Narrated Abdullah ibn Masud: We proceeded with the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم on the occasion of al-Hudaybiyyah. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: Who will keep watch for us? Bilal said: I (shall do). The overslept till the sun arose. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم awoke and said: Do as you used to do (i. e. offer prayer as usual). Then we did accordingly. He said: Anyone who oversleeps or forgets (prayer) should do similarly.
Read More..Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: I was not commanded to build high mosques. Ibn Abbas said: You will certainly adorn them as the Jews and Christians did.
Read More..Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: The Last Hour will not come until people vie with one another about mosques.
Read More..Narrated Uthman ibn Abul As: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم commanded him to build a mosque at Taif where the idols were placed.
Read More..Abdullah bin Umar reported: The mosque (of the Prophet) during his lifetime was built with bricks, its roof with branches of the palm-tree, and its pillars with palm-wood, as Mujahid said: Abu Bakr did not add anything to it. But Umar added to it; he built as it was built during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم with bricks and branches, and he changed its pillars. Mujahid said: Its pillars were made of wood. Uthman changed it altogether with increasing addition. He built its walls with decorated stone and lime. And he built the pillars with decorated stone and its roof with teak. Mujahid said: Its roof was made of teak. Abu Dawud said: Al-Qassah means lime used as mortar.
Read More..Ibn Umar reported: The pillars of the mosque of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم during the life time of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم were made of the trunks of the palm-tree; they covered from the above by twigs of the palm-tree; they decayed during the caliphate of Abu Bakr. He built it afresh with trunks and twigs of the palm-tree. But they again decayed during the caliphate of Uthman. He, therefore, built it with bricks. That survives until today.
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