With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 288
288 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n Jerusalem) and last, Masjid al-Nabawi (in Madinah). 284 He then goes on to support his point with the following had ī th : Qaza’a Maul ā (freed slave of) Ziy ā d said: “I heard Ab ū Sa‘ ī d Al-Khudr ī ra narrating four things from the Prophet sa and I appreciated them very much. He said, conveying the words of the Prophet sa , (1) ‘A woman should not go on a two-day journey except with her husband or a Dh ī Mahram. (2) No fasting is permissible on two days: ‘ Ī dul Fitr and ‘ Ī dul Adh ā. (3) No prayer after two prayers, i. e. after the Fajr prayer till the sun rises and after the ‘Asr prayer till the sun sets. (4) Do not prepare yourself for a journey except to three Mosques: Al-Masjid-Al-Haram, the Mosque of Aqsa (Jerusalem), and my Mosque’. ” 285 Then, he says, “. . . the three masjids are specified as the only masjids worth traveling for and Masjid an-Nabawi is the آخر (last) to be built. ” This is a serious disaster in scholarship and is some of Khan’s most incoherent reasoning concocted in his book! He has tried to put together two completely unrelated statements of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa to reach a faulty conclusion! In an attempt to prove that the Holy Prophet sa spoke of Masjid-an-Nabw ī as the last mosque, he has presented a had ī th where the Holy Prophet sa only happened to mention Masjid-an- Nabw ī at the end of his sentence. There are other similar ah ā d ī th 284 Ibid. 285 Sah ī h Bukh ā r ī , Volume 2, Book 21, Had ī th Number 288