What is the reward of performing Salah in Masjidul Aqsa?
Answer:
Masjidul Aqsa is the third most virtuous masjid on earth.
Rasulullah (sallallahu’alayhi wasallam) has encouraged salah therein in several narrations, one of which is cited below:
Sayyiduna Abud Darda (radiyallahu’anhu) reports that Rasulullah (sallallahu’alayhi wasallam) said as part of a longer Hadith: ‘…One salah in the Masjid of Baytul Muqaddas (Masjidul Aqsa) is better than five hundred Salahs elsewhere.’
(Musnad Bazzar, Hadith: 4142 and Al-Mu’jamul Kabir. Also see Targhib, Hadith: 1776 and Mawsu’ah ibn Hajar, vol. 2 pg. 308)
‘Allamah Haythami (rahimahullah) has declared the Hadith as sound (hasan).
(Majma’uz Zawaid, vol. 4 pg. 7)
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And Allah Ta’ala Knows best,
Answered by: Moulana Muhammad Abasoomar