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«إن رسول الله قد أنزل عليه الليلة قرآن، وقد أمر أن يستقبل الكعبة فاستقبلوها»
A verbatim excerpt of the text, forty words at most; the full text is in the edition cited under sources
Chain of transmission
- Malik ibn Anas
- Abdallah ibn Dinar
- Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab
- Muhammad
Summary
The first hadith in the chapter on the qibla. Yahya transmits from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar from Abdullah ibn Umar: while people at Quba were praying the dawn prayer, a messenger came and said that the Prophet ﷺ had received a Qur'anic revelation that night and had been ordered to face the Ka'ba, so they faced it, for their faces had been toward Syria, and they turned to the Ka'ba. The editor cites al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Nasa'i, Ahmad, Ibn Hibban, Ibn Khuzayma, Abu Awana, al-Shafi'i, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan and al-Bayhaqi, and refers to al-Tamhid. 1
Place in the museum
Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Prayer. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Muhammad, Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab, Abdallah ibn Dinar, Quba, the Quba Mosque, the Ka'ba and the change of the qibla. Built on in the chapters on prayer.
Connections
- Part of
- Muwatta, Book of Prayer
- Mentions
- Muhammad· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Abdallah ibn Dinar· Quba· Quba Mosque· The Kaaba· The change of the qibla
- Basis for
- Salah (the prescribed prayer)
People and things also explored
Muwatta 461· Muwatta 21· Muwatta 189· Muwatta 194· Muwatta 196· Muwatta 235· Muwatta 270· Muwatta 319
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf) , p.271
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islam.museum contributors. “Muwatta 524”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muwatta-1-524/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.