Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 7744 — Praying in Bait al-Maqdis

Al-Aswad said: Ka'b met me in Bayt al-Maqdis and asked me: Where have you come from? I said: From the mosque of Kufah. He said: To be where you have come from is dearer to me than giving a thousand dinars in charity, placing each dinar in the hand of a poor person. Then he swore that that place is in the middle of the earth, like the centre of a basin.