Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Aswad narrates that Hazrat Ka'b met me in Bayt al-Maqdis. He asked me, "Where have you come from?" I replied, "From the mosque of Kufa." He said, "To be in the place from where you have come is more beloved to me than having a thousand dinars, each of which I would place in the hand of a poor person as charity." Then he swore an oath and said, "That place is like the center of a platter in the middle of the earth."