The mosques which are on the way to Al-Madina and the places where the Prophet ﷺ had offered Salat (prayers)

Narrated Fudail bin Sulaiman: Musa bin `Uqba said, "I saw Salim bin `Abdullah looking for some places on the way and prayed there. He narrated that his father used to pray there, and had seen the Prophet praying at those very places." Narrated Nafi` on the authority of Ibn `Umar who said, "I used to pray at those places." Musa the narrator added, "I asked Salim on which he said, 'I agree with Nafi` concerning those places, except the mosque situated at the place called Sharaf Ar-Rawha."

Narrated Nafi`: `Abdullah (bin `Umar) told me that whenever Allah's Apostle went to perform `Umra, and during his Hajj when he performed Hajj, he used to dismount at Dhul-Hulaifa under a Samura (a kind of thorny tree) at the place where the mosque of Dhul-Hulaifa now stands. And whenever he returned on that road from a Ghazwa (holy battle), or from Hajj or `Umra, he used to descend into the bed of a valley, and when he came up from the bed of the valley, he would make his camel kneel at Al-Batha' (a wide watercourse of pebbles and sand) on the eastern bank of the valley and rest there at night till morning. That place was not near the mosque built of stones, nor on the hillock on which the mosque stands. There was a deep channel there near which `Abdullah used to pray; in it there were sand-hills, and Allah's Apostle used to pray there. Then the flood swept the pebbles of Al-Batha' over it till it buried the place where `Abdullah used to pray.

`Abdullah bin `Umar also told (Nafi`) that the Prophet prayed at the place where the small mosque now stands, short of the mosque at Sharaf Ar-Rawha'. `Abdullah knew the place where the Prophet had prayed and used to say, "It is there, on your right, when you stand to pray in the mosque." That mosque is on the right edge of the road as you go to Mecca, and the distance between it and the big mosque is a stone's throw or so.

Ibn `Umar used to pray facing the small mountain ('Irq) at the end of Ar-Rawha'. The end of that mountain reaches the edge of the road, short of the mosque that lies between it and the end of Ar-Rawha', as you go to Mecca. A mosque has been built there, but `Abdullah bin `Umar did not pray in that mosque; he used to leave it on his left and behind him and pray ahead of it, facing the mountain itself. `Abdullah used to set out from Ar-Rawha' and would not offer the Zuhr prayer till he reached that place, and then he offered the Zuhr prayer there. And when he was coming back from Mecca, if he passed by it an hour before dawn or at the end of the last part of the night, he would stop and rest there till he offered the Fajr prayer.

`Abdullah (bin `Umar) also told (Nafi`) that the Prophet used to dismount under a huge tree short of Ar-Ruwaitha, on the right side of the road and facing it, in a wide, soft and level place, till he came out of a hillock about two miles short of the post-station of Ar-Ruwaitha. The upper part of that tree has broken off and bent down into its middle, and it stands on its trunk, and around its trunk there are many sand-hills.

`Abdullah bin `Umar also told (Nafi`) that the Prophet prayed at the edge of a watercourse behind Al-`Arj as you go towards a mountain. Near that mosque there are two or three graves with heaps of stones over them, on the right of the road beside the big rocks of the road. Between those rocks `Abdullah used to proceed from Al-`Arj after the sun had declined at midday, and he would offer the Zuhr prayer in that mosque.

`Abdullah bin `Umar also told (Nafi`) that Allah's Apostle dismounted near some big trees on the left of the road, in a watercourse short of Harsha. That watercourse adjoins the edge of Harsha, and the distance between it and the road is about an arrow-shot. `Abdullah used to pray facing the tree that was the nearest of those trees to the road and the tallest of them.

Narrated Nafi`: `Abdullah bin `Umar further told me that the Prophet used to dismount at the water-course in the low area of Marr-az-Zahran, opposite Medina, when he came down from As-Safrawat. He used to dismount in the middle of that water-course on the left of the road, while one is on his way to Mecca, and between the place where Allah's Apostle used to dismount and the road there was only a stone's throw.

Narrated Nafi`: `Abdullah bin `Umar further told me that the Prophet used to dismount at Dhi-Tuwa and stay there overnight till morning, and then offer the Fajr prayer when he came to Mecca. The praying place of Allah's Apostle there was on a big mound, not in the mosque which has been built there, but lower than that on a big mound.

Narrated Nafi`: `Abdullah bin `Umar further told me that the Prophet faced the two passes of the mountain which lies between him and the long mountain towards the Ka`ba, and he kept the mosque which has been built there to the left of his praying place, at the side of the mound. The praying place of the Prophet was lower than it on the black mound. Leave about ten cubits from the mound and then pray facing the two passes of the mountain which is between you and the Ka`ba.