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الفتح الربانی
Fath al-Rabbani
أبواب المساجدChapters on Mosques
بَابُ مُدَّةِ اسْتِقْبَالِ بَيْتِ الْمَقْدِسِ وَتَحْوِيلِ الْقِبْلَةِ مِنْهُ إِلَى الْكَعْبَةِChapter on the Period of Facing Jerusalem and Changing the Qiblah to the Kaaba
Hadith 1450
اُردوEn
عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا قَالَ: بَيْنَمَا النَّاسُ بِقُبَاءٍ فِي صَلَاةِ الصُّبْحِ إِذْ أَتَاهُمْ آتٍ فَقَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ أُنْزِلَ عَلَيْهِ قُرْآنٌ اللَّيْلَةَ، وَقَدْ أُمِرَ أَنْ يَسْتَقْبِلَ الْكَعْبَةَ فَاسْتَقْبِلُوهَا وَكَانَتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ إِلَى الشَّامِ فَاسْتَدَارُوا إِلَى الْكَعْبَةِ
Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) says that some people in Quba were performing the Fajr prayer when a person came to them and said: Last night, Qur’an was revealed to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), according to which he has been commanded to face the Ka’bah, so you too should turn towards it. Their faces were towards Shaam (i.e., Bayt al-Maqdis), but upon hearing this announcement, they turned towards the Ka’bah.
Brief Explanation
Benefits: … These ahadith also establish that if a person, due to ignorance or lack of understanding, begins (the prayer) facing a direction other than the qiblah, his prayer will still be valid, and if during the prayer he comes to know (the correct direction), he should, while continuing the prayer, turn towards the qiblah. In matters of Shari‘ah rulings, a solitary report (khabar wahid) is a definitive proof; the group of noble Companions (radi Allahu anhum) changed their qiblah based on the report of a single person. The blessed hadith is also a proof just like the Noble Qur’an, because the designation of Bayt al-Maqdis as the qiblah is not mentioned anywhere in the Noble Qur’an, whereas the Companions (radi Allahu anhum) continued to pray facing Bayt al-Maqdis for sixteen or seventeen months—this practice was based on the guidance of ahadith.
