Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 34701 — The mosque of Kufah and its virtue

Al-Aswad (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Ka'b met me in Bayt al-Maqdis and asked: 'Where have you come from?' I said: 'From the congregational mosque of Kufah.' He said: 'That I should have come from where you have come is dearer to me than giving two thousand dinars in charity, placing each dinar of them in the hand of each poor person.' Then he swore an oath and said: 'That mosque is at the very middle of the earth, like the bottom of a basin.'"