Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) the mosque was made of mud bricks, its roof of palm stalks and its pillars of palm trunks. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) added nothing to it, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) enlarged it somewhat, but built it with palm trunks and stalks just the same. Then Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) changed it: he enlarged it greatly, built its walls and pillars of carved and engraved stone, and made its roof of teak wood.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4294
Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to Madinah and stayed for fourteen days with the tribe of Amr bin Awf in the upper part of Madinah. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) sent for Banu al-Najjar, and they came armed with their swords. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: It is as if I can see the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) on his she-camel, with Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) riding behind him and the chiefs of Banu al-Najjar around him (peace and blessings be upon him), until he (peace and blessings be upon him) dismounted in the courtyard of Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) would pray wherever the time of prayer came upon him, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) would also pray in sheepfolds. He (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that the mosque be built and sent word to Banu al-Najjar: "Take the price of this land of yours," but they refused to accept any price. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: In that land there were graves of the polytheists, ruins and palm trees. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that the graves of the polytheists be dug up, and they were dug up; the ruins were levelled and the palm trees were cut down. They lined up the palm trunks as the qiblah wall of the mosque and made its doorposts of stone. They carried the stones, reciting verses, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was with them: 'Allahumma la khayra illa khayru al-akhirah, fansuri al-Ansara wa al-Muhajirah' (O Allah, there is no good except the good of the Hereafter, so help the Ansar and the Muhajirun).
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4295
Umm Mansur Safiyyah bint Shaybah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: A woman of Banu Sulaym, who had delivered most of the people of our household, told me that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent for Uthman bin Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "When I entered the House, I saw the two horns of the ram, and I forgot to order you to cover them, for it is not fitting that there be anything in the House that distracts a person praying."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4297
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:ضعيف
Hadith Takhrij«ضعيف۔ اخرجه الفاكهي في اخبار مكة 237»
Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have not been commanded to build mosques lavishly." Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: You will surely adorn them as the Jews and the Christians did.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4298
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Hour will not be established until people vie in boasting about mosques."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4299
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:صحيح
Hadith Takhrij«صحيح۔ اخرجه احمد 3/134/12406، ابوداؤد 449»
Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Build mosques, and build them without battlements."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4300
Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have been commanded to build mosques without battlements."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4301
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "We were commanded to build mosques without battlements, and cities with battlements."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4303
Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Beware of these places of slaughter," meaning the mihrabs.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4304
It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by some people who had laid the foundations of a mosque in order to build it. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Make it so spacious that you can all fit in it." The narrator said: So they made it more spacious.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4305
Sayyiduna Abu Qatadah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that he (peace and blessings be upon him) came to some of the Ansar who were building a mosque for themselves. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Make it so spacious that you can all fit in it."
There is disagreement over the chain of this hadith.
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4306
Uthman bin Abi al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded: "The mosque of Ta'if should be built at the place where their idols were."
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4307