will be recorded; if you keep to your present houses, your footprints will be recorded.”* * I.e. you will receive a reward for the distance you have to go to the mosque. Muslim transmitted it.

Abu Huraira reported God’s Messenger as saying,“There are seven whom God will cover with His shade on the day when there will be no shade but His:a just imam; a young man who grows up worshipping God; a man whose heart is attached to the mosque from the time he leaves it till he returns to it; two men who love one another for God's sake, meeting thus and separating thus; a man who remembers God in solitude, his eyes pouring forth tears; a man who, when accosted by a woman of rank and beauty, says, ‘I fear God’; and a man who gives alms concealing it so that his left hand does not know what his right hand bestows.”(Bukhari and Muslim.)

He also reported God’s Messenger as saying,“A man's prayer in company is twenty-five times as valuable as his prayer in his house and his market, for when he performs ablution, doing it well, then goes out to the mosque, having no other reason than prayer for going out, he does not take a step without being raised a degree for it and having a sin remitted for it, and when he prays the angels continue to invoke blessings on him as long as he is in his place of prayer, saying, ‘God bless him; God show mercy to him.’ And each of you continues to be engaged in prayer as long as he is waiting for the prayer.”In a version he said,“When he enters the mosque prayer holds him fast.”And he added in the invocation of the angels,“O God, forgive him, O God, turn towards him, as long as he does not do any harm in it and as long as he does not do anything unseemly in it.”(Bukhari and Muslim.)

Abu Usaid reported God's Messenger as saying:When any of you enters the mosque he should say,“O God, open to me the gates of Thy mercy,“and when he goes out he should say“O God, I ask Thee out of Thine abundance.”Muslim transmitted it.